Author: Erin Elizabeth

Since 2004, Florida beaches have repeatedly experienced terrible toxic algae that have ruined their beautiful coastline. I don’t know about you but I’m sick of it. Remember the algae blooms of 2013? The event was so severe it became known as ‘Toxic Summer’? Well, 2016’s outbreak “so thoroughly spread through delicate estuaries on both coasts that Florida officials declared a state of emergency in four counties. Toxic sludge has killed fish, shellfish, and at least one manatee and has sickened people who have touched it.” 1 RELATED ARTICLE: Public blasts DEP over new water toxins limits During 2016’s toxic summer,...

Human attempts to manipulate the planet, its plants and animals, the atmosphere, or otherwise bending nature for purposes arguably always selfish do not always go according to plan — and the killer bee might be the penultimate evidentiary case-in-point. Killer bees did not come to exist through a freakish yet naturally-occurring mutation — rather, the deadly insects resulted from an innocuous attempt by scientists to create a higher production honey bee. RELATED ARTICLES: Battered Bees and the Threat to Our Food EPA says pesticide doing harm to bees Until that experiment took a horrifying turn for the worse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_0iewnC6cw...