Author: Reuters, ST. PETERSBURG, Florida

  • Cold weather killing Florida’s manatees

    Unusually cold weather last winter killed Florida’s endangered manatees at a record rate, a report said on Friday. During 2010, a record 699 manatees have died in Florida, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Research Institute. Of those, 244 were attributed to cold weather and many of the 271 undetermined deaths were…