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VoLo Foundation founders reflect on eighth Climate Correction Conference

Tom Bayles

Every year, VoLo Foundation’s Climate Correction Conference gets somewhat glitzier, its speakers a bit more prestigious, the event a little better attended. One day of main events has become three. Longer presentations have been tightened to fit everyone onto the schedule. More chairs and more tables are brought out because the conference has grown from 200 people last year to 250 this year. The theme this year centered around the notion that the environment has already engineered answers to the climate challenges facing the planet.

Thais Lopez Vogel and David Vogel, shown at the 2023 event, are co-founders of VoLo Foundation and organizers of the eighth annual Climate Correction Conference this week in Orlando, which in a little more than eight years has grown from a small gathering of academics, researchers, and nonprofit leaders to become a two-day event addressing causes and "science-based solutions" to slow down, if no reverse, global warming and its effects

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Climate Correction Conference calling for faster action and stronger leadership to combat global warming

Tom Bayles

Climate Correction Conference has grown from a small gathering of academics, researchers, and nonprofit leaders to become a two-day event addressing causes and solutions to slow down, if not reverse, global warming and its effects

Speaking in Spanish at VoLo Foundation's 2025 Climate Corrections conference, Bruno Olmedo Quiroga discusses his efforts to encourage writers, major streamers, and studios to include climate narratives that resonate with audiences and drive cultural change

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VoLo Foundation brings a bit of Hollywood to Orlando at annual Climate Correction conference

Tom Bayles

VoLo Foundation's annual climate change conference highlighted several of the organization's efforts to bring the media even further into the climate change solutions discussion

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VoLo Foundation climate conference grows in prestige

Tom Bayles

Climate change is made clearer by the fact that environmental conditions are becoming more confusing, VoLo Foundation’s fledgling annual climate correction conference is coming into its own at just the right time.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced $350 million in state-funded grants during the last two months alone for water-quality improvement initiatives throughout Florida to keep signs like this one from summer 2023 appearing on the nightly network TV news

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DeSantis spending heavily on water-quality improvements throughout Florida

Tom Bayles

DeSantis has announced more than $340 million in grants to cities and counties throughout Florida in recent months to mitigate the effects and impacts of red tide and blue-green algae.

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Water Quality Report: Everglades overseer

Tom Bayles

Col. James Booth is in charge of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Florida, which means he is also the agency’s official in charge of Everglades restoration today. He does what he is supposed to do in terms of being available to the public, but that doesn't mean he gets a pass from the media.

In a rarity, a green sea turtle appears to have survived for a year in a freshwater pond near Tarpon Cove. If not placed there recently, the turtle as a hatchling was possibly swept inland by Hurricane Ian in September 2022 and found a way to survive in the freshwater. After a check-up, the turtle was released into a nearby saltwater estuary

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Juvenile green sea turtle, perhaps blown inland by Hurricane Ian, found thriving in freshwater pond

Tom Bayles

Young green sea turtle found in a freshwater retention pond near RV park in Fort Myers.The discovery of the year-old sea turtle matches one-year mark since Hurricane Ian

Many locals expected heavy blue-green algae outbreak in Southwest Florida this summer like this one pictured above in the St. John's River recently

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Blue-green algae health warnings diminishing on Caloosahatchee River

Tom Bayles

The Florida Department of Health in Lee County canceled five health warnings due to harmful algal blooms in the Caloosahatchee River

A 10-year effort is now published in the journal Management of Biological Invasions by wildlife biologists from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences revealing how a series of efforts and strategies led to successful control and removal of spectacled caimans in the Eastern Everglades. The animal resembles a smaller American alligator

Blueprint created for invasive species removal in Everglades

Tom Bayles

A coordinated series of efforts over 10 years to eradicate the spectacled caiman from the Western Everglades resulted in the removal of 251 of the creatures

The docks behind homes , are quieter than usual because of fears of blue green algae toxins.

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One health alert warning of blue-green algae in Lee County suspended after six weeks

Tom Bayles

In a welcome twist on current events in the world of toxic algae blooms, scientists re-testing water in a canal infected with blue-green algae since June discovered it’s gone.