1. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a climate denier. He has instructed the armed forces to ignore climate impacts, and has demanded the Pentagon cut funding on military installations aimed at combating the effects of climate change, including at bases in Florida. 2. The Montbrook Fossil Site, roughly 45 minutes south of Gainesville in Levy County, has become one of the most globally significant paleontological digs in the world. Jonathan Bloch runs the site for the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida. He joins us on this episode to discuss the site's discovery, what it has revealed, and how to volunteer there.
Images: Florida Museum of Natural History.
Craig Pittman is the award-winning author of Oh, Florida!: How America’s Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country, The Scent of Scandal, Cat Tale, Manatee Insanity and The State You’re In, and co-author of Paving Paradise. Born in Pensacola, he graduated from Troy State University in Alabama, where his muckraking work for the student paper prompted an agitated dean to label him “the most destructive force on campus.” Since then he has covered a variety of newspaper beats and quite a few natural disasters, including hurricanes, wildfires and the Florida Legislature.
