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Florida has an iguana problem and the coldest winter in years, so it has euthanized more than 5,000 frozen iguanas

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In the Iberian Peninsula we are having one of the winters with more rainfall in recent yearsbut in the United States they are not exactly having a mild winter either. New York has arrived register colder than in Antarctica and not even the state of the sun has been saved: Florida has broken a cold record of more than 100 years. Thus, Miami or West Palm Beach have fallen below 0°C, something that It hasn’t happened since 1909. This extreme cold literally freezes the iguanas. And that has made it very easy for the Florida authorities to “euthanasia” 5,195 specimens Florida has a serious problem with iguanas. As happens in Spain with the catfishes either in Italy with blue crabs (among other parts of the Mediterranean), the United States has invasive species like the Asian carp, which bothers it so much that They have come to electrify the riversor the iguana, which mainly affects southern Florida. In addition to biodiversity problems derived from introducing an outside species into an ecosystem, altering the trophic chain or that its feces are natural carriers of salmonellais that they constitute a real danger to infrastructure: they build burrows up to 24 meters deep, damaging sea walls (a 1.8 million dollar problem in West Palm Beach), building foundations and even blackouts. Not to mention the risk that an iguana falls from a tree to the head or the hood of your car. Friendly reminder that iguanas can come to measure two meters long and weigh more than 13 kg. It’s raining iguanas. Literally. You probably read the above with surprise because, well, from time to time a little bird falls, but a tremendous iguana is less common. The iguanas They arrived in Florida in the 1960s. and since then they have moved quietly through courtyards and canals. The Sunshine State has a subtropical climate and iguanas are cold-blooded reptiles, but for much of the year, they adapt. But winter comes, especially a winter as cold as this one, and the iguanas are stunned by the cold. They are ectothermic speciesthat is, their body temperature is strongly determined by the environment (they do not generate their heat, as mammals do), so they freeze. This cold stunning affects internal processes such as metabolism, breathing or heart rate. And this is what leads them to fall from trees because they are in standby and lose their grip. A chance to get rid of them. So the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has taken the opportunity to implement executive order 26-03which temporarily allows anyone to pick up one of those cold-stunned green iguanas without needing a permit to bring it to authorities. In the first two days of February, Residents brought 5,195 copies. Subsequently, they were sacrificed following American Veterinary Association guidelines (AMVA). Or from a technical point of view, they “euthanized” them. Animal welfare vs pest control. According to the FWCnon-native reptile species such as green iguanas or Burmese pythons are only protected by animal cruelty laws. The procedure is known as “euthanasia” insofar as the method of death must be irreversible, rapid and painless. Precisely at that moment in which they are lethargic is the moment considered the most humanitarian to act. In Xataka | The coypu, one of the 100 most harmful invasive species in the world, is at the doors of Barcelona In Xataka | The US has such a big problem with Asian carp in its rivers that it has decided something extreme: electrocute them Cover | Mason Jones

Elon Musk needs to launch Starship from Florida to accelerate his plans. The problem: up to 13,200 delayed flights

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The airplanes will have to get used to sharing airspace with the largest rocket in the world. Especially when Elon Musk’s starship disembark in Florida in a few months. Starship’s double landing. The arrival of Starship to Cabo Cañaveral promises to revolutionize a region that, although it is accustomed to rocket launches, has not lived anything the same. The key is the planned launch frequency and the double landing of the system: first that of the Super Heavy propeller, more than 70 meters high, and then that of the ship itself, more than 50 meters. Although the public debate has focused so far In the sonic boom That produces each of these rockets when returning from space, the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States has put on the table the possibility that Spacex’s plans to launch 120 starship a year delay between 8,800 and 13,200 commercial flights a year. Where those figures come from. According to him FAA reportthe launches and landings of the two stages of the rocket would force to divert the airplanes from the south of Florida to avoid the rocket trajectory. This could suppose delays for airports as important as those of Orlando, Miami, Tampa and Fort Lauderdale. Each launch would require the closure of airspace in periods ranging from 40 minutes to two hours, which in times of traffic could affect between 133 and 400 flights. The landing of the Starship ship, which would happen hours later, would cause a new closure of the airspace between 40 minutes and one hour, affecting another 400 or 600 commercial airplanes. Spacex’s posture. Spacex insists that these estimates are too conservative. The company has published A statement in which he affirms that the areas of danger for the planes defined in FAA studies “are extremely conservative by nature and are destined to capture a compound of the entire range of the worst possible scenarios, not an operation in the real world.” Spacex argues that, as happened with their Falcon 9 rockets, the areas of aerial and sea exclusion will be reduced as data of the launches accumulate and the reliability of Starship is demonstrated. In fact, the airspace that Falcon 9 forces to close for Starlink missions have been reduced by 66% since 2022. A future of shared skies. Although Starship is a special case, it is only the last new generation rocket that reaches the Florida space coast. Other companies like Blue Origin and ULA have already launched His new New Glenn rockets and Vulcan From Cabo Cañaveral. According to a Ornaldo Sentinel analysisFlorida could approach the 400 rocket releases a year by the end of the decade. But that democratized access to space may require patience at the airport terminal. Image | Spacex In Xataka | There is already a date for the last flight of the Megacohete Starship as we know it: v3, heat what you go out

Primary director at Florida is accused of organizing a party with 100 teenagers

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The director of the Roosevelt Elementary School, in Cocoa Beach, was arrested last Friday After a noisy party was reported in its residence in which there were allegedly around 100 young minors They were consuming alcohol on January 19. Police received a notice about the party organized by Elizabeth Hill-Brodigan, and when they arrived at the scene they found several teenagers drinking alcohol they had obtained from Hieleras inside the house. During the intervention, a young man suffered a medical emergency related to excessive alcohol consumption. Apparently, when medical services arrived to serve the sick teenager, Hill-Brodigan turned off the outer lights and quickly withdrew home, reported New York Post. For his part, another teenager was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol near the place of the event. Also, Karly Anderson, another teacher who works in the same school and also attended the party, approached the drunken officers and admitted her participation. According to Florida Today, Both educators face child negligence positions and for contributing to youth crime. Brevard school district response Brevard’s public schools have put both teachers under administrative license while the investigation is carried out. A district spokesman expressed concern about the accusations and reaffirmed his commitment to student security: “We are fully collaborating with the Cocoa Beach Police Department.” Hill-Brodigan assumed the position as director last May After more than two decades working for the school district. Throughout her career she has been recognized as a teacher of the year and has expressed her dedication to students and their families. However, this incident has questioned its professional reputation. Continue reading: – Woman with mental health problems indiscriminately hits young man in the face in the Manhattan subway– Teacher had a child with a 13 -year -old boy: scandal after arrest in New Jersey for a complaint on Facebook – Endignation by 11 -year -old girl in confusion for car theft in New York; 3 minors after detainees (Tagstotranslate) Florida

Winter storm spreads across southern US with ice and snow

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NEW ORLEANS— A massive storm of snow, sleet and freezing rain hit the southern United States on Wednesday, setting new records for snowfall and exposing the region to unaccustomed winter joys and dangers. From Texas and extending south to Florida and the North Carolina coast, snow and sleet caused ice accumulation in cities New Orleans, Atlanta and Jacksonville, Florida. In Alabama, the weight of the snow caused the dome of the Mobile Civic Center to collapse, which is scheduled for demolition to make way for a new arena for sporting events. At least eight deaths were attributed to the storm as temperatures settled below freezing with even colder wind chills. The arctic air also turned much of the north-central and eastern parts of the country into a freezer, causing hundreds of flights to be cancelled. Government offices remained closed, as did classrooms for more than a million students who are more accustomed to hurricane evacuations than snow days. New Englanders know what to do on days like these: Terry Fraser of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, didn’t have his windshield snow removal tool with him when he went out to visit his granddaughter in Brunswick, Georgia, so he used the card from a discount store to remove snow and ice from his rental van in a frozen hotel parking lot. “This is what we do up north when you don’t have a scraper,” Fraser said. “Hey, it works.” In Tallahassee, Florida, the Holmes family set their alarms for the early hours of Wednesday and headed out in search of a snow-covered slope before it melted. Layla, 9, and Rawley, 12, used what they had: their surfboards. “You have to be creative in Florida!” said mom, Alicia Holmes. Anchorage wants its snow backThe record 10 inches (25 centimeters) of snowfall in New Orleans more than doubled the snowfall Anchorage, Alaska, has received since early December, the National Weather Service said. “We would like our snow back,” the weather service office in Anchorage joked in a post on the social network X. “Or at least some King Cake in return.” Anchorage was also warmer Wednesday morning than New Orleans, Atlanta, Jacksonville or Charlotte, North Carolina, according to the weather service. Dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills are forecast to persist in the southern region of the country on Thursday morning, with widespread frost in some places through the weekend, the weather service said. The thermometer is expected to return above freezing on Thursday in places such as New Orleans, and by Friday in Tallahassee and the coast of the Carolinas. Interstate highway closures Snow and ice also forced road closures, including a several-mile stretch of Interstate 10. Causeways and bridges crossing the Louisiana marshes were particularly prone to frost. “Louisiana, if you can, just hang in there,” Gov. Jeff Landry said, warning that Tuesday’s “magical” snow day would turn dangerous Wednesday as conditions worsened. In Charleston, South Carolina, it took crews nearly 16 hours to reopen traffic along the massive 2.5-mile (4-kilometer) Ravenel Bridge, which carries about 100,000 vehicles a day. Icy conditions plagued drivers in Georgia, where authorities responded to more than 1,000 calls for help. Who needs a beach when there’s snow?Some people took advantage of the Ravenel Bridge’s steep overpasses and turned them into makeshift sledding tracks. On the Outer Banks, children slid down snow-covered sand dunes near where the Wright Brothers made their first flight, while adults attempted to navigate waist-deep drifts of snow at Kitty’s Pier. Hawk. One ferry system suspended service between the barrier islands. “Maybe every 10 years we get a good snowfall like this,” said Ryan Thibodeau, 38, co-owner of Carolina Designs Realty, a vacation rental company. The storm that triggered the first blizzard warnings for some locations along the Texas and Louisiana coast also blanketed the beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama, and Pensacola Beach, Florida. Snow covering the South Carolina sand from Hilton Head to Myrtle Beach created more opportunities to convert surf gear into sleds. “It didn’t have the speed of a sled,” Alex Spiotta said as his family rode a boogie board on the Isle of Palms, South Carolina. “But in the south, you have to use whatever you have.” Other things that were used as sleds were: a laundry basket in Montgomery, Alabama; a pool tube in Houston; and kayaks, cardboard boxes and alligator inflatables on the Mississippi River levees in Louisiana. A vehicle was dragging a skier down a street in Pensacola, Florida. In Metairie, Louisiana, several nuns were having fun throwing snowballs at a priest. Flight cancellations and fatalitiesNearly 2,000 flights were canceled in the United States and another 2,300 were postponed as of midday Wednesday, according to the website FlightAware.com. The unprecedented demand for electricity to stay warm was met by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which provides power to more than 10 million customers in seven states, and PJM Interconnection, which operates the 13-state grid. But more than 100,000 families were without power in the Mid-Atlantic region Wednesday morning, according to the website PowerOutage.us. The Texas Department of Safety and Security reported that five people were killed early Tuesday when a tractor-trailer crashed into other vehicles on an icy highway southwest of San Antonio. Two people died from the cold in Austin, Texas, where emergency crews responded to more than a dozen reports of “cold exposure.” In Georgia, authorities said one person died of hypothermia. And yet the planet is warmingIn Southern California, where fires have killed at least 28 people and consumed thousands of homes, Santa Ana winds and arid conditions worsened by climate change continued to raise concerns. Although the United States, which covers approximately 2% of the planet’s land surface, experiences unusually low temperatures, the planet as a whole sets heat records. So far in 2025, the first 20 hottest days of a year on record have been experienced, according to the European climate service Copernicus, leaving last year’s mark behind, according to the data, which goes back to 1940. So far this year, U.S. … Read more

The Coast Guard and the governor of Florida now officially use the Gulf of America

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The United States Coast Guard and the Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantisresponded immediately to the president’s executive orders donald trump to deploy assets on maritime borders and use the name “Gulf of America” to refer to the Gulf of Mexico. A press release from the federal maritime agency referred to the Gulf of America when referring to “the maritime border between Texas and Mexico in the Gulf of America.” The Coast Guard is subordinate to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and patrols the Gulf in coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Their website still uses the name Gulf of Mexico, but The name change is already being used in its official communications. Ron DeSantis also accepted the name change of the Gulf of Mexico Florida Governor Ron DeSantis also quickly endorsed Trump’s executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico. In an order that issued about this week’s winter storm, DeSantis referred to an “area of ​​low pressure moving across the Gulf of America.” But changing the name of a body of water that is an integral part of Florida it might not be so simple. A computer search of Florida laws shows that at least 55 statutes include references to the Gulf of Mexicowhile local government ordinances are also linked to the traditional name. And some of these ordinances are fundamental, since delimit the territory of a countyFor example, as with legal descriptions of gulf front county boundaries from Escambia to Collier, which include references to the Gulf of Mexico, according to CBSNews. Florida lawmakers and DeSantis might have a way to update state laws to change references from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The Legislature regularly passes what are known as “revision bills” that do things like change language in laws. Revision bills generally pass easily without controversy. But Trump’s executive order on the Gulf of America has attracted attention throughout Florida and other parts of the country. President Trump’s executive order instructs the secretary of the Department of the Interior to update federal records and maps to reflect the name change. Keep reading:· Donald Trump promises to recover the Panama Canal and rename the Gulf of Mexico· Who owns the Gulf of Mexico and can Trump really rename it as he proposes?· Sheinbaum responds to Trump and proposes calling the US “Mexican America.”

Three Cubans arrested in Florida for transporting more than 20 immigrants in a moving truck

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After a report from a witness who noticed what appeared to be a kidnapping in the Snapper Creek Lakes neighborhood in Coral Gables, Florida, led to the arrest of a group of Cubans accused of human trafficking. According to what was announced, three Cubans were arrested in Miami, in southern Florida, after being discovered transporting more than twenty irregular immigrants from China, Ecuador and Brazil. The suspects were identified as José Luis Villares, Lucas Sedeno Rodríguez and Keiner Cicilia Rodriguez, who were arrested last Friday in Coral Gables, south of Miami, and face federal charges for transporting or attempting to transport undocumented immigrants within the United States. 🚨Smuggling Operation Busted in Coral Gables, Florida! Police uncovered a major human smuggling operation after stopping a U-Haul truck packed with over two dozen Chinese migrants. A sharp-eyed security guard noticed an unusually large number of people entering the vehicle… pic.twitter.com/8oWCaOxAHz — Tony Lane 🇺🇸 (@TonyLaneNV) January 18, 2025 The men were discovered after a passerby told local police that a woman was pushed into the back seat of a vehicle with a Texas license plate, parked near a moving truck in a neighborhood of this southern city. The officers then stopped both vehicles and They discovered that inside the van there were 23 personnel, nationals of China and Ecuador, overcrowded and without ventilation, with cardboard in the vehicle windows. At the same time, inside the car with a Texas license plate were five other people, from Ecuador and Brazil, in addition to the woman who had been placed in the back seat of the car. According to federal authorities, The migrants had apparently arrived by boat in southern Florida from the Bahamas and as undocumented immigrants. Sedeno Rodríguez, according to investigators, confessed that he received about $5,000 dollars as payment to transport the undocumented immigrants, and that he hired Villares to drive the van for a payment of $500 dollars. Keep reading:· With Democratic support, Laken Riley Law against immigrants advances· Tom Homan on mass deportation: “ICE agents from all over the country will be on the streets from the beginning”· Ted Cruz focuses deportations on criminals when speaking at Hispanic gala: “Take your bags and go”

VIDEO: Florida police accidentally shoot driver during routine traffic stop

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A Florida police officer was fired for incompetence after she accidentally shot a man who ran the stop sign. The official Mindy Cardwell was called to assist with a traffic stop by Officer Shaun Lowry, who had detained Jason Arrington for running a red light. The events took place in mid-December. Arrington was cooperative, but mentioned to the officers that he was carrying a firearm, so Officer Lowry told Cardwell that they were going to disarm him slowly and carefully for both their sakes. “The firearm was secured in a holster and Officer Cardwell had difficulty removing it. When he was finally able to remove the gun from the holster, he inadvertently placed several fingers inside the gun’s trigger guard, causing it to fire,” explained the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO). Arrington said, “The first time he pulled the gun and then he pulled again… He pulled harder two more times and that’s when the gun went off.”. 🚨NEW: Florida female cop is being fired for accidentally shooting a man with his own gun during a traffic stop Officer Mindy Cardwell assisted with a traffic stop on December 13 after Jason Arrington, 39, was pulled over for running a red light Cardwell tried to remove the gun… pic.twitter.com/S66WoIJmb6 — Unlimited L’s (@unlimited_ls) January 22, 2025 Lowry told the officer to drop the gun. The bullet passed through Arrington’s upper thigh and exited through the inside of his leg, causing severe arterial bleeding that the officers managed to stop using a tourniquet while they waited for paramedics to arrive. Arrington was taken to a nearby hospital after the accident. According to News4JAX, he has been forced to undergo physical therapy, and is now suffering emotional distress and possibly losing income, as The injuries have made you unable to carry out your normal activities at work.. The New York Post noted that his lingering injuries have impeded his ability to work as a crane operator, so he decided to file a lawsuit against the Sheriff’s Office in Jacksonville. He reveals that he has also started seeing a mental health professional. “It affected me in terms of my job… There are certain things in my job that I can’t do anymore, like getting on equipment and stuff. I have to get on trains and unload things, forklifts, cranes, whatever I have to do in my job. It’s a little difficult for me to do. “I can do it, but it is a challenge, really difficult,” he said. An Internal Affairs investigation deemed Cardwell incompetent and decided to fire her.as Arrington was acting cooperatively and posed no threat. Keep reading:– Former St. Louis police officers denied help to a dying man because his shift was about to end.– Video shows prison officers beating an inmate to death in New York.

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