Saltwater Brewery - What's Brewing — environmental

September in Delray Beach is the month that makes the point. The heat sits on you, the afternoon storms arrive more or less on schedule, and by NOAA’s National Hurricane Center climatology the Atlantic hurricane season peaks in the first half of September. Sea turtle nesting season is still running along our stretch of coast through the end of October. Every one of those afternoon downpours pushes whatever was sitting in a parking lot or a swale toward a storm drain, then a canal, then an inlet. And the third Saturday of September is International Coastal Cleanup Day. This is...

Florida's Coral Reef runs more than 350 nautical miles and reaches north to the St. Lucie Inlet — right past Palm Beach County. Late August is the hardest stretch of its year. Here is what bleaching actually is, what the reef is worth, and how anyone can report what they see.

Florida's nesting season runs March 1 through October 31, and mid-August sits in the thick of it. Palm Beach County carries more sea turtle nests per mile than anywhere in the country — here are five things that actually help hatchlings this month, starting with a light bulb.

Last night, we were honored to be included in the premiere showing of “Troubled Waters - A Turtle’s Tale,” a film by PBS at the Museum of Discovery & Science in Fort Lauderdale. This film looks at the poor impacts by humans to our oceans and the sea life that lives in it, and highlights what some awesome South Florida organizations like Gumbo Limbo, The Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Loggerhead Marinelife Center, Oceana, MOTE Marine Labs, and our own brewery are doing to help. You can catch the Premiere Broadcast on WLRN-TV October 3rd at 9PM.  Here is everything else...