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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.