George Burgess leads the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History of the University of Florida.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

(JIMMY BUFFETT - "VOLCANO") The first European to see the Florida Keys was Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon in the year fifteen-thirteen.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

The government built the Florida base shortly after the discovery of Soviet missiles about three hundred kilometers away, on the island of Cuba.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

The endangered creatures include the manatee, the Miami blackhead snake, the wood stork and the Florida panther.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

The area includes the Collier Seminole State Park and the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge.

VOA: special.2010.09.21

They include the Florida panther, the American crocodile and the West Indian manatee.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

People come from all over the world to fish in the Florida Keys.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Visitors can ride on other kinds of boats in the Florida Keys.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

This past weekend the first family visited the Florida Gulf coast.

VOA: special.2010.08.16

The music heard in the Florida Keys is unusual.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

A road extends southwest into the Florida Keys.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

And many of the Florida Keys are little.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

These islands are called the Florida Keys.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

But Jim Fenton, director of the Florida Solar Energy Center at the University of Central Florida, says costs are falling quickly.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Around the same time,Key West, off the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula, became the center of the cigar industry.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

In the case of the Florida Senate race, Republican Marco Rubio's campaign has also been aided by the so-called Tea Party movement.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

So far, no oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has been found near the Florida Keys.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Rick Freedman, head of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Miami, says budget cuts could also wind up costing the state more money.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

The oil slick has now entered the loop current that runs from the Gulf of Mexico to the Florida Keys and up the east coast of the U.S., Jarvis said.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

John Hunt is with the Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

The United States space agency already uses an Aircraft Birdstrike Avoidance Radar at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

During the next several years, Hurston traveled in Florida and the Caribbean to collect and write stories about what she saw.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

The delegations from the other six states of the Deep South -- Arkansas, Florida,Georgia,Louisiana,Mississippi, and Texas -- did the same.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

He and other survivors were flown to Florida for emergency treatment at the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

For example,a group called Shark Safe helped prevent the killing of sharks at a fishing competition in Florida earlier this month.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

After much discussion, the eight Republicans on the committee voted to accept the votes of Florida's Republican electors.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

That worries community leaders on the Space Coast -- the area around the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Some American students from Florida are bringing the business of beekeeping to farmers in a community in Ghana.

VOA: special.2009.06.29