Nancy Klingener
Nancy Klingener covers the Florida Keys for WLRN. Since moving to South Florida in 1989, she has worked for the Miami Herald, Solares Hill newspaper and the Monroe County Public Library.
She is a Spring 2014 graduate of the Transom Story Workshop. She is on the board of the Key West Literary Seminar.
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The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary's Restoration Blueprint would add Pulley Ridge in the Gulf of Mexico to its boundaries, in addition to putting additional protections on more than 450 square miles around the Keys.
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Key West will celebrate its bicentennial with a time capsule. But locals are learning that an earlier capsule marking the island's 150th anniversary is AWOL.
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The city of Key West has another possible plan to limit cruise ship traffic to its port. Voters approved limits in 2020, but they were overturned last year by the state Legislature.
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Cruise ships recently returned to Key West. The big ships once brought nearly a million people a year to the island. In late March of last year, the pandemic put a stop to cruising. Since then, even though the ships weren't calling, cruising has been a hot topic on the island.
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The annual two-day lobster mini season is controversial in the Florida Keys — and sometimes dangerous. This year there are some new efforts to make things safer for lobster hunters and the environment.
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A Key West plumber, whose passion is metal detecting on island beaches, recently returned a lost treasure — after three decades underwater.
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One of the last ways to live relatively cheaply in the Florida Keys is on a boat, especially "on the hook," or anchored out, but it's not the idyllic easy life that you might imagine.
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Advocates for limiting cruise ships in Key West say water quality improved while they were gone. A new study from Florida International University backs them up.
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Since the pandemic started, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary staffers have not been allowed to scuba dive. They can't check on the coral reefs, fish and other habitats and animals the sanctuary is there to protect. That's about to change.
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The Key Largo neighborhood that was flooded for more than three months last year — and is flooding again now — got some help Wednesday when Monroe County installed temporary flood barriers.
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Scientists thought Florida's native flamingo population had been hunted out of existence by the 19th century plume trade. A new study suggests the birds have been there all along.
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Reporter Nancy Klingener takes NPR to the annual Underwater Musical Festival in the Florida Keys, as part of All Things Considered's feature on off-kilter summer festivals.