Have you heard of red tide? Did you visit Florida recently only to be told you couldn't go in the ocean? This was probably due to the red tide.  Red tide is an over abundance of an algae called Karenia brevis, an algae that thrives in water with a high salinity (salt content). It originated in the G...

Looking For Alaska is best-selling author John Green’s first book. It’s a story about a boy named Miles Halter who decides to move away from his dreary, uneventful life in Florida and travel to Alabama to spend his junior year of high school at Culver Creek Prep. There he meets his new roommate Chi...