Arts & Entertainment

Photos taken 40 years apart show how the refuge has changed

A Clearwater photographer and Eckerd graduate who spent much of his life in Pinellas County has given Floridians—and any environmentalist, really—an astonishing lens into the past. Benjamin Dimmitt’s book "An Unflinching Look: Elegy for Wetlands" demonstrates the ecological consequences of climate change on Florida’s wetlands, specifically in the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge, about 60 miles north of Tampa...