2000: The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, or CERP, is authorized by Congress to restore and protect South ...

Everglades restoration has improved Florida's drinking water, but rising sea levels and saltwater intrusion now pose new threats.​ ...

A flock of flamingos sit on a mud flat in Florida Bay on the edge of the Florida Everglades. MATIAS J. OCNER [email protected] The promise of the first months of the second Donald Trump ...

America’s sunshine state is a natural playground, with wildlife sanctuaries and conservation-led attractions aimed at ...

The NWS office in Key West, Florida, in a forecast on Wednesday: "Smoke from wildfires in the Everglades may linger over the Keys through the early afternoon. Near nil chances of rain will prevail ...

Like all nonnative reptile species, green iguanas aren't protected in Florida except by anti-cruelty law and can be humanely ...

1845: Florida becomes 27th state. 1881: Real estate developer Hamilton Disston buys 4 million acres and begins efforts to drain the Everglades. 1906: The first dredging project began in South ...

In South Florida, drinking water comes from the Everglades, a vast landscape of wetlands that has long filtered the water relied on by millions of people. But as the Everglades has shrunk over the ...