everglades

In 1897, the explorer and amateur scientist Hugh de Laussat Willoughby climbed into a canoe and embarked on a coast-to-coast expedition of the Florida Everglades, a wilderness then nearly as vast as the peninsula itself and as unknown, he wrote, as the “heart of Africa.”

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says a major project on Lake Okeechobee will go a long way toward addressing widespread toxic algae blooms.

The Everglades are getting record spending from the Biden administration. That includes a more than $1 billion allocation that the administration characterizes as the single largest investment ever in Everglades restoration.

The plan still needs to undergo an environmental study.

Naples artist Lisette Morales was one of ten photographers to have work chosen to be part of a public art exhibition called I AM WATER.

Everglades National Park is looking for information about a string of fires set near the main entrance over the last two months.

Florida's governor has declared a state of emergency after a significant leak at a large storage pond of wastewater threatened to flood roads and burst a system that stores polluted waters.

Governor Ron DeSantis was in western Miami Dade County today to highlight the progress of a project designed to help restore the flow of water through the Everglades.

Rains is the state’s second ever chief science officer. He is replacing Tom Frazer.

The miles of canals and levees that make up the old flood system Congress authorized in the 1940s was designed to protect about 2 million people. We now have 11 million, from Orlando to Miami.