"This is so insane," the passenger described in the viral TikTok video, noting "this should be green and full of water." ...

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 ...

Languages: English. A Florida meteorologist has told Newsweek that some marshes and swamps in the Everglades appear to be "drying up" as extreme drought hits the Sunshine state. WINK News chief ...

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 ...

EVERGLADES (AP) — In a region of Florida known as the River of Grass, John Kominoski plops into hip-deep waters. Blobs of brown periphyton — a mishmash of algae, bacteria and other organisms ...