For thousands of years, Lake Okeechobee pumped life into Florida’s swampy interior. Summer rains swelled the shallow inland sea, creating seasonal overflows that sustained the Everglades and its ...

Lake Okeechobee's water level is declining, approaching the lower management threshold, which could impact water supply for agriculture. Despite the ecological challenges, fishing in the ...

Huge green blooms now regularly infest much of Lake Okeechobee’s 730-square-mile surface during the summer, producing toxic vapors and waterborne poisons potent enough to kill pets, or send ...

There has been a change of heart that releases of polluted water from Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee River are no longer a near-apocalypse happening but rather a beneficial event ...

There's a troubling trend of painting farmers as the scapegoats for environmental issues surrounding Lake Okeechobee. Having grown up in Clewiston, I've witnessed firsthand how certain groups ...

A 1928 hurricane that triggered Lake Okeechobee flooding up to 20 feet deep in some towns is estimated to have killed at least 2,500 people — a majority of them Black farm workers.

Okeechobee has been higher than it should be for the past four or five years, and the submerged aquatic vegetation there has shrunk to a few thousand acres, perhaps 10% of its range in recent years.

The Lake Okeechobee event in Southern Florida runs from February 27th to March 2nd, 2025. The Bassmaster’s top level pros will be battling for their chance to take home a big, blue trophy and ...

Since 2008, the Army Corps has used what is called the Lake Okeechobee Regulation Schedule, or LORS, to keep the surface of Lake Okeechobee between 12.5 and 15.5 feet above sea level.