Small and stocky birds perch, hunched over, on the treetops and branches of Lake Okeechobee on the edge of Florida's swampy ...

Biologists tracking a big python found it dead, chewed up and buried. They launched into a CSI-like investigation that ...

From the Gulf to the estuary, Caloosahatchee River, the canals and all the way up stream to Lake Okeechobee. May 15 traditionally marks the beginning of the rainy season. Meanwhile, we're in a ...

However, the lake faces increasing harmful cyanobacteria blooms, particularly from the toxin-producing species Microcystis aeruginosa. These microscopic algae thrive in warm, nutrient-rich waters ...

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. — Freshwater releases from Lake Okeechobee into the St. Lucie Estuary will stop this weekend for the first time in over three months. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...

The 2025 Bassmaster Elite series makes their second stop of the year on Lake Okeechobee. Solid, generally good conditions and a long history of giant bass mean this should be an exceptionally ...

“The dry prairie ecosystem once stretched from coast to coast and from Kissimmee to Lake Okeechobee,” according to the Florida ... which is home to rare and endangered wildlife, sunsets that stretch ...

The Army Corps of Engineers began releasing water from Lake Okeechobee Saturday under Lake Okeechobee Recovery Operations. Exactly how much will be released is based on many factors including ...

Sprawling between South Florida’s Lake Okeechobee and the Gulf ... on and self-guided activities including a scavenger hunt to spot wild animals that call the park home. The park also ...

Lake Okeechobee is the largest lake in Florida and the second largest in the Southeastern United States. Over the past two decades, blooms of blue-green algae (Microcystis) have emerged in the ...

At the heart of the vast watershed that forms Florida’s fragile Everglades is Lake Okeechobee ... sickened Floridians and left wildlife belly-up. The discharges were necessary during times ...