Small and stocky birds perch, hunched over, on the treetops and branches of Lake Okeechobee on the edge of Florida’s swampy Everglades for the better part of winter. The alligators swarming the murky ...

The closure of Captain Mitch's Everglades Airboat Tours brings focus on the water challenges happening in the Western ...

County leaders say their unanimous vote in favor of a sugar industry-backed mining and water storage plan was driven by legal ...

Sulfur from sugarcane crops is flowing into wetlands in the Florida Everglades, creating toxic methylmercury, which accumulates in fish, a new study finds. Sulfur applied to sugarcane crops in ...

Sulfur from sugarcane crops is contaminating wetlands like this in the Florida Everglades, finds a UC Davis study. (Brett Poulin/UC Davis) Sulfur applied to sugarcane crops in South Florida is flowing ...

Wetlands play an important role in the availability ... to remove invasive trees and plants in the eastern and western Florida Everglades. These projects with the National Audubon Society and ...

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Publix is building on its commitment to the Florida Everglades ... 250 acres of wetlands in Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, a part of the western Everglades. This project is ...

professor of biological sciences at Florida International University, explains that, despite its lush appearances, the Everglades can be a nutrient poor environment. A largely flat wetland ...

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 ...