The Florida Python Challenge 2025 will award $25,000 in prizes, with the top prize being $10,000. The competition is being organized in conjunction with the South Florida Water Management District, and interested parties can register at FLPythonChallenge.org.

The researchers found that compact “scrub” mangroves, dominated by Rhizophora mangle, kept absorbing about 294 grams of carbon per square meter each year even when water levels covered a quarter of their stems, outperforming sawgrass prairies more than six‑fold.

During the wet season, nearby Lake Okeechobee spills over and flows into the Everglades. Water flows southward through cypress swamps, wet prairies, and mangrove forests, before spilling out into the Florida Bay. RELATED: The Americas Explained ...

Scientists have discovered that changes in climate and water levels are reducing the ability of some ecosystems in the Everglades to sequester carbon, while the environmental shifts are enhancing the potential for carbon uptake by scrub mangroves.

Though construction and development have diminished the Everglades to half their original size, South Florida is still defined by this vast wetland. Just how, exactly, do they help protect us from flooding,

Satellite data has helped uncover worrying trends for this vital ecosystem in the Florida Everglades.

The Everglades' long-term survival will depend partly on whether mangroves, among its most unique and threatened native species, can keep pace with climate impacts.

WELCOME to Florida’s lesser-seen side – a world so wild it feels like you’re assisting on a David Attenborough documentary. The Sunshine State has parks bigger than some countries, home to ...