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, ...

Due to the attention of Alligator Alcatraz, an ICE detention center in the Florida Everglades, many may be wondering about ...

The researchers found that compact “scrub” mangroves, dominated by Rhizophora mangle, kept absorbing about 294 grams of ...

Due to attention from Alligator Alcatraz, ICE detention center in the Florida Everglades, many are wondering about gator and ...

As you reach southern Florida, the boundary between land and water blurs as solid ground gives way to the Everglades. During the wet season, nearby Lake Okeechobee spills over and flows into the ...

Scientists have discovered that changes in climate and water levels are reducing the ability of some ecosystems in the ...

The facility could be completed within months and have the capacity to hold around 1,000 people.

Though construction and development have diminished the Everglades to half their original size, South Florida is still ...

The Florida Everglades are a unique environmental region comprising marshes, prairies, forests, mangroves and estuaries. Uthmeier said the facility would not be located within Everglades National ...

The detention facility is being built on an isolated airstrip about 50 miles west of Miami, and it could house 5,000 ...

But mangroves, for example, decreased a lot of the impact. Without the mangroves, South Florida would experienced another $725 million in storm surge damages, much of it to private properties.