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, ...

As researchers have recently demonstrated, wetland-based mangroves may boast some important climate benefits in the face of ...

From unexplained phenomena to baffling disappearances, follow the clues while discovering our country’s treasured protected ...

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

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 ...

The grouper sandwich is another standout – a thick fillet of fresh-caught fish on a bun that somehow manages to contain it without surrendering to the juicy deliciousness. Topped with lettuce, tomato, ...

Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity are nonpartisan, not-for-profit organizations working to protect the Everglades from the threat of water and light pollution and other ...

Just when I thought things couldn’t get much worse, they did. Our fearless leader had the brilliant idea of creating a ...

Invasive species — whether snakes, plants, or insects — throw ecosystems out of balance. While the Everglades' problem is on ...

Blazing lights, sewage: 55 years later, Alligator Alcatraz steamrolls Marjory Stoneman Douglas-led effort to keep the ...

The Everglades also provide over $5 billion a year in reduced risk for costs associated with National Flood Insurance Program claims. Meanwhile, South Florida’s mangroves and reefs play an important ...

The Everglades is more than just swamps, fan boats and alligators and restoration efforts impact more than the land between Florida’s east and west coasts.