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 ...

Florida's largest national park is a watery wilderness of incredible birds, subtropical swamps, and, yes, alligators.

Winter is the perfect time to visit Everglades National Park and Biscayne National Park, where new accommodations and a new tour catamaran named in honor of a key conservationist bring nature even ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis said he plans to ask Trump to let Florida take over Everglades restoration, essentially ending a 25-year partnership with the Army Corps of Engineers.

Florida will ask President-elect Donald Trump to give the state authority over federal money for Everglades restoration projects.

Things to do In Everglades National Park Visit the Ernest F Coe Visitor Center The Ernest F Coe Visitor Center is the first thing you will come across when entering the Everglades from Florida City.

EVERGLADES, Fla. (AP) — In a region of Florida known as the River of Grass, John Kominoski plops into hip-deep waters. Blobs of brown periphyton – a mishmash of algae, bacteria and other ...

Other parts of the Everglades need more help. From the air, floating mats of harmful blue-green algae are sometimes visible on Lake Okeechobee – a sign of warm temperatures and excess nutrients.

Florida commenced construction on the reservoir in February 2023, south of the state’s largest freshwater lake, Lake Okeechobee, according to BBC. Dubbed “the crown jewel” of the Everglades ...

A Burmese python nest of 111 eggs is the largest ever discovered in Florida, wildlife officials said. It was removed from the Everglades this month.

For decades, largescale engineering projects for development and agriculture drained and partitioned south Florida's Everglades, a vast wetlands landscape home to endangered and threatened species ...

When the $3.9 billion Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir Project is complete, a reservoir and wetland will store and clean polluted water from Lake Okeechobee in central Florida before it’s ...