The bills would allow developers to buy credits for wetlands mitigation far from areas impacted and long before restoration ...

Whether you dream of spotting a black bear or a pod of dolphins, here are 30+ destinations around the South that are great ...

From the Everglades to the Keys, Florida is teeming with life, but with human encroachment, some species are being pushed to ...

Dwarf baldcypress, dwarf swamp cypress Latin name: Taxodium distichum ‘Peve Minaret’ Plant size: 6-10′ high by 3′ wide in 10 ...

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

During the wet season, nearby Lake Okeechobee spills over and flows into the Everglades. Water flows southward through ...

The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven days a week that is available to read on ...

The South Florida Water Management District reported overall nesting down although snowy egrets, South Florida's dominant ...

when Hurricane Andrew ripped through Miami during a wildlife convention and released foreign species into the state’s swamps, these strangling snakes have been reproducing in the Everglades and ...

Whatever it was, it was hovering, shaped like a broad, upside-down cone, an estimated 200 feet in the air above some cypress trees ... a Seminole Indian who lived there in the Everglades swamp. It isn ...

Mike Elfenbein loves to hunt turkeys, which is one of the reasons he is so committed to protecting the Big Cypress National ... for The Green Heart of the Everglades Project.

(via PBS Terra) In the Atchafalaya Basin—the largest river swamp in the U.S.—ancient cypress trees act as natural barriers against hurricanes and extreme weather. Spanning a million acres, these ...