Environment

Weaker protections could also allow more development of wild land.

A team of University of Florida scientists is working on a million-dollar solution to one of South Florida's most urgent environmental problems: saltwater intrusion and flooding driven by sea level rise.

Hundreds of square miles of Florida’s largest lake is again blanketed in toxic, blue-green algae.

This year’s loggerhead nesting season on Sanibel and Captiva islands continues in full swing. With several more weeks left, if another hundred or so nests are dug, the record from three years ago will fall.

Schools are hoping children will enjoy learning a different type of online activity by taking part in fishing clubs when classrooms reopen

The International Union for Conservation of Nature has determined gopher tortoises are more at risk of extinction than ever before. The U.S. government does not agree. At the same time the nature union declared the gopher tortoises’ status more dire, the Trump Administration removed habitat protections for endangered species.

Don’t Step On a Bee Day, observed every July 10, has grown from an unofficial reminder to wear shoes outside to avoid bee stings into full habitat protection messaging.

The developer of a large and controversial residential subdivision in southeastern Lee County abandoned a plan this week to build a road through the middle of Audubon’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

The Center for Biological Diversity has sued the National Marine Fisheries Service, accusing the agency of failing to protect the queen conch. The marine snail is also protected statewide

The main challenge of Clean Beaches Week is to remind people heading to the shore how easy it is to leave no trace they were there. Organizers point to picking up every bit of trash used, mess made, and recycling created.