Environment

Gifted lands created parks and preserves—now one Sarasota County commissioner is pushing to rezone and sell part of it to himself.

Mound House, a museum dedicated to the history of Fort Myers Beach, has a new public water quality monitoring station. The station collects 14 types of water quality data, including temperature, salinity, turbidity, pH and depth.

Florida's annual boating accident report tells of death and injuries, but includes ways to stay safe and have fun: wear life jackets, pay attention, follow the rules, go slow

New research discovered an existing drought, like the one in South Florida since January, can lengthen heat waves, like the one parked over Florida, a North Carolina weather researcher found.

Showers and thunderstorms swept across Lee and Collier counties, with four or more inches of rain. Other areas didn’t get enough rain to do much more than dampen the landscape. Southwest Florida’s drought is not yet over.

More than 100 wildfires were burning throughout Florida at the end of April, 14 million state residents are gripped by drought, and hurricane season's coming.

North Port is in the midst of two-week process to clear out the piping of the city's water system, which can be done while the water can still be used

Manatees in the Indian River Lagoon and other places around Florida are starving to death due to pollution killing seagrass meadows

Some areas of Lee County will see trash, recycling and yard-waste pickup begin an hour earlier starting May 1.

Today is Earth Day, and the Caloosahatchee River is 100 pounds lighter, so to speak, than it was before Megan Parsons and her friends got together last weekend for one of the region's first Earth Day celebrations and cleanups