Environment

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.

Lake Okeechobee's water level is hovering between 11 feet and a few inches less, and while that’s more than two feet below its historical average for this time of year, it will take another two feet, and then some, for this drought to cause Lake O to break its low-water mark.

A female loggerhead sea turtle, named after the 1980s rock icon was found on the beach with her hind end missing after being hit by a boat.

Lee County Health Department issues an advisory about enterococcus bacteria off Sanibel Causeway.

The ninth Florida panther death this year and the fifth female of the species was reported killed in Collier County in the past week. The remains of the big cat, a 3-year-old female, were collected June 19, on County Road 846 in Collier County, east of Immokalee. The suspected cause of death was vehicle collision.