There is a concrete sign of hope that the imperiled wet prairies, tree islands, mangrove marsh and shallow bay of Everglades National Park won’t become a wasteland as feared. That sign is a pair of ...

For a crayfish in the Florida Everglades, its worst nightmare is three feet long, dark brown and pure muscle, with a mouth like a vacuum that sucks up nearly everything it can find — tiny fish, small ...

There is a war going on in the Florida Everglades. There in the vast swamplands, humans are struggling to save the delicate ecosystem from an onslaught of legless invasive species. While scientists ...

Part IV of the Orlando Sentinel series describes efforts to uncork the slough that once brought fresh water to the river of grass. Erik Stabenau, on left and leaning forward, and Damon Rondeau, ...

Florida International University professor John Kominoski, right, and research specialist Rafael Travieso adjust automatic water sampling equipment in Shark River Slough in Florida's Everglades ...

The latest step in righting the wrongs done to the Everglades centuries ago kicked off Thursday morning with shovelfuls of ceremonial dirt flung into the air. The South Florida Water Management ...

The ridge and slough landscape of the Florida Everglades is a patterned peatland, with elevated sawgrass ridges interspersed among open-water sloughs, aligned with the flow direction. Throughout a ...

The Apalachicola River of North Florida in healthier times plunged deeply into tupelo forests, where the flooding waters brewed into an organic energy drink for a web of life that included a bay ...

Emily Pennington is a columnist and longtime Outside contributor. For her 63 Parks column, she visited every U.S. national park. New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running ...

Deep in the Everglades, where whiskers of muhly grass bloom purple in fall, lives a sparrow — a diminutive bird, shy, mostly unremarkable, yet it wields the full might of the federal government in its ...

EVERGLADES (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 organisms — carpet ...