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Takeaways from AP's story on the Miccosukee's fight to protect the Everglades

For centuries, the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida has called the Everglades home

The Independent UK · Dec 20, 2024

In Florida, the Miccosukee fight to protect the Everglades in the face of climate change

For centuries, the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida has called the Everglades home

The Independent UK · Dec 20, 2024

Everglades Restoration Efforts Making Progress Despite Challenges

Efforts to restore the Everglades face challenges from pollution and climate change, but progress is being made to protect this vital ecosystem.

Takeaways from AP's story on Everglades restoration efforts

For decades, largescale engineering projects for development and agriculture drained and partitioned south Florida’s Everglades, a vast wetlands landscape home to endangered and threatened species and a vital source of drinking water for millions of Floridians

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2024

In Florida, a race is on to save the Everglades and protect a key source of drinking water

For decades, largescale engineering projects for development and agriculture drained and partitioned south Florida's Everglades, a vast wetlands landscape home to endangered and threatened species and a vital source of drinking water for millions of Floridians

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2024

The Ford Bronco Everglades Is Worthy of the Badge: Review

You probably can't tell by looking at the picture above, but I'm standing in about six inches of water. My feet are soaked, fish are swimming around me, and there's a stench coming off the surface that I’d deem concerning.

Motor1 · Dec 17, 2024

The Burmese python problem: how 20ft predators are wreaking havoc on the Everglades

There are between 100,000 and 300,000 of these snakes in the region – and they can swallow a small deer whole. What can Florida do about this threat to biodiversity?

The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2024

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Prisoners plead for air conditioning in lawsuit against Florida corrections department

A lawsuit filed this week by the prison reform advocacy group Florida Justice Institute says that extreme heat in unairconditioned cells at a prison near the Florida Everglades has contributed to the deaths of four people and that state officials have failed to take “meaningful action” to mitigate the risk…

The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2024

'Truly primal': Watch Burmese python swallow deer whole in Florida Everglades by stretching its mouth to the absolute limit

Female Burmese python measuring 14.8’ (4.5m) and weighing 115.2 lbs (52.3 kg) consuming a white-tailed deer weighing 76.9 lbs (34.9 kg) in southwestern Florida.

LiveScience · Oct 24, 2024

Grand prize winner removed 20 Burmese pythons from the wild in Florida challenge

The winner of the Florida Python Challenge removed 20 Burmese pythons from the Everglades

The Independent UK · Sep 17, 2024

A hunter’s graveyard shift: grabbing pythons in the Everglades

In the dead of night, hunters go deep into the Florida Everglades, searching for the invasive Burmese pythons that are eating up mice, rabbits and other prey

The Independent UK · Aug 18, 2024

Snake hunters will wrangle invasive Burmese pythons in Everglades during Florida's 10-day challenge

The annual Florida Python Challenge this year begins the competition between hunters to capture the most and longest Burmese pythons

The Independent UK · Aug 9, 2024

Good flooding? Scientists use rice cultivation to preserve soil in Florida’s Everglades Agricultural Area

Each summer, nearly 25,000 acres (10,000 hectares) of rice is cultivated in the Florida Everglades Agricultural Area, a roughly 1,100-square-mile (2,800-square-kilometer) area south of Lake Okeechobee.

The Conversation · Aug 8, 2024

Influential Florida family sold the state thousands of acres of likely contaminated land

The land sits between the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park and the Big Cypress National Preserve. It is home to 39 threatened species

Latin Times · Jul 9, 2024

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Advnture · May 20, 2024

"To put your child in danger like that is unbelievable" – tourists interrupt alligator's meal to snap pictures in Florida Everglades

One woman brought her young child for a close look at the animal, which had caught a turtle

USA Today Sports Media Group · Jan 20, 2024

Another use for e-bikes: python hunting in the Florida Everglades

"This gives new meaning to riding double!" Kymberly Clark, an avid python hunter, stated after "removing" a 10-footer from the Everglades.

Advnture · Jan 12, 2024

Clueless everglades hikers make children pose for photo with alligator

The three youngsters are clearly uncomfortable, but their parents' desire for photos overrides common dense

Broadcasting & Cable · Jan 3, 2024

‘Wildlife Nation With Jeff Corwin’ Sets Up in the Everglades

Season 2, premiering Jan. 6, sees HMPG program partner with Miccosukee Tribe

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Reason · Dec 9, 2023

Everglades Restoration Complicated by Florida Agricultural Interests

Tariffs and sugar subsidies have propped up overvalued land needed to fix the environmental damage.

Reason · Dec 9, 2023

Meet Florida's Python Bounty Hunters

Eradication of the apex predator is “likely impossible.”

USA Today Sports Media Group · Aug 16, 2023

Video shows guys subduing huge python in Everglades

A group of guys from the Tampa Bay area made an early morning capture of a huge Burmese python.

LiveScience · Jul 31, 2023

Long-held myth says Hurricane Andrew sparked Florida's Burmese python problem. Is it true?

The 1992 storm destroyed a python breeding facility, potentially setting hundreds of pythons free. But it's likely the invasive species had gained a foothold in the Everglades long before the hurricane hit.

WEKU · Jul 26, 2023

With Florida ocean temperatures topping 100, experts warn of damage to marine life

The startling 101.1 reading was recorded in Manatee Bay, near Everglades National Park. The rising ocean temperatures, driven by climate change, are already endangering nearby coral, experts say.

LiveScience · Jul 11, 2023

Enormous Burmese python killed in Florida Everglades was about to lay 60 eggs

Invasive pythons across the state are about to start laying their eggs after spring's mating season, with the 16-foot (5 meter) female caught being no exception.

Miami Herald · Jun 28, 2023

Knight puts $8 million into push to make Miami ‘the most climate literate city in the nation’

In South Florida, surveys routinely show that residents care deeply about having clean water and air, and unpolluted water to swim and fish in. But when it comes to perhaps the biggest environmental threat yet — climate change — it’s not the kitchen table conversation that environmentalists believe it should…

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