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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…

Miami Herald · Jun 28, 2023

Dramatic video shows shark attack man and pull him into water

Recreational fisherman pulled into water in the Everglades National Park by shark

The Independent UK · Jun 26, 2023

Terrifying moment shark bites an unsuspecting fisherman's hand and drags him overboard

Fisherman Nick was washing his hands in the water at Everglades National Park in Florida, US, when a shark jumped up and pulled him off the boat as his horrified friends looked on

Daily Mirror · Jun 26, 2023

Hiker's video shows alligator noisily munching on python in Florida Everglades

Katina Boychew came across the two reptiles on a hike in the National Park last week

Advnture · Apr 6, 2023

DeSantis fights for Everglades as he neglects climate crisis

One night in mid-February, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took the stage at the Breakers in Palm Beach to brag about how much he’d done for the environment.

Tribune News Service · Apr 2, 2023

Asian swamp eels spread in the Everglades. ‘Potentially the worst species we’ve had yet’

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 shellfish, turtle eggs and frogs.

Miami Herald · Mar 30, 2023

In Florida, an invasive snail is helping save an endangered bird

The population of an endangered bird, the Everglade snail kite, has rebounded recently. Scientists it's all thanks to an invasive snail that has provided kites with a new abundant food source.

WEKU · Mar 14, 2023

Python invasion has exploded out of the Everglades and into nearly all of southern Florida, new map shows

Burmese pythons are too good at what they do — they’re nearly undetectable to both humans and their prey, they barely need to move and when they do they’re deadly. On top of that, they have lots of babies.

Tribune News Service · Mar 8, 2023

Signs of Everglades recovery emerge. Long way to go but ‘trending in the right direction’

After decades of planning and pleading for political support and dollars to restore the Everglades, there are growing signs that the massive multibillion-dollar effort is beginning to “get the water right.”

Miami Herald · Mar 1, 2023

Everglades restoration moves closer to reality with a crucial groundbreaking

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It’s been 23 years since Congress passed the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, an ambitious program to undo, at least in part, the damage done by humans to one of the most unique ecosystems on the planet.

Tribune News Service · Feb 26, 2023