Everglades National Park

The expedition that retraces the 1897 trek of an explorer and amateur scientist also commemorates the 75th anniversary of Everglades National Park, which was dedicated on Dec. 6, 1947.

Burnett Oil Co. has proposed drilling at two sites in the Everglades of Big Cypress National Preserve, an important Florida panther habitat that sprawls across both sides of Alligator Alley. Environmentalists hope the Biden administration takes a more skeptical view.

There are an estimated 1,000 bears in South Florida living in the conservation areas of Big Cypress National Preserve and Everglades National Park.

A biologist says the sparrows became a key indicator for Everglades health and the variety of plants that the ecosystem needs to flourish.

The Cape Florida Banding Station is one of the few banding stations on the Southeast Atlantic Coast and has stayed open thanks largely to the work of a single, driven scientist.

Aedes scapularis mosquitoes are from the tropics and can carry yellow fever. Entomologist Lawrence Reeves recently identified them among mosquitoes he collected near Everglades National Park in 2019.

For more than a year, birder Dennis Olle has been complaining to park officials that the speed limit was too high and harming wildlife. Now a snow goose, which made a rare appearance in the park earlier this month, is dead.

For decades, the Las Palmas neighborhood on the eastern edge of Everglades National Park has confounded water managers trying to restore the River of Grass, and stood as a warning to compromising on restoration work.

The historic rise of South Florida sugarcane farming turned the giant Lake Okeechobee into a toilet for polluted waters draining from as far as Central Florida and flushing ruinously via canals to coastal estuaries at Fort Myers and Stuart.

Everglades National Park will delay a planned hike in entrance fees while the park continues whittling away at a massive backlog of maintenance repairs.

A rare whale was found dead in the waters of Florida's Everglades National Park.