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Fixing the Everglades is the planet’s largest ecosystem restoration project. And after 20 years, work has begun to pick up speed with a boost in state and federal spending.
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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.
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A legacy of the hasty construction of the dam and reservoir in the 1960s is that it left many trees in the reservoir's boundary.
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Heavy rains that lingered weeks after the official end of the wet season left farmers struggling with flooded fields and meager crops.
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A judge has given the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers a year to assess the damage caused to sea turtles, manatees and other protected species by dirty water released from Lake Okeechobee.
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Florida has applied to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to have control over permitting in the wetlands. Only two other states, New Jersey and Michigan, do their own permitting.
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The program manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it, as well as Florida, will need to spend close to a billion each year through 2026.
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The federal government is planning a massive system of floodwalls, pumps and surge barriers for Miami. But it doesn't address the more frequently felt threat from rising sea levels.
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Coping with storm surge fueled by rising seas in the Keys means elevating homes, buyouts in vulnerable areas, protecting important places like hospitals...
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The Customs and Border Protection agency says it is doing its best to reduce impact to the environment and tribal citizens. Conservationists and Native Tribes in the area are not appeased.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Jacksonville District is working on more than $4 billion in storm disaster recovery projects in Florida and...
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A federal judge on Monday refused to end a decades-old court order that oversees water quality and environmental restoration in the sensitive Florida…