New push for protection for manatees, Florida’s ‘gentle giants’
A proposal from the US Fish and Wildlife Service would revise critical habitat protections for the first time in nearly 50 ...
A proposal from the US Fish and Wildlife Service would revise critical habitat protections for the first time in nearly 50 ...
Manatees are eating less seagrass – traditionally their primary food source – and more algae than in decades past.
Critical habitat would expand to nearly 2 million acres in the first update since the West Indian manatee was protected ...
The team will examine pesticide and fertilizer transport, water pollution and threats to groundwater.
The Department of Environmental Protection's plans for nine state parks include golf courses, two sets of 350-room hotels and pickleball ...
Environmental groups, members of the Florida Cabinet and Republican lawmakers have come out against the plan.
Runoff that is often polluted by sewage has impacted many Florida water bodies, causing algae blooms.
Hanisak, director of education and the marine ecosystems health program at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, died May 7.
Supporters are trying to put a 'Right to Clean and Healthy Waters' amendment to the Florida Constitution on the 2026 ...
Florida’s ailing waters need more, not less, policies and practices that prevent pollution at its source.
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