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A hurricane that would later go down in history books makes landfall in West Palm Beach and barrels west causing the small mud dikes around Lake Okeechobee to fail, flooding nearby communities and ...
Three years after that, another one was gunned down. An even greater danger threatened to destroy the entire Everglades: proposals to drain the marshes and turn the vast wetland into a developer's ...
Everglades: A unique subtropical wetland ecosystem that once covered about 3 million acres of South Florida. Water once flowed down the Kissimmee River into Lake Okeechobee then south to Florida Bay.
Around a million people visit each year. The clamor to drain this swamp has been silenced; Americans have begun to see the Everglades as the country’s very own Garden of Eden. I headed west on ...
A remote site in the Florida Everglades almost became the world's largest airport but was canceled for environmental and economic reasons.
Florida's Everglades. Devastated by a century of drainage and development, the entire Everglades watershed is suffering from man-made pollution, habitat destruction, and species decline.
A flock of flamingos sit on a mud flat in Florida Bay on the edge of the Florida Everglades. MATIAS J. OCNER [email protected] The promise of the first months of the second Donald Trump ...
Today the Everglades is half the size it was then. Lake Okeechobee, the “liquid heart” of the Everglades, and the rivers that drain it to the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean — the Caloosahatchee and ...
Canals dug to drain the land for development and farming cut off that natural flow of water and the Everglades is now half of its historic size. Projects are underway to mimic the natural flow of ...