1845: Florida becomes 27th state. 1881: Real estate developer Hamilton Disston buys 4 million acres and begins efforts to drain the Everglades. 1906: The first dredging project began in South ...

A remote site in the Florida Everglades almost became the world's largest airport but was canceled for environmental and ...

Everglades: A unique subtropical wetland ecosystem that once covered about 3 million acres of South Florida. Water once ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...