2000: The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, or CERP, is authorized by Congress to restore and protect South ...

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 economic reasons.

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.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A battle over Florida’s state bird has once again taken hold in the state legislature. Twin bills in the state Senate and House are proposing that the American flamingo and the ...

The Everglades is a unique ecosystem unlike any in the world. We ruined it. Getting it back is expensive, tedious 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 ...

McCormick’s campaign was vastly outraised during the first three months of the year by a little-known Democratic primary ...