The Florida Everglades is a complicated climate actor. The 1.5-million-acre wetland system remains a carbon sink, removing an ...

In the slow-moving canals and shadowy marshes of the Florida Everglades live some of the most dangerous creatures. You ...

Invasive species are all over America, and it’s very likely you may have seen them in your own backyard. Some species are so ...

The fate of one of the last thriving coral reefs in Florida may be imperiled by plans to widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades.

Wild Florida Drive-thru Safari Park offers something completely different: a chance to get up close and personal with exotic ...

Simply called "the Big Cypress" by Gladesmen and older folks in south Florida, the national preserve was established in 1974.

Frankie Cecere made iguana pizza for the first time during Florida's cold spell in Feb. He wants to add it to his Palm Beach ...

Florida wildfire burns 30,000 acres in Big Cypress as historic drought fuels smoke, road closures and threatens wildlife.

In the canals, marshes, and swamps of the Florida Everglades, invasive fish are silently slipping into new waterways. Among them are the Asian swamp eel and the bullseye snakehead, two air-breathing ...

American crocodiles on Sanibel Island in Florida could be mating at the northern edge of the range of this species, which they share with alligators.

The U.S. Geological Survey calls the 6-foot reptile one of the largest and most dangerous invasive lizards in the U.S. Wildlife officials urge residents not to approach the reptile and to report ...

City surveyors in Melbourne Beach, Florida, heard an unusual chirping under a road on Feb. 9 while doing routine work, and thought it could be coming from rats. Instead, they discovered a 7-foot-long ...