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

Friends of the Everglades is working to acquire 100,000 acres of land south of Lake Okeechobee to restore the flow of clean ...

From above, parts of the Everglades look like the map of a planet as seen from space, continents of sawgrass polkadotting an ...

Flow Equalization Basin, or FEB: A shallow man-made water storage area constructed for the collection of runoff that can be ...

Visitors and residents are concerned about big developments coming to Everglades City. Though it's a tourist town, they say the community is delicate.

But there’s mounting evidence that Everglades pythons have the ability ... Those areas are north of Lake Okeechobee in the Kissimmee River area from Orlando to Okeechobee and southwest of ...

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 Florida on the North New River Canal ...

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.