Everglades needs more freshwater to combat peat soil collapse
More saltwater in the Everglades could make climate change worse, a new Florida International University study found.
Oct 31, 2018
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Everglades restoration must deal with rising ocean, new report says
Are we restoring the Everglades just so the ocean can swallow a lot of it back up? Eighteen years into the multibillion-dollar restoration of the Everglades, a scientific review committee called Wednesday for a broad re-examination ...
Climate change calls for a fresh approach to water woes
The Everglades National Park, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, is home to 16 different species of wading birds and rare and endangered species like the manatee, the American crocodile and the Florida ...
Professional mediation can help Everglades restoration
A broker could be the key to saving the Florida Everglades.
Could a super snake emerge from Everglades pythons? New DNA study raises possibility
What started out as a straightforward genetic study of Florida's invasive python population has turned up a surprising plot twist: a small number of crossbred Burmese and Indian pythons with the potential to become a kind ...
For exotic pets, the most popular are also most likely to be released in the wild
Among pet snakes and lizards, the biggest-selling species are also the most likely to be released by their owners—and to potentially become invasive species, according to a Rutgers study published today in the Journal of ...
Snail kites must do more than move to thrive
Among its many useful traits, the federally endangered snail kite helps wildlife managers gauge whether the Florida Everglades has sufficient water. That's one reason University of Florida scientists closely monitor the birds' ...
Mangroves to mudflats and not back again
Over one-third of Earth's population lives with 100 km of a coastline and depend on the services that coastal ecosystems provide. With the intensity and impact of hurricanes expected to increase in the future, there is a ...
Python leads researchers to a big snake sex party with six males and a 15-foot, 115-pound female
Wildlife experts call it a "breeding aggregation." It's a more respectable way of saying snake sex party.
NASA mapping hurricane damage to everglades, Puerto Rico forests
Last spring, NASA researchers flew over the Everglades and Puerto Rico to measure how mangroves and rainforests grow and evolve over time. Five months later, hurricanes Irma and Maria tore through those study areas - creating ...
