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Good flooding? Scientists use rice cultivation to preserve soil in Florida’s Everglades Agricultural Area

Each summer, nearly 25,000 acres (10,000 hectares) of rice is cultivated in the Florida Everglades Agricultural Area, a roughly 1,100-square-mile (2,800-square-kilometer) area south of Lake Okeechobee.

The Conversation

Influential Florida family sold the state thousands of acres of likely contaminated land

The land sits between the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park and the Big Cypress National Preserve. It is home to 39 threatened species

Latin Times

"To put your child in danger like that is unbelievable" – tourists interrupt alligator's meal to snap pictures in Florida Everglades

One woman brought her young child for a close look at the animal, which had caught a turtle

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Another use for e-bikes: python hunting in the Florida Everglades

"This gives new meaning to riding double!" Kymberly Clark, an avid python hunter, stated after "removing" a 10-footer from the Everglades.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Clueless everglades hikers make children pose for photo with alligator

The three youngsters are clearly uncomfortable, but their parents' desire for photos overrides common dense

Advnture

‘Wildlife Nation With Jeff Corwin’ Sets Up in the Everglades

Season 2, premiering Jan. 6, sees HMPG program partner with Miccosukee Tribe

Broadcasting & Cable

Everglades Restoration Complicated by Florida Agricultural Interests

Tariffs and sugar subsidies have propped up overvalued land needed to fix the environmental damage.

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Meet Florida's Python Bounty Hunters

Eradication of the apex predator is “likely impossible.”

Reason

Video shows guys subduing huge python in Everglades

A group of guys from the Tampa Bay area made an early morning capture of a huge Burmese python.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Long-held myth says Hurricane Andrew sparked Florida's Burmese python problem. Is it true?

The 1992 storm destroyed a python breeding facility, potentially setting hundreds of pythons free. But it's likely the invasive species had gained a foothold in the Everglades long before the hurricane hit.

LiveScience

With Florida ocean temperatures topping 100, experts warn of damage to marine life

The startling 101.1 reading was recorded in Manatee Bay, near Everglades National Park. The rising ocean temperatures, driven by climate change, are already endangering nearby coral, experts say.

WEKU

Enormous Burmese python killed in Florida Everglades was about to lay 60 eggs

Invasive pythons across the state are about to start laying their eggs after spring's mating season, with the 16-foot (5 meter) female caught being no exception.

LiveScience

Knight puts $8 million into push to make Miami ‘the most climate literate city in the nation’

In South Florida, surveys routinely show that residents care deeply about having clean water and air, and unpolluted water to swim and fish in. But when it comes to perhaps the biggest environmental threat yet — climate change — it’s not the kitchen table conversation that environmentalists believe it should…

Miami Herald

Dramatic video shows shark attack man and pull him into water

Recreational fisherman pulled into water in the Everglades National Park by shark

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Daily Mirror

Terrifying moment shark bites an unsuspecting fisherman's hand and drags him overboard

Fisherman Nick was washing his hands in the water at Everglades National Park in Florida, US, when a shark jumped up and pulled him off the boat as his horrified friends looked on

Miami Herald

DeSantis to pause bans on fertilizer. Advocates worry it’ll worsen water woes

Nearly $800 million for water quality programs. Close to $700 million for Everglades restoration. A $100 million Indian River Lagoon Protection program.

Zenger

Giant Gator Captured After Stopping Traffic On Florida Highway

The 10-foot alligator backed up both lanes of traffic for over an hour.

LiveScience

Burmese pythons are helping rats take over Florida's Everglades — and that could help spread disease

The invasion of pythons has had little to no impact on cotton rats, explaining why some areas are now increasingly dominated by rodents.

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Could handbags be the haute couture solution to Florida’s python problem?

Invasive Burmese pythons are devastating wildlife but one firm believes turning snake leather into accessories could be a win-win

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Hiker's video shows alligator noisily munching on python in Florida Everglades

Katina Boychew came across the two reptiles on a hike in the National Park last week

Tribune News Service

DeSantis fights for Everglades as he neglects climate crisis

One night in mid-February, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took the stage at the Breakers in Palm Beach to brag about how much he’d done for the environment.

Miami Herald

Asian swamp eels spread in the Everglades. ‘Potentially the worst species we’ve had yet’

For a crayfish in the Florida Everglades, its worst nightmare is three feet long, dark brown and pure muscle, with a mouth like a vacuum that sucks up nearly everything it can find — tiny fish, small shellfish, turtle eggs and frogs.

WEKU

In Florida, an invasive snail is helping save an endangered bird

The population of an endangered bird, the Everglade snail kite, has rebounded recently. Scientists it's all thanks to an invasive snail that has provided kites with a new abundant food source.

Tribune News Service

Python invasion has exploded out of the Everglades and into nearly all of southern Florida, new map shows

Burmese pythons are too good at what they do — they’re nearly undetectable to both humans and their prey, they barely need to move and when they do they’re deadly. On top of that, they have lots of babies.

Miami Herald

Signs of Everglades recovery emerge. Long way to go but ‘trending in the right direction’

After decades of planning and pleading for political support and dollars to restore the Everglades, there are growing signs that the massive multibillion-dollar effort is beginning to “get the water right.”

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