The flamingos’ triumphant return
Researchers and birdwatchers alike are celebrating the reappearance of more wild flamingos in the Sunshine State.
Tag: Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan
Restoring the Everglades to ensure South Florida’s freshwater supply
FIU’s decades-long scientific leadership in Everglades restoration is a model for the restoration of imperiled ecosystems worldwide.
Should Florida do more to protect its mangroves?
Mangroves are essential to the state — a native plant worth protecting to protect others.
Drawing inspiration from Everglades restoration efforts for Nepal
The ongoing restoration efforts in the Everglades serve as lessons for the Bagmati River Basin's restoration.
How restoring the Everglades can save the Florida panther and our home
FIU ecology professor John Kominoski has studied the Everglades for 11 years to understand the interface between land and water.
Everglades reservoir is critical to our water supply and needs everyone’s support
The Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir is the linchpin for every other Everglades restoration effort.
Two anti-Everglades bills deserve DeSantis vetoes
By South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Board Two bills that threaten the Everglades have not yet gone to Gov. Ron ...
League of Women Voters identifies seven environmental bills it supports and two it opposes
By Jay Rosenbek and Lynn Frazier, League of Women Voters Empowering voters and defending democracy are principal missions of the ...
Floridians have spent decades destroying wetlands and natural areas; there was a small victory in Martin County recently
By Maggy Hurchalla, environmental activist Florida spent its first century destroying its wetlands and natural areas. We were slow in ...
Gov. DeSantis’ welcome commitment to Lake Okeechobee reservoir and Everglades restoration
South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Board Twenty years after creation of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, evidence is building that ...