Alligator Alcatraz, Florida and Everglades
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A uthorities are releasing new details on a body that surfaced in a Florida Everglades canal early Thursday morning. Broward County officials say Ramiro Gomez-Diaz, of Hialeah, was discovered hours after they found his car submerged underwater.
'Everglades catastrophe unfolding before our eyes' say environmental groups about Alligator Alcatraz
Two influential environmental groups suing state officials over construction of Alligator Alcatraz are sounding the alarm over what they say is a “catastrophe” unfolding at the remote site of the state-manage controversial immigration detention facility.
Florida officials argue a lawsuit over the Everglades detention center was filed in the wrong court, as environmental groups seek to halt expansion.
Natural carbon sequestration by crops, grassland, soil, and oceans has a profound, positive impact on the planet. If rising sea levels reduce the efficacy of carbon sinks such as the Everglades, harmful carbon dioxide levels will only become more of an issue.
Collier County has made an offer to purchase waterfront property in Everglades City for $8.5 million. It could be used for a boat ramp or workforce housing.
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With its efforts to bring the art and environment closer together since 2001, the non-profit Artists in Residence in the Everglades (AIRIE) has not only grown in size, but in depth.
Researchers in Floridas are now experimenting with robotic rabbits, which they hope can be used to lure in pythons for removal.
Alligator Alcatraz, a migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, is surrounded by swamps infested with dangerous alligators and pythons.
Tom Van Lent was handcuffed in a Miami courtroom and taken to jail to begin serving a 10-day jail sentence in a case that divided the normally tightknit Florida environmental community. It caps a three-year battle between the hydrologist and his former bosses at the Everglades Foundation,
Lord spends his time living between the Florida Keys and Arkansas studying Burmese pythons. The work required Lord to haul live pythons in his Subaru for 21 hours up to the lab in Arkansas — after completing about six permits, he said.
Ozzy Osbourne and son, Jack, hunted Burmese pythons in the Everglades. Here's what the 'Prince of Darkness' had to say about the snake hunt.