Amy Green

A record die-off of manatees in Florida has prompted an unprecedented effort to provide supplement food for the starving animals. But the manatees aren’t eating the food. Some 1,100 manatees

A record die-off of manatees this year in Florida waters has surpassed a grim milestone.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing listing the alligator snapping turtle as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Wildlife authorities are bracing for more manatee deaths this winter, after a record 974 perished this year in Florida waters.

Disney World is celebrating its 50-year anniversary beginning this month. There’s no doubt the so-called Happiest Place on Earth has changed the landscape of central Florida. WMFE environmental reporter Amy Green talked with Audubon Florida's Charles Lee about the theme park's environmental legacy, beginning with the Disney Wilderness Preserve.

During 2021 an unprecedented 937 manatees have died in Florida, more than double the five-year annual average only nine months into the year. The staggering loss represents 10% of the animal’s population in the state, estimated at 8,810.

Orlando leaders say the coronavirus surge is causing a shortage of liquid oxygen.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is facing the threat of a lawsuit over an unprecedented die-off of more than 905 manatees in Florida this year.

Orlando is looking to be one the first cities to try a new pavement treatment that can reduce certain types of air pollution by nearly half. What’s more, the treatment has the potential to lower ambient temperatures.

Landfills are among the nation's largest sources of methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide. But accurately measuring methane is a major challenge to reducing it.

Sarasota Congressman Vern Buchanan is calling on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reinstate the manatee’s status as endangered, rather than threatened.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is calling a manatee die-off in the ailing Indian River Lagoon an Unusual Mortality Event.