Environment

The federal forecasting agency plans to restore some of its losses from this year’s Trump administration cuts.

In a recent brief, FDEP disputes that the department, which in recent years gained permitting authority over septic systems, has violated the Endangered Species Act.

Florida’s top emergency official says a judge should resist a request by environmentalists to halt an immigration detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz in the middle of the Florida Everglades because it was filed in the wrong jurisdiction. Environmental groups filed a lawsuit in Florida’s southern district last month.

While wealthy coastal counties bear the brunt of landfalling storms, poor residents in inland counties are navigating an even bleaker insurance market that leaves them at risk of no coverage.

Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit seeking to close "Alligator Alcatraz," but the Trump administration has sought to distance the federal government from the project.

What first looked like a veto by Gov. Ron DeSantis for money to buy land in the statewide wildlife corridor is actually a shifting of funds. The $200 million will be restored to help preserve sensitive lands.

Indian Creek Village, the “Billionaire Bunker” near Miami, couldn’t get approval to discharge its waste into a neighboring town’s sewer lines. So the village quietly persuaded state lawmakers to come to the rescue.

A lawsuit could soon be filed to force federal environmental officials to reverse recent cuts in staffing at the largest manatee sanctuary in the world.

After losing nearly 600 employees to layoffs and retirements as part of the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the federal workforce, the National Weather Service is planning to hire additional staff members to “stabilize” the department, a spokesperson said.

A new report says that a record 38 million metric tons of sargassum piled up across the Caribbean and nearby areas in May, with more expected this month. It’s the biggest amount of algae spotted in the region since scientists began studying the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt in 2011.

The three-day festival and art exhibit will will combine eco-bus tours, an artist talk, and an exhibition inspired by Cara Judea Alhadeff's new children’s book, Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle.

A group is pitching the notion that tripping on some magic mushrooms or other hallucinogens might inspire “consciousness shifts” in the populace to do better for the planet.