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If confirmed, it will be the third confirmed sighting of the bird in the United States and the first in Everglades National Park.

The Caloosahatchee River could suffer less often from high salinity levels in the dry season under a plan water managers blessed Thursday, but river boosters say it doesn’t go far enough.

The Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve isn’t only about science. There’s also a lot of fun to be had within the preserve.

The Fakahatchee Strand, the remote wilderness preserve east of Marco Island and north of Everglades City, is largely devoid of human inhabitants. Nevertheless, the area has a colorful history, including Native Americans, captains of industry like Henry Ford and Barron ...

Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating "dead zones" where fish cannot survive.

A dramatic decline in the size of the deer herd in part of the Big Cypress National Preserve has scientists puzzled and hunters worried. The National Park Service has been tallying the drop-off for the past decade in the preserve’s ...

It’s no small task for a man without a law degree to take a federal agency to court and claim victory. However, that’s just what computer science professor Mario Sanchez did. Sanchez spent years seeking information regarding the handling of ...

A crane hoisted a key piece of oil spill evidence to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, giving investigators their first chance to personally scrutinize the blowout preventer, the massive piece of equipment that failed stop the ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida has filed two petitions seeking to change the way state and federal agencies handle water flows on the Caloosahatchee River.

BP says it has so far spent $8 billion responding to the disastrous oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.

Stark differences exist between the oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico and the blast that led to the massive BP spill. Most notably, no one was killed and no crude was gushing into the water, but the distinctions ...

An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.

An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.

Anglers won't be able to keep a snook in Southwest Florida until September 2011 under rules approved today by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Catch and release still would be allowed under the rule.

BP PLC told the House Energy and Commerce Committee that it spent a total of $93 million on advertising from April to the end of July. The company says the money was intended to keep Gulf Coast residents informed on ...