The 2024 mosquito season is turning out to be an active, dangerous one for all of Florida as heavy rains have left standing water on most of the Sunshine State. The northern part of the state is ...

A stomach bug is making a lot of people sick in Florida, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Giardia duodenalis is a common intestinal parasite found worldwide, particularly ...

MIAMI - Attention lobster lovers: the 2024 Florida mini-season is now open. So-called "bug hunters" hit the water at the start of the season, 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, hoping to bag their limit. That's ...

Scattered between the vast sugar cane and vegetable fields of Florida’s heartland and the fragile marshes of the Everglades are a series of wetlands, resembling nature but hardly natural, that ...

Water is the lifeblood of Florida. Despite the state’s abundant rainfall and prolific aquifers, its primary potable water source, fresh groundwater, is under threat from a combination of population ...

Florida is on track to become the second state to ban tap water fluoridation. The Legislature passed a bill that awaits the signature of Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has criticized public fluoridated water.

While wading through wetlands in the headwaters of the Everglades, where tall, serrated grasses shelter alligators and water moccasins, agroecologist Elizabeth Boughton described one of Florida’s ...

In South Florida, drinking water comes from the Everglades, a vast landscape of wetlands that has long filtered the water relied on by millions of people. But as the Everglades has shrunk over the ...