In late 2022 two people were caught stealing a ghost orchid and other rare plants from Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park ...

Opinion. This Sunday. June 8, 2025, marks the 119th anniversary of the Antiquities Act of 1906, a landmark conservation law ...

Involuntary mental health commitment gets at one of our society’s most delicate questions: When does our belief about the care someone needs override their right to decide for themselves?

Conservation district elections occur in unconventional locations like vineyards, barns and park gazebos. Votes are sometimes handwritten and manually tallied without privacy booths or computerized ...

Her parents have harnessed their grief to advocate for greater safety on the water. They are working to prevent others from ...

Charleston Waterkeeper, Coastal Conservation League lost effort to make DES use logic to review septic systems, but judge ...

Assemblyman Joe Sempolinski says a proposed state recycling bill would increase costs for families, farms and businesses if ...

A year after a Mountain Brook teen was attacked by a shark off the Gulf Coast, Alabama coastal communities are hard at work ...

One of Florida’s rarest and most beloved swamp dwellers, the ghost orchid, could soon see increased protections under the ...

Benjamin Harrison set aside the first national forest reserves in 1891, creating the framework for conservation of today's national forests. Our nation's most celebrated conservation champion, ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the ghost orchid, considered to be Florida’s most famous flower, ...

On behalf of Cape Fear River Watch and Haw River Assembly, the Southern Environmental Law Center recently filed a lawsuit in federal court against the city of ...