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 ...

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 ...

Redtown Ranch Holding LLC has applied for a groundwater production permit application seeking to drill 21 high-capacity wells in Anderson and Houston counties. The project would authorize the ...

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

In the Tang dynasty, Chinese merchants began buying rice on credit with a system that relied on trust and trade to sidestep ...

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, ...