Lake Okeechobee, Florida's largest freshwater lake, plays a vital role in the state's ecosystem and water management.

Lake Okeechobee, Florida's largest freshwater lake, plays a vital role in the state's ecosystem and water management. Spanning 730 square miles with ...

FOX 35 Meteorologist Brooks Garner speaks with Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Wildfire Mitigation ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - The Florida Department of Health in Polk County (DOH-Polk) issued an alert today, April 21, 2025, ...

The Florida Everglades is one of the largest natural ecosystems in the world, spanning 1.5 million acres from Lake Okeechobee down to the southern end of the st ...

The Everglades is more than just swamps, fan boats and alligators and restoration efforts impact more than the land between ...

Matthew Tkach and Sydney Bickerstaff share their unique lifestyle on Bay City's 85-foot schooner Appledore IV, teaching Great ...

2000: The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, or CERP, is authorized by Congress to restore and protect South Florida's ecosystem. The Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir is approved in this ...

Everglades: A unique subtropical wetland ecosystem that once covered about 3 million acres of South Florida. Water once flowed down the Kissimmee River into Lake Okeechobee then south to Florida Bay.

Changes in ecosystems have transformed the fishing industry, and that’s bad news for whitefish in the Great Lakes. The fish is an important and popular commercial species, but its numbers in ...

Commercial fishing on the Great Lakes was built on lake whitefish, but for the past two decades, that species has been on the decline. It's now on the brink of collapse in parts of two of the lakes.

1960s: The 143-mile Herbert Hoover Dike around Lake Okeechobee is completed ... is authorized by Congress to restore and protect South Florida's ecosystem. The Everglades Agricultural Area ...