Wetlands

A new data analysis shows that population is surging on Florida’s barrier islands despite rising seas and worsening storms. Florida politics and policies continue to champion the growth.

A new report is raising concern about too much polluted water from Florida’s agricultural lands in the Everglades.

On this week's Florida Roundup: This is the first time in over a century there’s not a single Democrat in statewide elected office. Also: the 2023 legislative session is coming, and the state may preempt local control over water quality, pollution and wetlands.

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced funding for another 113 projects, including a $25 million mobile home wastewater collection project in Pinellas County.

The bill would create seagrass mitigation banks, allowing property owner to buy credits in privately managed seagrass meadows to offset the destruction caused by construction.

Kathy Guindon, the director of the Suncoast Youth Conservation Center, uses her passion for the ocean to teach and encourage children to become future stewards of the environment in order to combat climate change.

More than 450 acres is covered by wetlands, making development permits difficult to obtain, the report commissioned by USF said.

Conservationists have a 5-amendment rights of nature ballot drive going on right now. This is the third in a series looking at each of the rights of nature amendments. Today's story is about the Florida Wetlands Protection Amendment.

Chuck O'Neal, chairman of the Florida Rights of Nature Network, discusses the impact five amendments to the Florida constitution will have across the state.

The Rights of Nature initiative was overwhelmingly passed by Orange County voters last fall. Now, activists statewide are hoping to get not just one, but five Rights of Nature constitutional amendment changes on the ballot in 2022.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, and three of his four Florida Cabinet members, rejected a judge's order that found Miami-Dade County plans for the highway failed to comply with state growth laws.

Rather than relaxing during their spring break, some University of South Florida students are organizing to stop the college from seeking proposals to develop a golf course and forest preserve near the Tampa campus.