Getting out on one of the Everglades Boat Tours is a wonderful way to see more of the park. We have taken both Everglade ...

Florida's largest national park is a watery wilderness of incredible birds, subtropical swamps, and, yes, alligators.

Florida Bay is an estuary protected in large part by Everglades National Park. It has been plagued by problems from development upstream and starved for clean water. Now, years of work to save the bay ...

At Shark Valley, I took a rental bike and set off in the direction of an observation tower. The path led across a watery prairie feathered with saw grass. It was late in the day, and I was alone.

The Everglades ecosystem once stretched across a mosaic of wetlands and subtropical wilderness from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay. Unfortunately, by the mid-1900s nearly half of the slow-moving ...