Environment

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is extending catch-and-release measures in areas impacted by prolonged red tide. 

The gopher tortoise burrows are not hard to spot at Perico Preserve in Manatee County.

A public workshop will be held this evening in Hernando County to discuss the future of Weeki Wachee Springs.

The crews tasked with cleaning up after Gasparilla say they collected a record amount of trash, but despite finding more trash along the parade route, there were fewer beads in Tampa Bay and they don't think that happened by mistake.

For a city that seemed to turn its back on the river for so long, new interest in the downtown Tampa riverfront is flowing in a big way.  Renderings show a lush, green shoreline at the Straz where a flat seawall stands now.

With the next Super Bowl heading to Miami, Florida’s environment is on the minds of athletes.

An effort to impose a 12.5-cent-per-gallon tax on water bottled from Florida’s springs was tabled Tuesday before facing the possibility of being defeated in a split Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee.

Sea level rise could cause home values in Florida to drop, according to a new report out in January.

For years, abandoned boats have been left rotting, covered in barnacles, and generally considered to be someone else's problem.

Feral hogs are becoming more than a nuisance in parts of Sarasota County. The large holes they dig are not difficult to spot.

The mayors of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater talked Tuesday about the rising sea level and their cities' ability to handle what may come.