Florida is building the world's largest environmental restoration ... - BBC
Aug 16, 2024 · Florida is embarking on an ambitious ecological restoration project in the Everglades: building a reservoir large enough to secure the state's water supply. In February 2023, a large digger...
Despite historic funding for Everglades restoration, work falls …
4 days ago · Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District, which manage the work jointly, said money was not the issue: restoration work has received historic funding. The contract for the reservoir alone amounts to $2.78 billion and ranks as the highest ever awarded by the Corps’ Jacksonville district.
Florida Everglades restoration is progressing, but scientists say it ...
Oct 24, 2024 · The long-running effort to restore the Florida Everglades has seen progress at a “remarkable pace” in the past two years, according to a new report.
Florida plans $850 million in Everglades restoration projects
Apr 22, 2024 · Florida officials and environmental advocates on Monday touted major progress toward Everglades restoration, which has been advanced by dozens of state-funded projects.
Signs of Everglades recovery emerge. Long way to go but ... - WUSF
Mar 19, 2023 · An egret prepares to take flight in the Florida Everglades on Feb. 24, 2023. To Davis, with the Everglades Foundation, the progress in the last decade alone in Everglades restoration has been far more dramatic than the 20 years previous.
Everglades report highlights restoration progress, areas for ...
6 days ago · The past two years have seen major accomplishments in the implementation of Everglades restoration projects, thanks to record state and federal investments in 2022 and 2023, according to a new report. Natural system restoration progress is evident in large areas of the Everglades ecosystem ...
Money earmarked for Everglades restoration sets one-year record
Mar 26, 2024 · Lawmakers at the state and federal levels have earmarked a combined $1.165 billion for the next 12 month's worth of work restoring the Florida Everglades.
Everglades restoration moves closer to reality with a crucial ...
Feb 27, 2023 · The Everglades once flowed from just south of Orlando, through Lake Okeechobee, all the way to Florida Bay. It has been dammed and drained. The EAA, once part of the River of Grass, is now a...
Everglades restoration, including more funds, is underway - Sun Sentinel
Mar 10, 2024 · The natural flow of the Everglades has been degraded by farming, road projects and land development, resulting in the flooding of some areas, drying out of others, and hypersalinity in Florida...
Podcast explores effort to restore Florida Everglades - NPR
Jan 13, 2024 · In South Florida, 9 million people rely on the Everglades to absorb floodwater during storms and provide drinking water. But it's also an ecosystem in crisis. Bright Lit Place, a new podcast...