Search results
Oct 19, 2018 · 19 Oct 2018. By Richard Blaustein. Rising sea levels threaten the diverse ecology of the Everglades. Scott Leslie/Minden Pictures. Share: Efforts to restore the rich ecology of the Florida Everglades have so far focused on fighting damage from pollutant runoff and reestablishing the natural flow of water.
THE 2024 BIENNIAL REVIEW. The 10th biennial review is underway. View the CISRERP webpage to find upcoming events. Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress X. Everglades Essentials. 2024 CROSS-CUT BUDGET. 2022 TASK FORCE BIENNIAL REPORT. 2023 INTEGRATED DELIVERY SCHEDULE (IDS) EVERGLADES RESTORATION DICTIONARY.
People also ask
What's going on with the Everglades?
Why is the Everglades restoration project so difficult?
What crops are grown in the Everglades?
Why did the Everglades reopen?
Dec 10, 2023 · See stories by Tim Padgett. Perhaps the biggest obstacle to the massive Everglades restoration project dissected in the WLRN podcast Bright Lit Place is the water polluted by phosphorous and other nutrients that run off from sugar cane farms.
- Senate President, Governor on Opposite Sides
- Everglades Supporters Speak Out
- Procedural Moves Limit Debate
- More Important Details
The water management district has publicly supported the direction the rules are headed in, which is not finalized yet, and said its priority is "balance" among all users. Those efforts have the support of Gov. Ron DeSantis, who appoints its board and who has made Everglades restoration a priority of his administration. The governor created a Blue-...
Eric Eikenberg, head of the Everglades Foundation, told the committee that no member of the Senate or its staff attended any of the 30 public meetings over the last three years, making this bill the first time the Senate has weighed in, mere months before the process ends. "This bill says if you do not convince the Army Corps of Engineers to put a ...
One exception for the potential new requirement if the district wants state cash is the funding already carved out for the EAA and other priority restoration projects named in SB10. Although the Senate version of the bill passed, it doesn't have a counterpart in the House, and it will become part of the budget negotiations. But because Senate leade...
Two other important provisions of the bill that didn't get nearly as much attention as the Everglades portion include a change to environmental permitting and land protection. The bill would allow the Department of Environmental Protection to potentially collect money in exchange for expediting environmental and wetlands permits, including for util...
Nov 6, 2023 · Today this region, known as the Everglades Agricultural Area, is among the nation’s most bountiful, raising rice, sod, vegetables like lettuce, celery and corn and most notably sugar cane, making...
Jul 1, 2011 · The recent news fails to point at the one source of mercury we know to exist, also in the highest recordings in the world: Everglades canals supplied by run-off water from sugar fields in the Everglades Agricultural Area.
