Interior Secretary tours Everglades aboard airboat

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has made his first trip to the Everglades in a visit complete with an airboat ride, alligators and a big python.

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Fla. water managers approve $533M Everglades deal

South Florida water managers have approved Gov. Charlie Crist's deal to buy farmland from U.S. Sugar Corp. for use in Everglades restoration.

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Budget forces Fla. Everglades deal to shrink

Gov. Charlie Crist's celebrated $1.34 billion deal to buy 180,000 acres of U.S. Sugar Corp. land to help restore the Everglades is being scaled back by more than half because the state can't afford the original deal, the governor announced Wednesday.

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Water board approves Everglades land purchase

The organization that controls water supplies for most of South Florida has approved a $1.34 billion buyout plan to restore the Everglades.

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Fla. water board approves new Everglades deal

The board of the South Florida Water Management District has approved changes to a deal to buy U.S. Sugar Corps' land in the Everglades.

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Report: Everglades in decline as restoration lags

A multibillion-dollar effort to restore Florida's Everglades has made little progress amid funding shortfalls, bureaucratic red tape and disagreements, according to a congressionally mandated report that warns the vast wetland is in peril.

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Fla. says reservoir work might harm sugar buy

Florida's proposed purchase of thousands of acres of farmland from U.S. Sugar Corp. to restore the Everglades would be jeopardized if a federal judge forces the state to resume construction on a huge reservoir, state attorneys said in court Tuesday.

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Lawsuit: US Sugar deal violated Sunshine Law

Florida's proposal to acquire 300 square miles of Everglades land from U.S. Sugar Corp. was illegally brokered in closed-door meetings, an attorney claimed in a lawsuit filed Friday.

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Huge project to restore Everglades to be suspended

Construction on a huge reservoir meant to help restore the Everglades will be put on hold over a lawsuit brought by a group that fears the water could be diverted for other purposes.

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Reservoir larger than Manhattan planned to help Everglades

Around South Florida's vast sugar cane fields, where turtles grow to the size of basketballs and alligators own the marsh, the silence of the swamp is broken by the sound of rumbling trucks and explosions.

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Thompson Won't Rule Out Fla. Drilling

Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson seemed taken by surprise when asked Tuesday about oil drilling in the Everglades, apparently unaware it's been a major Florida issue.

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39 Burmese pythons were captured during the first phase from July 17 through Oct. 31

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Pet snakes released illegally are presenting a serious threat to the Florida Everglades eco-system. A herpetologist warns of the potential danger to humans if the two largest varieties mate.

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It's been about two months since Florida issued a virtual open season on giant invasive Burmese pythons gobbling up rabbits and rodents throughout the Everglades.

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Rescue crews are returning to the Florida Everglades to comb the site of a small plane crash that killed as many as fourr people on board.

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Jeff Fobb slid one of his most recent Burmese python captures out of a pillowcase in his backyard.

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The last Gladesmen: Survival, they say, hinges on historical, recreational renewal

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U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson asked lawmakers to pass a ban on Burmese pythons. More than 100,000 of the snakes, like the 16-foot one pictured above have infested the Florida Everglades. The snake weighed over 150 pounds when it was captured along a canal in Miami-Dade County.

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The strangulation death of a 2-year-old girl by a python has some folks rethinking decisions to own the reptiles. Meanwhile, Florida Sen. Bill Nelson is trying to pass legislation banning imported Burmese pythons.

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MIAMI – When the Miami Metrozoo

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With Snow maintaining a strong grip on its head, the massive snake hissed angrily at Salazar and the other federal officials who gathered around it at a recreation area off Alligator Alley in the vast saw grass prairie.

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In a state already crawling with exotic animals, halting the South Florida spread of a non-native bird called the purple swamphen seemed like a rare opportunity for success.

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Dont let them loose

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WASHINGTON -- Environmentalists are hoping for a new ban on offshore oil drilling. Immigration activists would like to see Haitians get a break from deportations. And everyone wants money.

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Author Stan Cox describes some of the concerns for environmental impact upon the unique and sensitive habitat that is South Florida and the Florida Everglades ecological system by human incursion and development.

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Florida's water managers agreed to buy nearly 300 square miles of land from United States Sugar on Tuesday, approving a $1.34 billion deal that could reshape the Everglades, the sugar business and several small towns that have relied on agriculture for decades.

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Florida's water managers agreed to buy nearly 300 square miles of land from United States Sugar on Tuesday, approving a $1.34 billion deal that could reshape the Everglades, the sugar business and several small towns that have relied on agriculture for decades.

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The state would receive 10,000 acres initially, but it would have to wait seven years for an additional 30,000 acres. That's a long time, and a pretty sweet deal for U.S. Sugar.

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This morning, U.S. Sugar Corp. and the cellulosic ethanol startup say they have entered into an agreement to look into building a 100 million gallon per year cellulosic ethanol facility in Clewiston, Fla., that will convert leftover sugar cane into ethanol. U.S.

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The state of Florida has agreed to pay the nation's biggest producer of sugar cane $1.34 billion under a revised deal to obtain vast tracts of farm land to restore the Everglades.

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Terms of the big US Sugar deal slated to jumpstart Everglades restorations efforts are changing according to this Palm Beach Post article.

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In June, Gov. Charlie Crist announced that Florida would buy one of the state's two big sugar enterprises, the United States Sugar Corporation.

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A federal judge struck down key parts of a controversial state Everglades cleanup law Tuesday and slapped the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce the federal Clean Water Act.

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Willie Drye for National Geographic News

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Following the state of Florida's $1.7 billion buyout of U.S. Sugar in the name of Everglades restoration, small business owner Jim Milloway describes the different treatment his business received from Florida Governor Charlie Crist.

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This week, the governor of Florida, Charlie Crist, announced plans to buy more than 800sq km (300sq miles) of land used for growing sugarcane, and restore it to its natural state.

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