A judge ruled that Florida violated the Endangered Species Act by allowing wastewater discharges into the Indian River Lagoon ...

A very small, orphaned manatee calf is headed to Orlando for rehabilitation after being rescued Tuesday by concerned boaters ...

Researchers studying dolphins in the Indian River Lagoon found that when seagrass dies off, dolphins have to shift their ...

Contamination fuels algae blooms and wreaks havoc. Our investigation pinpointed alarming chemical levels in nearly 1 in 4 ...

Nearly 2,000 manatees died in the state in 2021 and 2022, a two-year record. Widespread water quality problems and seagrass ...

But it’s also about the time manatees start to arrive in the Panhandle from South Florida. The Panhandle Manatee Program is asking boaters to keep an eye out for the protected species along our ...

April 14 (UPI) --Amid an environmental threat to manatees in Florida, a federal district judge ruled the state violated the Endangered Species Act in regulating wastewater discharges into an east ...

Related: 565 manatees were reported dead in Florida last year: See local numbers Plaintiffs and environmental scientists argued that, even if the overload of nutrients from wastewater ended ...

TALLAHASSEE — Pointing to ongoing threats to manatees, a U.S. district judge Friday said the state has violated the federal Endangered Species Act in its regulation of wastewater discharges into the ...

A wildlife advocacy group has won a landmark manatee protection case, forcing Florida to scrutinize sewage problems in the northern Indian River Lagoon ...

FDEP attempted to refute the ongoing risk to manatees, citing the official end of the manatees’ Unusual Mortality Event caused by starvation in March. However, the judge wrote, “The existence ...