Back in the 1990s, when I was on the criminal court beat, I sat through more murder trials than Perry Mason and Ben Matlock ...

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

For millennia, humans lived as hunter-gatherers. Savannas and forests are often thought of as the cradle of our lineage, but ...

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

The state denies it has violated the federal law and says it has taken steps to lessen pollution in the Indian River Lagoon.

Amid an environmental threat to manatees in Florida, a federal district judge ruled the state violated the Endangered Species ...

Manatees are not the only marine mammals that suffer when seagrass dies off in Florida. A new study found that dolphins in the Indian River Lagoon starved when seagrass meadows declined as well.

Less seagrass means fewer fish, and thus less food for dolphins. Seagrass provided habitat for myriad marine species, from shrimp to pinfish to ladyfish. Essentially, the dolphins had fewer ...