Environment

Apalachicola Bay oysters, sweet and salty mollusks best served raw on the half-shell with a little lemon juice, will be off the menu for up to five years…

Jacksonville’s Resiliency Committee is being urged to consider turning empty lots and unused properties into green space to protect the city from…

Federal scientists are predicting that this summer’s “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico will be larger than average.

Palm Coast Republican Sen. Travis Hutson is co-sponsoring a bill to ban the import and export of shark fins. The proposal made it through a Senate…

Rhesus macaque monkeys have been in Florida since the late 1930s, when they were imported from Southeast Asia.Recent sightings in Jacksonville’s Julington…

A University of North Florida professor is leading an effort to petition state wildlife regulators to protect diamondback terrapin turtles along Florida’s…

A bill sponsored by state Rep. Cyndi Stevenson (R-St. Augustine) that would establish a statewide Office of Resiliency along with a statewide Sea Level…

Despite the advances made in lowering vehicle emissions since 1990, the amount of pollution generated by vehicles in Jacksonville has gone up 53% over…

Florida lawmakers defied a voter-approved constitutional amendment by improperly diverting money intended for land buying and maintenance to cover agency…

The dry weather coupled with a heat wave is leading to an increased risk of wildfires.So far this year there have been 38 wildfires in Baker, Clay, Duval,…