Environment

The University of Florida Fellows in Sustainability Prairie Project Workshop brings UF professors together to develop new courses and class material in an effort to introduce sustainability concepts into the university.

UF students react to allergy season.

Newberry High School wins $15,000 prize for first place win in the Lexus Eco Challenge. The money will be split up between the students, their school and their adviser.

The recent temperatures have made it hard for local farmers to harvest peaches and other fruit this winter. Up-and-down temperature patterns can be dangerous for peaches and blueberries.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission hopes the day will help keep Florida's state animal around fur-ever.

While celebrating the 75th anniversary of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' book "The Yearling," Floridians remember three women of the same name: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Marjorie Carr and Marjory Stoneman Douglas, who each left their mark on Florida's history.

More than 250 animals in Silver Springs Nature Park must relocate before Oct. 1, following a Florida Cabinet decision to make it a state park.

Floodwaters have caused the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to activate all five idle-speed, no-wake zones on the Suwannee and Santa Fe Rivers. The FWC wants boaters to stay off of the Suwannee-Santa Fe River system if they can, but Parker said she hopes that boaters who continue to use it proceed with caution.

Drivers are urged to avoid the area or drive cautiously, with the possibility of smoke impacting visibility on the roads until Tuesday morning at the latest.

After a sinkhole opened on Thursday, and swallowed a Seffner man in the process, one UF professor discusses how sinkholes are created and how common they are in the north Florida area.