Rose Schnabel

In the 1980s, the state embarked on a major effort to clean up dairy pollution in South Florida’s waters. Florida bought out dairies, helped modernize those that remained, and strictly limited nutrient runoff. Half a century later, have the problems moved into North Florida’s springs country?

The dairy industry has long grappled with where to put cows' less desirable product: poop. Solutions turn it into fuel, fertilizer and worm food.

Measures to save water, voluntary since January, are now mandatory in much of the Suwannee River and St. Johns River Water Management Districts as drought conditions persist.

Frog Song Organics in Hawthorne will pilot a new “food hub” model to get more local produce into schools, prisons and community centers, Alachua County announced this week.

Students, scientists and area residents helped survey turtle diversity at Hornsby Spring on Sunday as part of the Santa Fe River Turtle Project. Eleven freshwater turtle species mingle in its depths, a level of diversity seen in only a handful of rivers worldwide.

Marion County firefighters fought throughout the day Sunday to extinguish a blaze of thousands of wooden railroad ties left by the side of the tracks near Dunnellon.

Host Kristin Chermont Spina interviews WUFT environmental reporter Rose Schnabel.

The permit’s scope is narrow. If approved, it would authorize crews to locate two dry stormwater basins next to a site zoned for retail.

Artists document Rodman Reservoir drawdown, the first since 2020, to galvanize dam removal.

“Florida is just a great place for snowbirds and snow bees."