Driving along the highway in Southwest Florida, you often look out into the distance and see verdant hills of green that contrast the flatlands, wetlands or pastures that predominate the view. These ...

The cypress trees in the wetlands help fight climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the air, and they can be found across Southwest Florida.Chad Evers, an instructor with the FGCU Department ...

Far from city hall, a new boardwalk juts out from a berm toward a cypress dome, home to thousands of native birds in the springtime, spanning over acres of shallow, filtered water at Orlando Wetlands ...

The Big Cypress leaves an indelible mark on you. The Big Cypress National Preserve is internationally significant, with water flows that sustain drinking water aquifers and much of the Everglades. The ...

Before you load the back of the SUV with bags of cypress mulch from the local garden center, think about Florida's wetlands and how dressing up your yard may be harming them. Several Treasure Coast ...

Florida cypress domes are unique wetland ecosystems named for their dome-shaped canopies formed by taller trees in the center and shorter ones around the perimeter. These ecosystems are incredibly ...