Perry Beeman, a reporter for the Des Moines Register, had missed only five of the 20 previous annual conferences of the Society of Environmental Journalists since the early 1990s. He was determined not to miss the 21st conference in Miami in October.

The Miami conference featured five days of field trips and workshops and discussions with experts from Washington and around the world and ended with a guided walk around Fairchild Tropical Botanic

Organic farmers market their fruits, vegetables and meats as healthier for the consumer and the environment, with no chemical residues on the eggplants and no toxic farm waste run-off into the Everglades. Some growers even boast that their animals are…

It’s a frustrating problem for renewable energy advocates: Places like the Sunshine State produce far less energy using solar technology than cold and cloudy Germany. “The fuel is free, but to buy the equipment to capture and harness that fuel,…

Red ski hats went flying over audience members in South Beach Friday night in honor the world’s greatest explorer of the ocean, as members of the Cousteau family tossed the iconic caps at the world premiere of My Father, the…

A research team at Florida Atlantic University wants to float an experimental power turbine in the ocean off Broward County, hoping to use the power of the Gulf Stream to generate sustainable electricity. The university’s Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy…

The oceans of the world are in terrible shape and are getting worse, a senior ocean scientist told environmental journalists, government officials and other experts in Miami Friday.

Speaking on the third day of the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists, Dr. Sylvia A. Earle, a former chief scientist for the National

Should the researchers at ARKive ever find themselves out of work, they will be celebrating their layoffs on behalf of Planet Earth. Because theirs is an extraordinary – and, if they think about it too hard, depressing – mission.

Funded by the nonprofit Wildscreen, ARKive aims to compile the world’s first centralized digital

As the demand for seafood in America increases, a national program is trying to raise awareness about the environmental dangers of purchasing seafood that is caught using unsafe practices. Seafood Watch, an initiative created in 1999 by the Monterey Bay…

       Chemical poisoning of the world’s oceans is “coming back to bite us in the butt,” a leading conservationist warned Friday, with evidence showing that mercury in dolphins and other marine life in the food chain is raising contamination in…

Everglades National Park, an icon of the National Park System, remains the extravagant abundance of the River of Grass. Forty-two Society of Environmental Journalists members, including half a dozen international members from Colombia, Sweden and Poland, toured the park Thursday…