Five migrants have died and another five are missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Florida, the US Coast Guard said ...

People who love manatees should embrace the animals’ habits — don’t pollute, don’t litter, don’t recklessly develop the Florida coast.

The US Coast Guard says it has recovered the body of one person after a vessel carrying Cuban migrants capsized off Florida's Little Torch Key, adding it rescued nine people and is searching for ...

Manatees don’t vote. They don’t lobby Tallahassee (too far from the coast to swim there) or Capitol Hill (too cold). They don’t participate in rulemaking procedures, public testimony, written comments ...

There are a lot of factors contributing to sea-grass die off and the resulting starvation of manatees, and the sea cows are not responsible for any of them — we are.

Outbreaks of red tide algae have appeared along the Southwest Florida coast, prompting public health warnings. Shane Dooley ...