Everglades

Python, more than 18 feet long, sets new record in Florida

2013-05-21 06:00:00

A record-setting Burmese python nearly 19 feet in length was captured and killed in a rural part of Miami-Dade County, officials announced this week. Measuring 18 feet 8 inches, it is the longest Burmese python that has ever been found in the area....

Sen. Boxer finds herself at odds with environmentalists

2013-04-28 20:11:00

WASHINGTON — Barbara Boxer has long been one of the Senate's environmental champions, racking up perfect scores for each of the last five years on the League of Conservation Voters' report card on key votes. But the Californian now finds herself...

Iraqi immigrant wins Goldman Environmental Prize

2013-04-15 06:00:00

During his 30-year reign in Iraq, Saddam Hussein repeatedly plunged the country into war, even transforming an ancestral marshland some say is the "historical" Garden of Eden into a battleground. To punish political enemies, Hussein built canals with...

Former O.C. resident wins $150,000 prize for restoring Iraq marshland

2013-04-15 11:41:00

Azzam Alwash, an Iraqi immigrant and former Fullerton resident who returned to Iraq in 2003 to lead a marshlands restoration project, has received the Goldman Environmental Prize, a $150,000 prize awarded to six environmentalists annually. Alwash led...

Bat-eating spiders: Bat death traps on all continents but one

2013-03-17 12:42:18

68 pythons found — gulp!

2013-02-19 11:02:08

Chaplain, three 'very young' kids among 5 dead in N.M. shooting

2013-01-20 21:18:00

Five people killed in a weekend shooting at an Albuquerque home included a volunteer fire chaplain and three "very young children," officials said Sunday. A 15-year-old family member was arrested and charged with the slayings. "Multiple weapons were...

Gun Appreciation Day: Five injured at three gun shows

2013-01-19 20:25:00

At gun shows in Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina, a total of five people were injured Saturday in accidental shootings as people flocked to the events on what was marketed as Gun Appreciation Day. In Ohio, Medina Police Chief Patrick Berarducci said a...

Python hunting contest draws 800 gun-toting sleuths to Florida

2013-01-12 19:22:00

Guns in hand, groups of camouflaged hunters trudged through the Florida Everglades on Saturday hoping to bag a giant Burmese python and a cash prize. Florida’s Python Challenge began Saturday afternoon, a monthlong event officials hope will help...

Nevada Democrat accused of threatening fellow lawmaker

2013-01-20 14:25:00

A Democratic Nevada lawmaker has been arrested on suspicion of threatening to hurt another state representative, North Las Vegas police said. Steven Brooks, 40, who represents the northern edge of Las Vegas in the state Legislature, was charged with...

5 dead in N.M. home shooting involving assault rifle; boy arrested

2013-01-20 11:46:00

Three minors and two adults were killed at a home in southwest Albuquerque in a Saturday night shooting involving an assault rifle, the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department said Sunday. An unidentified teenager has been arrested on suspicion...

Rahm Emanuel wants Chicago to end all investments in gun makers

2013-01-14 12:11:00

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Monday he was requesting all of his city’s pension funds to divest their investments in gun manufacturers, becoming the latest public official to use the purse as a weapon in the growing battle against gun violence....

Feel the warm wind against your face on an airboat ride in the Everglades. Count the gators. Loxahatchee Everglades Tours, 15490 Loxahatchee Road, Parkland, .

2013-05-20 14:13:00

Father and son airboaters rescued from north Broward Everglades. From left, Lt. Fred North, Capt. Tammy Henghold, airboaters William and Will Cazanas, and Driver Engineer Richie Krill

2013-05-17 00:00:00

Newly appointed Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, upper left, rides along side Rebekah Gibble, a senior wildlife biologist at the e Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, during an airboat tour of the refuge with Congresswoman Lois Frankel.

2013-05-01 00:00:00