From certain angles, Wakulla Springs looks like a virgin rainforest, the kind you might read about in an old adventure story.

DEP also faces a separate lawsuit filed by advocates who argue the department isn’t sufficiently protecting the state’s ...

The long-awaited move comes nearly nine years after a state law mandated the Florida Department of Environmental Protection ...

But with more than 1,000 freshwater springs to choose from, figuring out which to prioritize may seem daunting. To decide which of the Sunshine State's springs you should visit, U.S. News selected ...

Florida is home to more than 1,000 freshwater springs, places where water bubbles up from the ground and runs off the landscape. Like Meindl and his family, people have been drawn to interact and ...

Chances are they had been directed there by Paiute or Ute peoples. The lush valley containing freshwater springs that they found was described in their native Spanish as las vegas. The vegas ...

Life-giving rivers, which feed lakes and seas, are in turn fed by springs, creeks, swamps, wetlands and underground aquifers — all sources of water people need for drinking, growing food, recreation, ...

They live almost all their life underground, deep in small crevasses and cracks of small freshwater springs, where they subsist on a modest diet of decaying leaves and other organic materials from the ...