When it comes to tackling invasive species in South Florida, it's not just about spotting and removing. A group of University ...

Asian swamp eels are spreading through the Everglades and decimating crayfish populations, leading to comparisons with ...

The South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash prizes.

SCHOOL groups and tourists are visiting a cave with bats that carry Marburg virus, previously flagged as having pandemic ...

Police were called after a large boa constrictor appeared in a Palm Beach County neighborhood. Experts think it was an ...

Mike Darnay is a digital producer and photojournalist at CBS Pittsburgh. Mike has also written and produced content for Vox Media and the Mon Valley Independent. He often covers overnight breaking ...

Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...

A python hunter captured a nearly 17-foot, 202-pound snake in the Florida Everglades. While it is legal to eat python meat in Florida, health officials strongly advise against it. Testing has revealed ...

Earlier this year, on Jan. 13, a contracted python hunter working for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, eliminated a massive female snake from the Everglades. The hunter, Carl ...

Of all the schemes that humans have devised to keep sea lions from gorging on the salmon of the Columbia River basin, none has worked for long. Local officials and researchers have chased sea lions ...

First-year students may find it hard to imagine, but less than two years ago, deciding what to eat on campus required switching between dozens of links scattered across Barnard and Columbia’s separate ...