National Audubon Society

Swamped

Saving the Glades could mean screwing these guys.

Clever Green

Florida is starved for electricity. Some eco-renegades are growing their own.

From Bitter to Sweet

Forget the awful past, say Alfonso and Pepe Fanjul, Florida's sugar barons. It's time to make nice and go into real estate.

Deep Well Infection

A sordid tale about breaking rule number one: Don't shit where you drink

Spoiled Island

With no public input whatsoever, Miami officials have put together a deal to trade waterfront park land for massive cruise ship terminals and a lovely parking garage

Wiping Out the Spongers

A new crackdown on Biscayne Bay's sponge poachers has netted an entire Cuban subculture

Saviors of Virginia Key

Home on the Glades

For the Cuban cowboys of west Miami-Dade, restoring the Everglades means destroying their way of life

Giving New Meaning to the Word Trashman

A former top official at the Department of Environmental Resources Management is under criminal investigation for illegal dumping

Parks and Profits

Believe it or not, Miami's planning czar Jack Luft says he can make Virginia Key both lovely and lucrative

Calendar for the week

"It'll Never Get Off the Ground"

With nothing to show after four years but bitterness and bickering, the plan to turn Homestead Air Force Base into a commercial airport has gone from national model to national embarrassment

How Green Is Too Green?

Bulldozers. Pesticides. Fertilizers. If you live in South Florida, golf's threat to the ecosystem might get you teed off.