U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Rubber tires from artificial reef become art in Wynwood

Artificial Reef Catastrophe to Become Art Exhibit: Four Tons of Ocean Tires Headed to Wynwood

​In 1972, a nonprofit group came up with a brilliant idea: Create a three-mile-long artificial reef off the South Florida coast using 2 million old tires. Goodyear donated the rubber, Broward County forked over the funds, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers signed off. The plan quickly went to he ... More >>

Coral Morphologic: Aquatic Ambassadors

​In 1972, a nonprofit group came up with a brilliant idea: Create a three-mile-long artificial reef off the South Florida coast using 2 million old tires. Goodyear donated the rubber, Broward County forked over the funds, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers signed off. The plan quickly went to he ... More >>

Port of Miami Dredge Project Rankles Even the Rich: Fisher Island Residents Pissed, Could Sue

Fisher Island Community Association's president worries that the Port of Miami dredge will damage properties​This weekend, Port of Miami director Bill Johnson wrote to The Miami Herald to rebut "naysayers" who just don't understand what an "enviable position" the city will be in once we've blasted ... More >>

The Big Uneasy: New Orleans's enemy wasn't Katrina

Fisher Island Community Association's president worries that the Port of Miami dredge will damage properties​This weekend, Port of Miami director Bill Johnson wrote to The Miami Herald to rebut "naysayers" who just don't understand what an "enviable position" the city will be in once we've blasted ... More >>

Score One for the Enviro-Boys: Lake Belt Plan Shot Down Again

​A federal appeals court Thursday shot down a case that greatly endangered both Miami-Dade's drinking water and Everglades National Park. The three-judge panel confirmed last year's decision to side with the Sierra Club and several other groups against the Army Corps of Engineers. In 2002, th ... More >>

Army Corps Employee Sentenced Over Everglades Restoration Bribery Scheme

Our feature earlier this month about the never-ending disaster we call Everglades restoration left little doubt that the Army Corps of Engineers deserves a lot of blame. After all, these are the guys who gutted the Glades in the first place with miles of canals and drainage systems. And these are t ... More >>

Swamped

Saving the Glades could mean screwing these guys.

Mining Industry Shuts Out Meddlesome Lawyer

Saving the Glades could mean screwing these guys.

Poisoned Well

What was contaminating our drinking water? Who knows - Dade officials stopped looking.

This Land Is Their Mine

Rock miners are prepared to dig near the Everglades.

Pearls Before Pigs

A haywire hunting trip in the Everglades for an elusive oinker.

Letters from the Issue of March 8, 2007

"We are swimming in a sea of pollution."

Time Keeps on Slipping ...

"We are swimming in a sea of pollution."

BEST BEACH

Virginia Key Beach

Benefits of Grass

Virginia Key Beach

River Daze

Waterway tells a city's story

Eye on the Everglades

As the acknowledged scientific expert on the Glades, Ron Jones brought Florida International University prestige and millions in grants, so naturally the school tried to have him arrested

Beneath the Pink Underwear

Water pollution is more serious than the WASD plan would have you believe

Happy on the Outside

Everglades National Park's sub-surface tsuris

God's Eye on the Sparrow

Should 2700 little birds be allowed to hold up the reclaiming of the Everglades?

Letters from the Issue of April 25, 2002

The Everglades, dead fish, and dictators

Dredge Dirge

Authorities are in a pickle over where to dump the toxic sludge soon to be scraped from the Miami River

Better Lake Than Never?

Officials insist the Lake Belt created by limestone mining in Northwest Miami-Dade will be an eco-panacea. Critics say that's all wet.

Swamp and Circumstance

Planners hope the Natural System Model can help restore the Everglades. But will it survive politics?

Best Rural Bike Ride

Southern Glades Trail

No Sale

The state once aimed to buy a big chunk of the Everglades. But that was before Dexter Lehtinen came along.

Home on the Glades

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

Life's a Ditch

Residents of the controversial 8 1/2 Square Mile Area fear a government conspiracy to flush them from their homes

Letters

Residents of the controversial 8 1/2 Square Mile Area fear a government conspiracy to flush them from their homes

Really for the Birds

A weird government plan to help save an endangered species winds up threatening to defile the Everglades

Pond Scum

When Coral Gables officials see a tiny lake in the middle of their fair city, they think ... shopping mall!

The Polo Wars

What happens when rich developers propose a luxury club be built on fragile Everglades wetlands? The horse manure hits the fan.

Goo Grief

There's a million cubic yards of toxic sludge on the bottom of the Miami River and you may as well get used to it

Great Job, Terry! Now Pack Your Bags

Everyone seems to love the Florida commander of the Army Corps of Engineers. So why do his superiors want him to leave?

A Brief History of the Miccosukees

Everyone seems to love the Florida commander of the Army Corps of Engineers. So why do his superiors want him to leave?

The Last of the Indian Wars

The fight may be about houses in the Everglades, but the battle is about Miccosukee independence by paula park

Torpedoed on the Tamiami Trail

Long a staple of the Everglades tourist's itinerary, the airboat tour takes a direct hit from the feds

Why Recycle?

It feels good to do it. But recycling doesn't always save money or protect the environment.

The Sands of Time

It feels good to do it. But recycling doesn't always save money or protect the environment.

Where's the Beach?

The true story behind the beach erosion explosion is politics as usual

If You Sink It, They Will Come

Creating an artificial reef is no longer a slam-dunk affair, despite an abundance of missile sites, water towers, and wanna-be philanthropists

Left Out

When Everglades National Park chief Dick Ring held a feel-good camp-out in the Dry Tortugas, he really toasted some people's marshmallows

GET THE KIDS INSIDE! BOLT THE DOOR!

Toxic sewage spawns swamp monsters; officials say no cause for alarm

The Last Frontier

When authorities pledged to reflood the Everglades, they tried to accommodate residents of the 8 1/2 Square Mile Area in Southwest Dade. They're still trying.

Running on Empty

A century of messing with Mother Nature has robbed the Everglades of too much water. Now we don't even have enough for ourselves.

Gully Gee!

A century of messing with Mother Nature has robbed the Everglades of too much water. Now we don't even have enough for ourselves.

We are now scrambling to find additional supplies of water. Among their most immediate measures, they recently requested permission from the state to pump more water for treatment at the Hialeah-Preston plants.

A century of messing with Mother Nature has robbed the Everglades of too much water. Now we don't even have enough for ourselves.

We Don't Swim in Your Toilet

So don't complain when we spill 25 million gallons of sewage onto your beaches

Hoodwinked!

Upper Biscayne Bay party boaters claim environmental technocrats killed Beer Can Island. And framed Hurricane Andrew.