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Aventura Magazine, August 26, 2026 Aventura Magazine featured The Everglades Foundation among the organizations and innovators helping build a more sustainable and resilient future for Miami. The article highlights how our work combines science, advocacy, and education to protect and restore the Everglades, South Florida’s essential freshwater resource. The feature explores The Everglades Foundation’s scientific research, policy work, and Everglades Literacy Program, which in

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The event commemorated a decade since the 2016 water crisis and celebrated Everglades restoration progress.

TC Palm, August 7, 2026 Photo by The Everglades Foundation TCPalm featured The Everglades Foundation and its partners at an event marking 10 years since the 2016 water crisis, when toxic blue-green algae blooms covered parts of the St. Lucie River. The blooms were fueled by billions of gallons of harmful Lake Okeechobee discharges, which sent polluted freshwater into the St. Lucie River estuary and Indian River Lagoon. During a news conference at the Stuart Riverwalk Stage, T

The Foundation convened a series of economic roundtables that brought together more than 100 business owners, chamber leaders, elected officials, and stakeholders to put a value on what a healthy Everglades delivers.

This year’s 9th Annual Teacher Symposium, themed “Stewardship Starts With Love,” drew 202 attendees from across Florida to explore how curiosity, creativity, science, and care for the natural world can come together in hands-on, standards-connected learning.

Miami's Community News, July 28, 2026 The Everglades Foundation’s Everglades Literacy Program brought together over 200 educators from across Florida for its 9th Annual Teacher Symposium, inspiring the next generation of Everglades stewards. Themed “Stewardship Starts with Love,” this year’s symposium took place on July 22 at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. The free event included sessions of inspiring experts who explored how curiosity, creativity, science, and care fo

July 21, 2026 Today, the State of Florida and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers celebrated a major milestone to advance Everglades restoration with the signing of a unique Project Partnership Agreement for state construction of the final EAA Reservoir component (a seepage management pump station) and the Blue Shanty Flow Way Project. With federal funds, the State of Florida will be able to advance construction of these features to line up with the completion of the constru