Paul Giorgio

In just two years, a wave of major solar companies has filed for bankruptcy, the latest being Freedom Forever in April of this year, leaving customers confused, frustrated, and stuck with systems they don’t know how to manage.

In November, Brevard County voters will be asked to renew the Save Our Indian River Lagoon half-cent sales tax.

Orange County Public Schools is starting the new school year 50 bus drivers short, leaving some students facing longer wait times as the district works to address a shortage that staff says has never been worse.

Over the past year, Sea and Shoreline, in partnership with Conservation Florida and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, has planted 250,000 native eelgrass plants across a 50-acre stretch of the lake, a project that organizers say could have a ripple effect all the way to the Florida Everglades.

Chuck Gleichmann remembers when you could walk to the end of his dock along the Halifax River in Ormond-By-The-Sea and count the pebbles on the bottom. That was nearly 20 years ago. Today, he can’t see his hand 6 inches below the water’s surface.

A sub-adult loggerhead sea turtle named Wombat is back in the wild after spending three months recovering at the Marine Science Center in Volusia County.

Aquarists at EPCOT's The Seas with Nemo & Friends are rehabilitating 14 rescued sea turtles as part of a broader conservation mission that also includes manatee rehabilitation, butterfly tagging, and other wildlife programs largely hidden from public view.

Walk into SeaWorld Florida’s Coral Rescue Center, and the first thing you notice is the light - a deep, oceanic blue that washes over rows of tanks filled with some of the rarest coral on Earth.

The 2025 aerial mapping study, which tracks seagrass extent across the 156-mile lagoon, from Volusia County down to Jupiter, shows a 72% increase in seagrass coverage since 2023.

On a windy morning at Kelly Park East, a small group of volunteers fan out along the shoreline, clipboards and buckets in hand, eyes scanning the surf for one of nature’s oldest survivors.

On a sun-soaked spring morning in Central Florida, the 22,000-acre Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge is almost eerily quiet - and to Balog, that silence says everything.

A manatee’s journey from a storm drain to the open water captivated a community. And for one Melbourne Beach family, it became something even more personal.