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Fired rangers at the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge in Florida got their jobs back, but manatee fans and local leaders worry that it’s only temporary.

A one-day manatee survey in Crystal River is the focal point of one episode of Jeff Corwin’s current series, “Extraordinary ...

TALLAHASSEE — Pointing to ongoing threats to manatees, a U.S. district judge Friday said the state has violated the federal Endangered Species Act in its regulation of wastewater discharges into the ...

Contamination fuels algae blooms and wreaks havoc. Our investigation pinpointed alarming chemical levels in nearly 1 in 4 ...

RIDES, slides and fairytale castles may be Central Florida’s most famous draws, but in Crystal River on the dazzling Gulf Coast, the best attractions can be found in the great outdoors.   This ...

Maxwell: Hundreds of manatees have starved to death in Florida waters, due to pollution. A federal job says Florida didn’t do ...

Nitrogen and phosphorous from septic tanks and fertilizer spawn the growth of algae in Kings Bay, the second largest ...

Joyce Palmer, who has managed the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge for the past nine years, is retiring.

On that February day in Crystal River, Corwin joined ... Conservation Commission and Florida universities to collect data and provide a snapshot of manatee wellbeing. “Just in a year, we ...