Python Challenge, a month long event is going to start from next year. In the event, hunters will be required to either kill or capture pythons in the Everglades and they will receive cash prizes.

Authorities in the Palm Beach County in the state of Florida has hired a new "climate change and sustainability coordinator."

A new study has shown that the invasive Burmese pythonsare disrupting the food chain in Florida’s Everglades National Park.

Experts said that the invasive Burmese pythons are affecting food chain in Florida’s Everglades National Park. An earlier research had noted that there was an increase in the Burmese python population in 2013 but new estimates showed that the number is falling.

It is going to be a treat to the eyes as 50 million Monarch butterflies are currently migrating to Mexico from their summer residences in Canada and the northern US. They will stop in Colorado to rest and feed on for the rest of their journey.

A report released by the World Meteorological Organization's annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin warned that this summer could mark the worst for corals in the Caribbean and Florida. The report stated that a new record high had been set by atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations in 2013 because of increased emissions of carbon dioxide.

A couple went for causal fishing in Florida and caught a monster shrimp. According to Live Science report, fisherman Steve Bargeron, while on a fishing trip off a dock in Fort Pierce, Florida saw the couple with a strange creature, which looked like a lobster.

A toxic red tide is threatening tourism and endangered manatees as it has now spread along the Florida coast.

Karenia brevis, microscopic algae, can kill fish and marine mammals, pollute sea food and turn the water into dark, brown-red color.

Florida's coastline is at risk from an algae bloom which could stay for months. This is the largest red bloom that has been seen in the area in the last one decade. The bloom has already taken the lives of thousands of fish and also threatens tourism in this coast.