By Martha MusgroveAssociate Editor
In bad sci-fi movies, wild Florida’s giant snakes drop out of trees. Seductive frilly-leaf vines engulf forests in a matter of hours. Orange-striped aquarium fish with billowing spiny fins inflict paralyzing wounds. Until … a talismanic beetle, pop-eyed psyllid or mutating bacterium emerges to save the reckless.
In real life? [...]

By Martha MusgroveAssociate Editor
For years Florida farmers have had three words of advice for land-use planners about how best to save the state’s agricultural lands and prevent their conversion to housing: Keep agriculture profitable. Today, it appears, the “P” word also has a role in saving the Everglades.
Water is rapidly rising to become the next [...]