Manatees gather at TECO’s Big Bend Power Station every winter to keep warm. A new project is planting acres of seagrass to give them a fresh food source. Scientists hope the restored beds will be ...

Manatees have starved to death by the hundreds along Florida’s east coast because algae blooms and contaminants are killing the seagrass the beloved sea mammals eat, a wildlife official told a House ...

The mammals were removed from the endangered species list in 2017, but algae blooms and overdevelopment have killed 46,000 acres of seagrass,... As Seagrass Habitats Decline, Florida Manatees Are ...

Manatees rely on seagrass as a vital food source. There are seven species of seagrass in Florida, all of which are consumed by manatees. However, the IRL, a critical manatee habitat, has lost over 95% ...

SATELLITE BEACH, Fla. — Maintaining a garden can be hard work. Try doing it underwater. It may not look like it at first glance, but in a lagoon on Florida’s East Coast, there is an underwater lawn-in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — One thing ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Manatees are not the only marine mammals that suffer when seagrass dies off in Florida. A new study found that dolphins in the Indian River Lagoon starved when seagrass meadows ...