ByMatthew W. Chwastyk This story appears in the September 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Florida’s famed wetlands, the Everglades, are pinched between a burgeoning Miami to the east ...

A Florida governor in the early 1900s saw potential for the Everglades land but only if it was drained of its water.

Since it lacked the distinguishing features of dramatic landscapes, many doubted whether the Everglades was even worthy of being a national park. "A swamp is a swamp," scoffed respected zoologist ...

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Just outside the city lies some of the richest ecosystems in the southeastern United States, and you can hop from alligator-watching in the Everglades to people-watching on South Beach’s Ocean ...

This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Washington’s Mount Rainier boasts the largest collection of glaciers on a single peak in the contiguous United States.