Southeast Florida is the 2008 setting for the Scripps Howard Institute on the Environment, an intensive week-long program of continuing education for working reporters who cover the environment.

Florida Atlantic University is inviting applications for year three of this subtropical training institute, conducted as a combination of field trips, visits to important natural areas and classroom instruction. The program, sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation, will operate out of FAU's Jupiter campus while leading participants on exploratory forays across the region, a landscape that ranges from water-logged to parched, that absorbs spiraling population growth amid initiatives to preserve dwindling green space, that supports the state's signature Everglades ecosystem.