Florida PhoenixAugust 6, 2021
20min2610
‘We’re pulling tons of floating seagrass out of the water. I mean tons.’
Tag: Algae bloom
Florida PhoenixAugust 6, 2021
Kelly HayesJuly 17, 2021
6min1531
Participants held signs reading "Stop Feeding Red Tide," and "Expose Piney Point."
Kelly HayesJuly 12, 2021
6min2917
In the past 10 days, about 15 tons of dead fish have been removed from waterways.
Associated PressJune 18, 2021
4min1175
Current outbreak is centered in the Tampa Bay area.
Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 17, 2018
8min1040
Three Democratic federal lawmakers will work toward increasing water quality monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico and creating more wetlands to clean water flowing into the Gulf and other waterways. U.S. Reps. Kathy Castor and Charlie Crist, and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson crafted a preliminary action plan Wednesday after meeting with local scientists and business leaders about […]
Joe HendersonAugust 15, 2018
5min353
Red tide is in all the headlines now. It’s bad. But let’s go back to a time before Florida’s beaches were filled with rotting fish, dolphins and manatees. Back to a time when Rick Scott came to Tallahassee as Florida’s Governor in 2011 with a two-fold mission: Cut the state budget and get people back to […]
Staff ReportsAugust 13, 20184min498
Between the algae bloom and red tide, Florida’s coastal communities are fighting a two-front war, but the notion that the two environmental crises are linked is a myth according to numerous environmental scientists. The current red tide bloom began in October 2017, months before the first signs of another bloom in the coastal discharges released […]
Scott PowersAugust 3, 2018
5min1216
Rick Scott is blaming his Democratic opponent Bill Nelson for the harmful algae blooms devastating Lake Okeechobee and Florida’s coasts, according to a new TV and internet commercial from Scott’s Senate campaign. “Experts agree: Washington controls the dike at Lake O, so they have to fix it. And so we wait for Washington,” the commercial declares, as CBS News footage […]
Ryan NicolJune 7, 2018
4min267
Though multiple outlets are reporting blue-green algae sightings this week, the Water Resources Analysis Coalition (WRAC) has a message for the public. It’s not time to panic, just yet. Not all forms of algae are toxic, and it’s not yet clear whether the algae spotted by some is the same type that troubled Floridians during the bloom […]
Drew WilsonSeptember 15, 2017
2min304
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Thursday that it plans to recommence discharges from Lake Okeechobee tomorrow to slough off the excess water dumped into the lake by Hurricane Irma. The Corps said it will begin pushing “as much water as practical” through the spillway at Port Mayaca Lock & Dam on the east […]