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Water laden with blue-green algae is being released from Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee River to lower the lake level going into the heart of hurricane season in September. That often coincides with blue-green algae blooms upriver like this one at the Davis Boat Ramp, which is the topic of an ongoing Florida Department of Health alert.

It’s been one year since Hurricane Ian hit Lee County at a strong Category 4 intensity. None of us here that day will ever forget what the storm meant to each one of us.

Most stormwater retention ponds emit more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than they store at the bottom

Researchers at University of Florida are hoping to add another tool to the water quality sampling toolbox: a free-floating buoy dubbed ‘GatorByte” that collects data and transmits it in real time using a cellular signal.

Researchers at University of Florida are hoping to add another tool to the water quality sampling toolbox: a free-floating buoy dubbed ‘GatorByte” that collects data and transmits it in real time using a cellular signal.

Marine scientists with the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation are updating its crucial water-quality monitoring system in Southwest Florida for the first time since its launch in 2007. The SCCF’s marine lab is busy installing a new generation of sensors in their “river, estuary, and coastal observing network,” which they dubbed “RECON.”

Governor Ron DeSantis was in Southwest Florida on Tuesday along with his wife, Casey DeSantis, to announce a new tool to help people get up-to-date…

To improve water quality near shore, the Florida Keys has spent hundreds of millions over the last 20 years upgrading wastewater treatment systems and...

The city of Sarasota recently decided to fund a “living seawall” project along the coast of Sarasota Bay. The city is using some of the settlement money…