Captains for Clean Water

When the Army Corps stopped releasing millions of gallons of water down the Caloosahatchee River to lower the level of Lake Okeechobee, weather conditions changed, leaving the waterway nearly stagnant without water flowing from the lake toward the Gulf of Mexico; so the releases have resumed, but at a lesser rate

Smaller releases of polluted Lake O water before hurricane season OK with conservation group

Tom Bayles

There has been a change of heart that releases of polluted water from Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee River are no longer a near-apocalypse happening but rather a beneficial event

Environment

Water Quality Report: Lake Okeechobee is rather full these days

Tom Bayles

Lake Okeechobee is nearing the high-water level mark that the Army Corps is comfortable with, but a strengthened Herbert Hoover Dike and better management seem to be alleviating fears to this point

Environment

SWFL environmental groups say economic damage from next major algae bloom will total billions

Tom Bayles

Southwest Florida's most influential environmentalists share a report warning the next massive red tide or blue-green algae outbreak will be a multi-billion-dollar disaster.

Environment

Clean-water advocacy group adds Capt. C.A. Richardson to the board of directors

Tom Bayles

Captains for Clean Water has added Captain C.A. Richardson to the nonprofit’s board of directors. Richardson has been a professional fisherman and television guide

A NASA satellite captured the huge bloom of blue-green algae the same week in early June that Captains for Clean Water flew a plane over Lake Okeechobee and filmed remarkable images of the cyanobacteria. If heavy rains or a hurricane come this way the Army Corps of Engineers will release this water down the Caloosahatchee River to protect the people living around the lake rather than test the integrity of the reinforced Herbert Hoover Dike any more than has been done with the lake level over 14 feet

Environment

Water Quality Report: Video shows blue-green algae outbreak on Lake O

Tom Bayles

Lake Okeechobee getting full... cyanobacteria. If heavy rains or a hurricane come this way the Army Corps of Engineers will release this water down the Caloosahatchee River to protect the people living around the lake

The Earth's poles have tilted since pumping water from underground has upset the planet's internal equilibrium more than it already is by a host of other factors

Environment

Water Quality Report: How much H2O does it take to change the Earth's poles?

Tom Bayles

By pumping water out of the ground humans have redistributed so much water from beneath the surface we’ve tilted the Earth's poles. It is perhaps the second-largest contributor to sea-level rise

Environmental Roundup May 14, 2021

John Davis

We are all connected by the environment we share. The Earth is our home. This is the space where we share the environmental stories that caught our attention this week, in Florida and beyond.

Environment

Scientists Look for Link Between Releases and Red Tide

Julie Glenn

While some observers of Florida’s water woes see an obvious correlation between Lake Okeechobee releases and the worst red tide outbreak in modern memory,…

Environment

Blue-green Algae and Red Tide Algae Plague Southwest Florida Waters

Julie Glenn

While red tide rages along Southwest Florida’s Gulf coast, blue-green algae is making its way westward along the Caloosahatchee River toward the Gulf. The…