Harmful Algal Blooms

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.

The Army Corps of Engineers has been releasing water from Lake Okeechobee as Tropical Storm Eta bears down on South Florida. This can be problematic in more ways than one.

Gov. Ron DeSantis was back in Southwest Florida, Wednesday, touting his administration’s efforts on water resource protection at the News-Press and Naples…

Following a closed-door meeting with federal, state and local agencies on harmful algal blooms, Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Francis Rooney held a second roundtable…

This Friday US Congressman Francis Rooney will host a roundtable discussion at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida on the health impacts of Harmful Algal…

The severity of last year’s dual toxic algae blooms have raised awareness among the public for a need to find real solutions to these persistent problems.…

The red tide bloom that’s persisted along the gulf coast for almost a year now, has killed hundreds of thousands of fish -- if not millions -- as well as…

While scientists are still researching exactly how land-based nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus interact with, and increase the intensity of red…

We’re learning more about a method that's being tested to remove blue-green algae from the Caloosahatchee River and area canals. Much of it arrived via…

We’re looking at a preemptive approach to reducing the possibility of harmful algae blooms by reducing the amount of nutrients from stormwater runoff that…