Pollution

A plastic bag or a six pack ring floating by in the ocean would cause someone to cringe. Large pieces of plastics are easy to spot, campaign around and…

Sarasota County is under fire for the massive amount of treated wastewater that has spilled from its Bee Ridge treatment facility into local waterways....

Several people voiced concern Tuesday about 30,000 tons of toxic sludge from Fort Myers that will be dumped in a Polk County landfill. But there's...

Citizen scientists in Port St. Lucie found microplastics in their major waterways.

South Florida's water challenges range from sea-level rise to blue-green algae to hurricanes to waterway pollution . But entrepreneurs in the region's...

A new report shows Florida has some of the worst water polluters in the country. And some of the worst violators are in the Tampa Bay area.

Florida is the nation’s largest producer of sugar cane, responsible for half of the country’s crop. Sugar’s environmental impact here is bitterly debated…

Just imagine that you’re sitting in your home and you hear a loud explosion from down the street that nearly blasts your eardrums out. And then after...

The environmental advocacy group Miami Waterkeeper is suing Miami-Dade County for allegedly violating the Clean Water Act after finding a sewage pipe...

Over a period of eight hours on June 20, more than 700,000 gallons of raw sewage — poop and wastewater — spilled from a 63-inch pipe on NW 155 Lane,...