The Florida Legislature needs help understanding the root cause of declining water quality
Despite millions in annual water-quality study, Florida Gulf Coast University was appropriated $25 million for another study.
Tag: Caloosahatchee River
Hurricanes, pythons pushing north; expect another ‘summer of slime’
Welcome to The Invading Sea’s news roundup, a past feature on the website that we are reviving. We plan on ...
North Florida’s springs probably need to be part of a national park to get the protection they need
By Robert Knight, the Florida Springs Institute Once compared to the greatest hydrological wonders of North America, including Niagara Falls ...
Nature helps us heal. Are we willing to help heal nature?
By Joseph Bonasia, Florida Rights of Nature Network I live in Cape Coral in Southwest Florida and many residents call ...
A Valentine’s card to Florida’s trails and waterways
By Joseph Bonasia I asked the retired professor at the Glover Bight Trail shelter in Southwest Florida why he was ...
Now is the time develop a Lake Okeechobee plan that will protect our environment, economy and health
By Eve Samples, Friends of the Everglades For too many decades, Florida’s water priorities have been misguided. We’ve kept Lake ...
Everglades restoration enhances water quality and therefore benefits the state’s vital real estate industry
By Stephen Davis, Ph.D., Chief Science Officer, The Everglades Foundation America’s Everglades provides the drinking water for nine million Floridians, ...
The confluence of red tide and blue-green algae is a dire warning that someone needs to better manage Lake Okeechobee
By Eve Samples and Howard Simon The scientists at Brain Chemistry Labs have sent the people of Florida another warning ...
Cyanobacterial blooms from Lake Okeechobee waters coincided with red tides, placing Florida’s west coast in a toxic vice
By Brain Chemistry Labs In 2018, cyanobacteria from nutrient-rich waters in Lake Okeechobee were released down the Caloosahatchee River at ...
We should celebrate Earth Day by drafting a Lake Okeechobee plan that will protect the lake and the waterways that depend on it
By Eve Samples, Friends of the Everglades Two years ago, the St. Lucie River was a cesspool. Toxic blue-green algae ...
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