Protecting our water supply also can help South Florida fight the damage from sea-level rise
By Ryan Rossi, the South Florida Water Coalition Though the COVID-19 pandemic is still raging as the new year begins, ...
Tag: Lake Okeechobee
Wanted: New conservative leadership to address the challenges of the climate crisis
By Dr. Nicole Kirchhoff, marine biologist As a businesswoman with fiscally conservative political leanings, I grow angrier by the day ...
Gov. DeSantis’ welcome commitment to Lake Okeechobee reservoir and Everglades restoration
South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Board Twenty years after creation of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, evidence is building that ...
Water board indicates that it will study the potential problems of drilling 80 wells to store water underground
By Eric Eikenberg, Everglades Foundation The South Florida Water Management District recently approved a $14 million contract that could ultimately ...
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 ...
Bureaucratic bungling may delay the start of the vital Everglades Reservoir project
By Eric Eikenberg, Everglades Foundation Florida’s most effective response to the increasing threat of rising sea levels is one that ...
Fight brewing over how high to keep Lake Okeechobee
By Jenny Staletovich, WLRN Media As the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gathers public input on how to operate Lake ...
The water level in Lake Okeechobee is low because there’s been little rain and farmers continue to get a lot of water for irrigation
By Maggy Hurchalla, environmental activist The assertion that Republican U.S. Rep. Brian Mast has forced the U.S. Army Corps of ...
Florida drought highlights the need to complete the restoration of the Everglades
By Dr. Stephen Davis, Everglades Foundation South Florida experienced record dry conditions during March, with only a quarter of an ...