Florida’s recurring red tides come with ever-increasing costs
Even in years with smaller blooms, the health and financial impacts can be severe.
Tag: Tampa Bay
USF scientists build on Deepwater Horizon research with new project targeting pollutants in Tampa Bay and beyond
The Tampa Bay Surveillance project aims to make clear the complicated state of contamination in Florida’s largest estuary.
Protecting Tampa Bay means fighting red tide
Red tide can cause respiratory irritation, fish kills and make coastal waters dangerous to swim in.
Milton grows to Category 5; emergency director ‘begs’ Tampa Bay to evacuate
The hurricane is expected to make landfall Wednesday.
Estuaries in South Florida are warming faster than the Gulf of Mexico and global oceans
Over the past two decades, sea surface temperatures in the estuaries rose 500% faster than in the global oceans.
Coastal wetlands can’t keep pace with sea-level rise, and infrastructure is leaving them nowhere to go
Sea-level rise means portions of today’s coastal wetlands will be lost to the ocean in the years and decades to ...
To save the manatee, we need to save the seagrass
A new rollback would jeopardize progress to save manatees, after their numbers fell sharply due to the threat of starvation.
Manatees should be listed as an endangered species, but don’t stop there in protecting them
Let’s not take our eyes off what is truly hurting manatees in Florida: widespread water quality degradation.
Water is ‘our way of life’ but makes Florida vulnerable to climate change
By Matilda Pollard, FAU School of Communication and Multimedia Studies The following is a Q&A conducted with Maya Burke, assistant director ...
The governor and Legislature need to address Florida’s many water-quality challenges
By Jon Paul Brooker, Florida Conservation As Florida continues to wisely invest in high-profile environmental initiatives such as the restoration ...