Algae blooms

Eve Samples: Buy the land south of Lake Okeechobee — don’t buy the excuses

By Eve Samples January 13, 2017 TC Palm Summer of 2016 State lawmakers have every reason to pull the trigger on buying land south of Lake Okeechobee this year. These are the biggies: ...

$2 Billion for Everglades not a silver bullet for toxic algae

By Jana Eschbach WPEC CBS 12  STUART (CBS12) — The President signed off on $2 billion Everglades restoration project this week, but will the money continue to flow south from Washington ...

TCPalm Trending: Weather Channel captures our filth on film

By Gil Smart December 12, 2016 TC Palm The Weather Channel thinks we're disgusting. And that might be a good thing. Last week a mini-documentary produced by the network was ...

Eve Samples: Do you have a case of ‘seasonal amnesia’?

By Eve Samples December 2, 2016 TC Palm Do you have seasonal amnesia? Symptoms may include: Ability to enjoy our waterways without having flashbacks of blue-green algae.  Forgetting the ammonia-like stench ...

Public must be warned about environmental threats

By the Sun Sentinel Editorial Board December 1, 2016 Sun Sentinel Three months ago, as Florida was still reeling from one environmental disaster — toxic algae blooms on both coasts ...

End stench and sludge. Save the Everglades: #NowOrNeverglades

By Orlando Sentinel Editors November 14, 2016 Orlando Sentinel A week ago, while most Floridians were preoccupied by a certain approaching news event, a 12-day bus tour concluded in a ...

Who’ll perform CPR on Everglades? South Florida chokes on guacamole

By Eric Eikenberg October 30, 2016 Orlando Sentinel Imagine that one of Florida's most important flood-control structures has been ruptured, and that every day, 1.5 billion gallons of toxic water is ...

The Riverkeeper: Just a Florida Man Trying to Save Waterways From Toxic Algae

By Meredith Rutland Bauer October 17, 2016 Motherboard Marty Baum jumped on a friend’s boat, his phone blowing up with frantic phone calls from fishermen. Forty square miles of catfish, ...

Guest column: Confluence of crises in Florida

By Wayne Mills October 12, 2016 TC Palm The state seal of Florida If things weren't bad enough with sea level rise flooding South Florida on high tides and especially full moons, ...