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“This is a health issue… we, as Floridians, need to be very concerned.“ Calls for serious attention to public health impacts from harmful algae blooms are on the rise and warnings like this one take on a new sense of…
Will you join us? “Troubled Waters” explores the human health impacts and emerging medical science of harmful algal blooms. Save the date to join us for a Miami premiere on October 24th at the Silverspot Cinema. The documentary screening will…
Pursuing a change in the operational management of Lake Okeechobee–like lowering lake levels in the dry season to protect human and environmental health as the Army Corps did this year–is one way to reverse Florida’s toxic tide now. During the…
Editor of Florida Sportsman Magazine, Blair Wickstrom, spends a Sunday afternoon enjoying the St. Lucie River, to close out September. “One year ago today the river would have been toxic, probably deadly, to our dogs. Plus the water would have…
This week brought the end of another Florida summer, sans some of the more nightmarish qualities of summers past. In 2018, we saw devastating consequences following months of toxic Lake Okeechobee discharges. People got sick, animals died by the tons,…
Dr. Larry Brand is a marine biology professor and algae research specialist at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL. He has extensive knowledge of red tide and cyanobacteria and has seen firsthand how the toxins produced by algal…
Thousands of voices stood up for our waterways during the LOSOM scoping meetings at the beginning of the year. We need your help again. Treasure Coast residents have the opportunity to make their voices heard at tomorrow’s LOSOM public workshop…
Plan for the worst and hope for the best is a philosophy that hasn’t always figured into Florida water management. But why not? As recent events have shown, we become more capable of lending greater security to human health and…
Here in South Florida, we dodged a bullet. Our neighbors in the Bahamas were not as lucky. Leadership by Rep. Brian Mast and the Army Corps lowered lake levels before this year’s rainy season. As Hurricane Dorian crept closer, state and federal…
Please stay safe and look after your neighbors as Hurricane Dorian tracks toward Florida. Thanks to a change in operational management that lowered lake levels before the rainy season this year, the Army Corps feels better equipped to deal with extra rainfall. We can…