The trend is here: urban fertilizer is being targeted [correctly we might add] as promoting algae growth and probably also worsening the red tide. Hooray for Northport, Venice, Sarasota County and all the other municipalities […]
This is a slow and somewhat painful process, but a necessary and too-long-delayed one. Congrats to leaders in Brevard with the courage and wisdom to begin. If we want clean water we must do […]
Read this excellent article and eulogy to Scott here in TC Palm. Thank you John Moran for your exemplary literary endeavors. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. -A river is like a […]
It’s a matter of money. We can clean up the water, but at a price. We can live without fertilizer, but we don’t want to. Someday there will be a reckoning. Before that happens, […]
Once again we are seeing our state’s water managers messing with Mother Nature and solving water problems by spending millions on methods which do not attack the cause. Not only are they attacking the […]
This is the type of first step that we need to do. How about the sugar farms doing the same? Let’s step up and put Mosaic out of business and save our state. Thank […]
Incredibly, Manatee County commissioners have the nerve to ask county citizens to roll up their sleeves and help clean up Tallahassee’s shameful mess. The good commissioners should demand and insist that Rick Scott, Noah […]
Word choice may mislead, and here “initiate” may be technically true, but “exacerbate” may be more precise and equally condemning. And many disinterested water scientists view a relationship between our catastrophic, nutrient-caused algae issue and […]
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