cyanobacteria wiki creative commons In: Blue-green algae are not to be taken lightly | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Blue-green algae are not to be taken lightly

  The State of Florida has made a terrible mess of protecting and sustaining its waters, and we are only just beginning to pay the price.  Nutrient-fed algae have damaged tourism, more important even than […]

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Coastal ‘Dead Zones’ Are Multiplying. Seaweed May Be a Solution

Once again we are treating symptoms and not cure.  The only solution is to stop these nutrients from entering the Mississippi River.  The polluters must pay and the consumer must share the cost.  High taxes […]

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corralmiami1 In: To ‘The Fellowship of the Springs,’ Florida is selling out an environmental treasure | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

To ‘The Fellowship of the Springs,’ Florida is selling out an environmental treasure

    In this excellent piece, Oscar Corral documents very well just how Florida is killing its environmental treasure for money.  The spokespersons for the state agencies whom he quotes here in this article have no  […]

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Study: More than half of Florida’s manatees have the herbicide glyphosate in their bodies

  We seem to be doing our level best to assure that the manatee will not survive.  Our agencies need to act and fast! “Manatees are Exhibit A that Florida’s waters are in crisis and […]

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Why put up with monitoring? We should demand a cure.

Why do the people of Florida put up with merely monitoring our ills?  We should be spending time and money on cleaning up the mess and hitting the sources.  FDEP knows the sources but is […]

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DeSantis Gives Can a Mighty Kick Down The Road

Every taxpayer in Florida should write their governor and complain that he is absolutely wasting their money.  The algae in the big lake has been studied to death, even by its very own task force, […]

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