By LIZETTE ALVAREZ. Published: September 8, 2013. New York Times CLEWISTON, Fla. — On wind-whipped days when rain pounds this part of South Florida, people are quickly reminded that Lake Okeechobee, with its vulnerable dike and polluted waters, has become a giant environmental problem far beyond its banks. Beginning in May, huge downpours ushered in […]
In South Florida, a Polluted Bubble Ready to Burst With heavy rain driving waters from Lake Okeechobee to estuaries in the east and west, devastating wildlife, officials are looking for solutions.
Urgent need to complete Everglades clean-up plan By Miami Herald Editorial. Monday, 08.05.13 It’s happening again, and it’s bad. Billions of gallons of foul brown water are being flushed into two South Florida rivers to lower Lake Okeechobee and protect the Herbert Hoover Dike during hurricane season. Two lovely estuary systems, the Caloosahatchee River […]
By Krishna Ramanujan. August 2, 2013. Cornell Cronicle Climate changes have increased the occurrence of infectious diseases in some natural and agricultural systems, and developing predictive early-warning systems will be crucial to combat their spread. A review article in the Aug. 2 issue of Science presents the current state of the science and forecasting recommendations. […]
BY GWEN FILOSA. Key West Citizen. July 31, 2013. [email protected] The nonprofit Reef Relief has announced it opposes channel dredging in Key West based on the 2010 Army Corps of Engineers study that predicted such a project would have a "significant negative effect on environmental quality" and harm coral along 17 acres. "We […]
By CURTIS MORGAN [email protected] With Lake Okeechobee two feet too high and still rising after a month of heavy rain and far-off Tropical Storm Dorian posing a potential but highly uncertain threat, federal engineers on Thursday cranked opened the flood gates on the big lake, spilling tens of billions of gallons of polluted water down […]
See photo gallery for sea fan 'Message in a Bottle.' Credit and Larger Version July 24, 2013 The following is part five in a series on the NSF-NIH Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) Program. Like all of us, corals get sick. They respond to pathogens (disease-causing microbes) and recover or […]
By Nadia Drake. Wired. 07.11.13 Once a lush and healthy estuary, the Indian River Lagoon is now an enigmatic death trap. Running along 40 percent of Florida’s Atlantic coast, the lagoon’s brackish waters harbor a mysterious killer that has claimed the lives of hundreds of manatees, pelicans, and dolphins. Nobody knows why. In April, NOAA […]
The University of Western Australia Monday, 10 June 2013 Better land use is the key to preventing further damage to the world's coral reefs, according to a study published this week in the online science journal Nature Communications. The study, by an international team including a researcher from The University of Western Australia's Oceans […]
The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) has embarked on a process to potentially declare some conservation lands as surplus, and subsequently sell or trade them, or dedicate lands to uses other than the conservation purposes for which they were purchased. Unlike the Land Assessments recently conducted by the St. Johns River Water Management […]