Environment

A Sarasota congressman has recently filed two new bills affecting Florida- one regards federal red tide monitoring and the other would expand a moratorium on oil drilling.

The red tide organism, Karenia brevis, is persisting along Southwest Florida's coast. The toxic algae has made its way up to Manatee County from Collier County.

Local environmental nonprofits are hosting a free Earth Day event Saturday on the site of a planned new park.Regeneration Park is a “green infrastructure…

The red tide bloom comes within weeks of a major discharge of nutrient-rich water from the Piney Point phosphate plant into Tampa Bay.

Workers at the closed Piney Point phosphate processing plant in Manatee County continue to take emergency measures to reduce the amount of water inside a giant gypsum stack used to hold byproducts of the production of fertilizer.

After years of legal battling, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously rejected a lawsuit in which Florida argued Georgia has used too much water…

The leak could signal a repeat of a breach in the gypstack retention pond that killed untold numbers of fish and marine life a decade ago.

Back in 2018 at the height of the red tide outbreak, WGCU reported on dead birds falling from the sky in Collier and Lee counties. Now, The Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and Audubon Florida have concluded that those Common and Sandwich Terns died from diseases related to red tide blooms.

As the world continues to warm due to heat-trapping greenhouse gases, the public and private sectors are ramping up programs to pay farmers for trapping carbon dioxide in their soil.

Jacksonville is spending more than $1 billion to remediate failing and leaking septic tanks in 35 neighborhoods.The city’s phase-out plan stems from a…