The Indian River Lagoon (IRL), one of Florida’s most biologically diverse estuaries, continues to face a serious environmental threat: muck. This fine-grained, organic-rich sediment looks like black ...

We've probably all heard the platitude, "It took decades for the lagoon to get this bad; it'll take decades to fix it." Really? When I hear that, I think: "Well, I'll be dead by then!" The current ...

A dormant malaise lies in the liquid heart of Florida. Muck — an oozy, viscous blanket the consistency of black mayonnaise — smothers the majority of the 730-square-mile floor of Lake Okeechobee. What ...

A new report from a scientific research arm of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers looks at the chronic, growing problem of a kind of blue-green algae accumulating on shorelines of Lake St. Clair. The ...

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