New Book Outlines the Dangers of Over-use of Fertilizers
Dan Egan is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Death and Life of the Great Lakes. A two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times […]
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Florida Refuses to Clean Up Water
Even the threat of losing our manatees is not enough for our leaders to clean up our water. Florida has wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars in “make-work” designed to falsely indicate that they are […]
Officials: Starvation Threat Not Over for Florida Manatees
The solution to this problem is known to our water decision-makers: fewer nutrients entering our waters. Most nutrients come from too much fertilizer, both urban and agricultural, and from too septic tanks. Some money is […]
Research Shows Link Between Toxic Algae, Lou Gehrig’s Disease
BMAA, which is the short form of the toxin β-methylamino-L-alanine was not found in Florida by the Arizona researcher, but was “…found in every one of 945 analyses done over five months by Calusa Waterkeeper […]
Manatee Deaths, Algae Blooms Suggest Florida Waters Getting Worse, Not Better | Our View
Members of the Blue Green Algae Task Force, appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, who created the panel in April 2019, were asked: “What grade would you give to state lawmakers for their efforts to adopt […]
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