Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025–2026, totaling $117.4 billion after $567 million in ...

Share Underwater, Florida’s Sarasota Bay is a cacophony of frying bacon, clacking typewriters, knocking wood. But in August 2018, an unrelenting algal bloom known as a red tide swept across the bay.

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Understand Pinellas County's fertilizer ban to protect water quality and reduce harmful algal blooms this rainy season.

Although the species rebounded following an "unusual mortality event" in 2021, environmental groups say a recent uptick in ...

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Real estate, tourism, recreation and other sectors of the local economy benefit from the protection of the Everglades, as ...

The Everglades have a positive impact on real estate, fisheries, and tourism, while also reducing flood risk and helping ...

Harmful Algal Blooms Red tides are harmful algal blooms caused by higher-than-normal concentrations of Karenia brevis (microscopic algae native to the Gulf of Mexico). Red tides produce toxins that ...

Dead fish on Clearwater Beach in Pinellas County, Fla., after a flare-up of the toxic red tide algae in 2023. Photo: Douglas R. Clifford/Associated Press ...

Florida’s red tide organism, Karenia brevis, has been detected at minimal “background concentrations” in only two samples across Southwest Florida over the past week, indicating a continued period of ...