The Army Corps of Engineers released over 48.86 billion gallons of water into the St. Lucie River from Dec. 7 through Jan. 23 ...

A prime suspect is Lake Okeechobee discharges that started a month ago, which floods the brackish St. Lucie River with ...

The Lee County area is the hot spot now, according to recent state reports, which show high toxicity counts here. Fish and marine mammal kills can start once levels reach 10,000 cells per liter.

LOCAR is a proposed reservoir to hold 65.17 billion gallons of Lake Okeechobee water, some of which gets discharged to the St ...

The waters of the winding South Fork of the St. Lucie River have the attention of those who visit Halpatiokee Regional Park.

even as a 500-square-mile algae bloom is spreading across Lake Okeechobee, it would not set legal limits on the cyanotoxins that make the blooms so harmful. “To reduce the pollution we know is feeding ...

Researchers at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) have discovered an innovative method to tackle this problem by turning ...

Local health departments advised people to stay away from more than a dozen beaches in Southwest Florida. Respiratory ...

Water quality problems bigger than Lake Okeechobee BY BRANDON SHULER Much recent hay has been made about the current Lake Okeechobee discharges fueling a lo ...

Effective management of phosphorus is needed to curb the rise of harmful algal blooms. Few studies have explored how algal biomass, especially blue-green algae, can be used to create materials that ...

Water releases from Lake Okeechobee into the St. Lucie Estuary ... "(That means stopping) the discharges, stop the pollution." In the meantime, Martin County is preparing to introduce these ...