Lake Okeechobee and the Caloosahatchee River "brings a lot of freshwater with it," the Mote scientist said. "Karenia brevis (red tide bacteria) is a marine organism; it doesn’t really like ...

The signs of bacterial blooms, the algae blooms, in Lake Okeechobee, and then on the other side, you have red tides. On both sides of Florida, you’re getting hit on the freshwater side, and the ...

Florida will build the 6,500-acre stormwater treatment area of the EAA Reservoir. The Army Corps will build the 10,500-acre, reservoir.

Florida officials announced a deal on Friday that would allow the state to take over a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project ...

A long-awaited new operations plan for Lake Okeechobee aimed at reducing damaging dirty discharges to coastal estuaries is being delayed another six months over new concerns about red tide and ...

"The ongoing Lake Okeechobee discharges to the Caloosahatchee River with high levels of blue-green algae could worsen the current red tide bloom by providing additional nutrients and acting as a ...

Facing a significant threat growing toxic blue-green algae outbreak in the Lake Okeechobee system and a red tide in the Gulf of Mexico, Gov. Ron DeSantis stopped in Fort Myers.

Meanwhile, scientists have ample proof that red tide grows by feasting on fertilizer contaminating the water. Gray says the toxins on Lake Okeechobee fertilize the algae.

"You can make red tides worse with something as big as Lake Okeechobee or frankly as small as Bradenton," he said. "If you remember how bad red tide was in 2018, that was the worst year we had for ...

Lake Okeechobee is currently at 16.3 feet, in 2016 the lake was at 16.19 feet. ... Adding nutrient-treated water and the existing threat of low-level red tide was like adding fuel to a fire.

Nutrients and blue-green algae coming down the Caloosahatchee have terrible impacts on the Gulf, but aren’t fueling red tide as far away as Naples.