Stories tagged "Lake Okeechobee"
May 23, 2019
Last summer’s toxic algal blooms in Florida both originating in the ocean (red tide) as well as Lake Okeechobee (blue-green blooms) cost millions of dollars in economic losses and killed thousands of fish, turtles and other marine and aquatic animals. These...
April 2, 2019
The U.S. flood control system of levees and dams is worn out and not up to the threat that climate change is posing. On Sunday, The New York Times reported that across the flooded Midwest, the vaunted federal levee system that was supposed to protect towns and...
