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A team of nearly 50 researchers has determined that an algae bloom known as red tide was responsible for the earlier deaths of animals off the Florida coast. The research team found that the mysterious deaths of scores of turtles, bottlenose dolphins and manatees back in 2005 off the southwest coast of Florida was likely [...]
Continue reading...25 March 2007
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Mote Marine has another call for volunteers to be research subjects in a study they like to do over and over again. They want people with asthma, to study the short term effects of red tide on human health, again. Notice they aren’t trying to get rid of red tide tide here, they aren’t even [...]
Continue reading...24 March 2007
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Publicly announced, just last night at midnight, soem government officials are holding the Lemon Bay Watershed Conference right now. It started t 8:30 this morning and lasts till 3 this afternoon. It’s held at 3460 North Access Road, Englewood, Florida (the Tringali Center). I suppose the lack of announcement is to make sure that only [...]
Continue reading...22 March 2007
Lee County is being hit by red tide again. That’s pretty much makes it a 3 year red tiude for them, with a few weeks off here and there. A Red Tide bloom that doesn’t occur in the summer is dead give-away that something is desperately wrong. If there’s red tide now, just think wehat [...]
Continue reading...18 March 2007
Senator Burt Saunders, (R-Naples), is proposing a bill that would put millions of dollars into restoring the Florida Everglades. He’s hoping to eliviate red tide, black water and flooding problems that plague Florida. Saunders is proposing the Everglades Restoration bill that would allocate about $400 million a year for the next 10 years. He’s planning [...]
Continue reading...5 March 2007
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The algae that causes red tides off New England’s coast is not the same as that growing in the waters off southern states such as Florida, causing noxious fumes, shutting down beaches and poisoning sea life. Scientists say the northern algae contaminates only shellfish, making them unsafe for animals and humans to eat. Swimmers, fish [...]
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28 March 2007
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