Archive | December, 2009

Pinellas County Florida Discuss Residential Fertilizer Ordinance

19 December 2009

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We all love positive stories when it comes to the environment. We love to see it when action is taken to prevent red tide.  We believe that prevention is best solution to red tide.  We believe it’s a very easy thing to prevent.  It looks like the citizens of Florida are coming around to this [...]

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Record Levels of Toxic Algae Hurt America’s Coastline

19 December 2009

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USAToday has compiled a special report on the records numbers of red tide blooms and other harmful algae blooms that have been plauging the whole country’s coastlines over the past decade.  They did a pretty great job, although I don’t think it ever made it t their front page and it’s only one page long.  [...]

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The Million Diatom Orgy

19 December 2009

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Scicurious from “Friday’s Wierd Science” has written a sexy article about a massive Diatom bloom that occurred off the coast of Napels (Italy, not Florida this tiem).  It’s pretty rare that marine biology can be sexy.  But since this story is and diatoms are what red tide are made off, we just made to mention [...]

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Land Animals suffering from Red Tide Exposure in Texas

19 December 2009

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It’s been long known by citizens, especially in Florida,  that red tide kills pets and contributes to deaths of the elderly and the sickly that are bed ridden near red tide contaminated waters.  The latter is pretty rare, because usually, anyone that has the resources to live near the water in Florida, has the resources [...]

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Dead Marine Animals Wash Ashore In Volusia

19 December 2009

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In the last few days, three dead dolphins have washed ashore in Volusia County, on Florida’s east coast.  Numerous other dead animals like a porpoise,  horseshoe crabs, birds and even a sea turtle have been recently reported. The east coast of Florida doesn’t receive as much red tide monitoring from the state nor do they [...]

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Red tide bloom from Nokomis to Englewood FL

19 December 2009

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As of the 17th of December no one has reported any fish kills or respiratory distress, but the Sarasota County Health Dept has reported low concentrations of the Red Tide organism, Karenia Brevis. Locals know the weather reports have the winds staying strong.  If the red tide intensifies a bit, it could be quite unpleasant [...]

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