Environment

Fried, a Democratic candidate for governor, wants to crack down on businesses that contribute to algae outbreaks.

The green bond will help Tampa tackle the problems that arise from inland flooding.

About 6 million gallons of water was released after a pipe broke at Mosaic's Four Corners phosphate mine.

Mid-October is the ideal time to plant strawberries in Southwest Florida. WGCU's Julie Glenn talked with Dr. Vance Whittaker with the Strawberry Breeding and Genetics program at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Gulf Coast Research and Education Center.

Burnett Oil Co. has proposed drilling at two sites in the Everglades of Big Cypress National Preserve, an important Florida panther habitat that sprawls across both sides of Alligator Alley. Environmentalists hope the Biden administration takes a more skeptical view.

Red tide continues to worsen along the Gulf beaches, especially off Pinellas County.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may soon declare the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct. The nation's largest woodpecker was first listed as endangered in 1967. And its historical range spanned Cuba and the southeastern United States, including Florida.

Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, has also filed a proposal to rescind the designation of the mockingbird as the state bird.

Manatee County officials are pushing for approval of a plan to pump hundred of millions of gallons of polluted water from the troubled Piney Point phosphate plant into the underground aquifer.

The “limited” harvest is intended to help the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission replenish the stock in the next three to five years.

Risk Rating 2.0 is the first major change to the National Flood Insurance Program since the 1970s.

Risk Rating 2.0 is the first major change to the National Flood Insurance Program since the 1970s.