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Minor detections of Karenia brevis in isolated samples; satellite imagery continues to monitor conditions. Over the past week ...
Red tide has long plagued Florida beaches, bringing coughing, burning eyes and piles of dead fish. Scientists have been searching for a solution for decades, but progress has been elusive.
Recent monitoring indicates that the red tide organism, Karenia brevis, was detected at very low levels in only one location in Northwest Florida over the past week. According to the Florida Fish ...
When a particularly severe outbreak of red tide hit the coastal waters of Southwest Florida in 2018, more than 2,400 tons of dead marine life washed ashore, according to a 2020 report produced by ...
The red tide that enveloped our coast from the fall of 2017 until January 2019 did $2.7 billion in damages to the south Florida tourism industry, according to a federal study released May 20.
When a particularly severe outbreak of red tide hit the coastal waters of Southwest Florida in 2018, more than 2,400 tons of dead marine life washed ashore, according to a 2020 report produced by ...
Trump’s sweeping NOAA cuts could harm Southwest Florida’s fishing economy, coastal conservation efforts and critical research on red tide and marine health.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — Researchers at the University of South Florida led a new study that is the first to identify viruses associated with the organism, karenia brevis, that causes red tide.
A University of South Florida study linked viruses and red tide, ... The study identified viruses in 11 pooled seawater samples collected during a severe red tide bloom in Southwest Florida in ...
Red tide is a natural phenomenon that has been occurring in the Gulf for centuries, if not thousands of years, with their impacts being recorded even by Spanish explorers in the 1500s.
A group of University of South Florida researchers have, for the first time, identified viruses present in the red tide blooms that periodically plague the Gulf coast. This can be used to possibly ...