MIAMI (CBSMiami) - While South Florida beachgoers are having to deal with loads of sargassum seaweed in the water and on the beach, on state's west coast there's a big effort to get rid of red drift ...

Red drift algae is blanketing some beaches and sparing others as it creeps along the Southwest Florida coast. This algae, however, should not be confused with red tide or blue-green algae. A nontoxic ...

A black plume of decaying algae lined the banks of the Indian River Lagoon for miles on Thursday, as water management scientists maintained that polluted discharges from Lake Okeechobee weren’t the ...

VENICE, Fla. — Round after round of stormy weather over the weekend pushed piles of red drift algae along sections of the Gulf coastline. At first glance, and smell, it's concerning — but there's no ...

PALM BAY — Gene Cate once fished a crystal-clear seagrass bed near the dock at Castaway Shores. These days, stringy, rancid seaweed carpets the banks of the Indian River Lagoon along the condo’s ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A federal researcher in South Carolina has isolated the "smoking gun" — or "guns" — that likely killed some 111 manatees, 51 dolphins and 300 pelicans during the past year: ...

Drought, then extreme cold, set the stage for severe algae blooms that killed off 60 percent of the Indian River Lagoon's seagrass, according to a consortium of 26 scientists. But while their draft ...