Category: algal bloom

Happy Earth Day from KCI!

Earth Day began 51 years ago on April 22, 1970 as a movement to honor earth and bring awareness to the importance of protecting its precious resource

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Piney Point Predicament

Piney Point phosphate plant is a former industrial fertilizer plant located in Manatee County, FL. Currently the site is leased to various industrial

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Recreational Boating and the Environment

Tourism has become Florida’s leading industry attracting millions of visitors annually to the Sunshine state’s beautiful beaches, wonderful s

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Fight Storms with Infrastructure!

Hurricane season is now upon us here in the Southeast, and we look back on last year and all the damage that was done by hurricane season last year. S

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Ponds don’t Maintain Themselves!

Although natural areas may have Mother Nature’s idea of the best drainage system, the natural order of the land generally doesn’t work the best wh

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A Matter of Life and Death in the Gulf

Today, we take a look a bigger picture problem: The Gulf of Mexico. More specifically, the giant dead zone stretching through a large part of the Gulf

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Lake Okeechobee Algae Bloom: Hitting Close to Home

As of May 2016, a blue-green algae bloom has threatened the waters of Lake Okeechobee, a lake susceptible to high water levels since the beginning of

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My car is covered in pollen……

It’s that time of year in Florida where we are trying to keep up with that yellow film of pollen that is covering our vehicles.  Naturally, you wil

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What causes an algal bloom?

  What causes an algal bloom? Most of us have heard the word “algae”, but don’t really know where it comes from or how they affect our water

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