When it comes to the seagrass beds that stretch across Florida’s largest open-water estuary, there’s some good news and bad ...

The results showed a 19% increase in seagrass coverage from 2022 to 2024 and preliminary observations indicate the bay was ...

City officials told the Tampa Bay Times they had to divert an estimated 1.4 million gallons of partially treated wastewater ...

The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven days a week that is available to read on ...

Tampa Bay Water (TBW) has proposed building a reservoir near the Lake Tarpon outfall for use as potable water that would ...

The amount of seagrass in Sarasota Bay, a critical indicator of the health of the bay, has increased nearly 20% in the last ...

We need to bring back seagrass to every estuary where it used to be so it can once again spread but if it’s not there, it can’t spread.” Project seagrass collected over a million seagrass ...

Necanicum Estuary Logs lay strewn among seagrass in Necanicum Estuary Natural History Park in Seaside. The Necanicum Watershed Council is inviting residents and private landowners to learn more about ...

Unchecked pollution in the estuary — stemming from wastewater-treatment discharges, leaking septic systems and fertilizer runoff — fuels algae outbreaks that kill seagrass and prevent it from growing ...

Florida Bay is an estuary protected in large part by Everglades National ... leading to the widespread death of its seagrass and fish. Florida Bay advocates are calling on government agencies to ...