July 9, 2023 For thousands of years, Lake Okeechobee pumped life into Florida’s swampy interior. Summer rains swelled the shallow inland sea, creating seasonal overflows that sustained the ...

Lake Okeechobee has the highest estimated alligator population in Florida. Spring is in the air ... at the Seven Seas Lagoon at Grand Floridian Resort and Spa in Orlando in 2016.

Huge green blooms now regularly infest much of Lake Okeechobee’s 730-square-mile surface during the summer, producing toxic vapors and waterborne poisons potent enough to kill pets, or send ...

STUART FLA. — Three South Florida paddleboarders are on a journey to show the effects of the freshwater discharges from Lake Okeechobee on Florida's waterways. The friends are paddling 150 miles ...

Credit: Brian Lapointe Lake Okeechobee is the largest lake in Florida and the second largest in the Southeastern United States. Over the past two decades, blooms of blue-green algae (Microcystis ...

TODD THANK YOU CHRIS. PREVENTING TOXIC ALGAE BLOOMS FROM POISONING THE WATERS OF LAKE OKEECHOBEE. THAT’S THE GOAL OF THE SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT. THE LAKE IS ...

it feels appropriate to take a look at what's happening on legendary Lake Okeechobee at Okeechobee, Florida for February of 2025. February, headed into March typically means the spawn is on for ...

They happen every year in many of the state’s waterways, but recent conditions in Lake Okeechobee, Florida’s largest and most important lake, have some advocates worried that this season could ...

At the heart of the vast watershed that forms Florida’s fragile Everglades is Lake Okeechobee. A century ago the water of the state’s largest lake spilled effortlessly beyond its southern ...

Florida's Lake Okeechobee is essential for water management but faces harmful algal blooms, which thrive in warm, nutrient-rich waters. Daily vertical migration enables them to survive in turbid ...

Apr. 23, 2025 — Florida's Lake Okeechobee is essential for water management but faces harmful algal blooms, which thrive in warm, nutrient-rich waters. Daily vertical migration enables them to ...