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Fri, 2013-10-04 15:08 — mdmcdonald
This group focuses on the stresses that impact the Everglades and how the Everglades effect the ecology of South Florida.

This group focuses on the stresses that impact the Everglades and how the Everglades effect the ecology of South Florida.

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Everglades Under Threat as Florida's Mangroves Face Death by Rising Sea Level

Thu, 2018-05-03 09:43 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

The Everglades wilderness has already been reduced by half by the construction of dams and canals and to accommodate a booming population. Photograph: Getty Images

CLICK HERE - RESEARCH - SE Saline Everglades Transgressive Sedimentation in Response to Historic Acceleration in Sea-Level Rise: A Viable Marker for the Base of the Anthropocene?

The ‘river of grass’ wilderness and coastal communities are in peril, with the buffer coastal ecosystems on a ‘death march’ inland

theguardian.com - by Oliver Milman - May 2, 2018

Florida’s mangroves have been forced into a hasty retreat by sea level rise and now face being drowned, imperiling coastal communities and the prized Everglades wetlands, researchers have found.

Mangroves in south-east Florida in an area studied by the researchers have been on a “death march” inland as they edge away from the swelling ocean but have now hit a manmade levee and are likely to be submerged by water within 30 years, according to the Florida International University analysis.

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Once Parched, Florida's Everglades Finds Its Flow Again

Sun, 2016-03-06 21:44 — Maeryn Obley

This is one of several canals that will be filled to slow the movement of water through the Everglades, restoring an ecosystem environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas called the "river of grass."€ Greg Allen/NPR

Image: This is one of several canals that will be filled to slow the movement of water through the Everglades, restoring an ecosystem environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas called the "river of grass."€ Greg Allen/NPR

npr.org - February 19th 2016 - Greg Allen

When people talk about Florida's Everglades, they often use superlatives: It's the largest protected wilderness east of the Mississippi River, and it's the biggest subtropical wetland in North America.

But it is also the site of a joint federal-state plan that is the largest ecosystem restoration effort ever attempted — one that is beginning to pay off after decades of work.

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Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The Fifth Biennial Review, 2014

Sun, 2014-07-13 22:26 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Albert Gomez

National Research Council. Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The Fifth Biennial Review, 2014. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2014.

The Everglades ecosystem is vast, stretching more than 200 miles from Orlando to Florida Bay, and Everglades National Park is but a part located at the southern end. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the historical Everglades has been reduced to half of its original size, and what remains is not the pristine ecosystem many image it to be, but one that has been highly engineered and otherwise heavily influenced, and is intensely managed by humans. Rather than slowly flowing southward in a broad river of grass, water moves through a maze of canals, levees, pump stations, and hydraulic control structures, and a substantial fraction is diverted from the natural system to meet water supply and flood control needs. The water that remains is polluted by phosphorus and other contaminants originating from agriculture and other human activities. Many components of the natural system are highly degraded and continue to degrade.

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Anti-fracking petition

Thu, 2013-10-24 15:08 — admin

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has given the go-ahead to Dan A. Hughes Co., a Texas-based oil and gas exploration company, to drill an exploratory well and a wastewater injection well in Naples in a spot that's close to a residential neighborhood, the primary water source for Naples, the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge, and the western Everglades.

This drilling could easily destroy Florida's ecology, agriculture, and, yes tourism. 

If you wish to protect Florida and our environment, here is a petition you can sign to make your voice heard:

[Petition]

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Saturday, October 19, 2013 is Global Frackdown Day - attend an event near you

Tue, 2013-10-08 21:29 — admin

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On Saturday, October 19, 2013, there will be hundreds of events taking place throughout the world to bring to light the dangers of fracking.

See what events are taking place in your area

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Is Fracking in Florida's Future?

Tue, 2013-10-08 20:49 — admin

www.news-press.com - October 8, 2012 - Mary Wozniak

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Focus on Water: Florida Ups the Ante in Everglades Restoration with $90 Million Funding Surprise

Fri, 2013-10-04 15:33 — admin

National Parks Conservation Association - http://www.parkadvocate.org - September 24, 2013 - Sarah Gaines Barmeyer

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Disastrous flooding in South Florida is making the news again as water from Lake Okeechobee overflows and is released through the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee estuaries. Unfortunately, this is something that we see all too often in the region—the water that should naturally flow south from Lake Okeechobee is trapped by man-made barriers and confined to canals after heavy rains. This massive influx of highly polluted freshwater is destroying coastal estuaries and endangering public health, Florida’s economy, and the Everglades.

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