Lake Okeechobee, Florida's largest freshwater ... throughout the day in the central part of the lake, and analyzed satellite images taken several hours apart. These combined observations confirmed ...

Summer is blue-green algae season, and the potentially toxic mess is starting to show up in various places around south Florida and in the Lake Okeechobee ... green from the satellite imagery ...

Lake Okeechobee discharges to the St. Lucie River ... spokesperson Erica Skolte said in an email to TCPalm. A March 9 satellite image shows "very low blue-green/almost non-existent," she added ...

A NOAA satellite image captured of Lake Okeechobee on June 14 shows algae blooms cover about half of the lake -- about 380 square miles. NOAA The EPA considers microcystis aeruginosa, the toxic ...

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 ...

And algae season is only getting started. Writer Dan Egan and photographer Josh Ritchie reported from Okeechobee’s shores, dodging the lake’s noxious fumes to understand the crisis and its costs.

The Ortona Lock and Dam, a structure on the Caloosahatchee River in Florida that was built for navigation and flood control; algae on Lake Okeechobee ... and analyzed satellite images taken ...

Florida's Lake Okeechobee is essential for water management ... the day in the central part of the lake, and analyzed satellite images taken several hours apart. These combined observations ...