STORY AT-A-GLANCE Florida is well-known for its aquatic wildlife — a natural resource that is now being rapidly decimated by the influence of factory farms and chemical agriculture
Red tide, covering an estimated 100 miles of Florida coastline and stretching miles offshore, has persisted for 10 months and shows no signs of abating
Thousands of animals, including manatees, dolphins, turtles, eels, crabs and other marine animals have washed ashore, dead, killed by the toxic red tide organism Karenia brevis, which now covers the east and west coasts Turtles are one of the hardest hit species, including Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles, which are on the critically endangered list
Aside from synthetic fertilizers, manure and glyphosate, biosolids (sewage sludge), which is often used as a “natural” fertilizer, also plays a significant role in the creation of algal blooms
bring it on! you should read about how warming in north pole causes polar vortex to push further south. pretty amazing stuff. humans have no control over what happens to Earth, it does what it wants to do when it wants and external factors can also have huge impacts (no pun intended) the sun is a huge player in global warming just as volcanic eruptions. one volcanic eruption in the 1990's actually caused global earth temps to dip for about two years.