Local health departments advised people to stay away from more than a dozen beaches in Southwest Florida. Respiratory ...

In more severe cases, red tide has been linked to impairment of some cognitive abilities, for which the best remedies are ...

A singular scene from last year’s red tide event in the Gulf of Mexico sticks in the memory of phytoplankton ecologist Vincent Lovko. “I got to go up in a helicopter with a news crew,” Lovko says.

Red tide cell counts are well into the "death zone" in Lee County waters as toxins in the Gulf have turned normally turquoise waters copper. The Florida Department of Health in Lee County issued ...

A swath of red tide stretching for more than 200 miles has formed from Tampa Bay to Key West and the bloom started near Tampa ...

The new methods and deployment strategies required years of research and collaboration from Mote and its partners, marking a ...

Red tides occur when Karenia brevis grows out of ... and Sarasota counties,' the The National Centers for Coastal Ocean ...

Satellite images show the unusually large mat of seagrass called Sargassum that USF scientists in St. Petersburg are tracking by satellite in the ocean.

Red tides are becoming a near annual occurrence off the west coast of Florida, which are caused by massive blooms of the algae Karenia brevis fueled in part by excess nutrients in the ocean.

A 100-mile-long bloom of red tide is floating off Southwest Florida, prompting warnings about respiratory irritation and potential fish kills on area beaches. Experts say weather could be helping fuel ...