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The curtains are designed to prevent toxic blue-green algae from surfacing in canals, like the Everest and they do it by using a wall of bubbles.

Naples Botanical Garden is doing its part to help clean up our waterways by making a massive swale filled with plant life for filtering parking lot runoff.

Mote Marina is making waves when it comes to protecting sea life. The Laboratory is teaming up with the National Park Service and pharmaceutical scientists to develop a treatment for a lethal disease attacking corals. Corals are fascinating, colorful creatures that from reefs, providing food and habitats to the world’s fish and other sea life. […]

The pandemic shifted both the teaching and learning model these past couple of years at every age. Many still work to fill in the gap of time and lessons lost due to social distance learning. One group in Southwest Florida is getting back on board with their education. Give Chad Evers a choice and he’d […]

The cypress trees in the wetlands help fight climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the air, and they can be found across Southwest Florida. Chad Evers, an instructor with the FGCU Department of Ecology and Environmental Studies, led WINK News through the wetlands on the university’s campus. We walked into waist-deep water to show […]

Divers are installing a defense system against blue-green algae Thursday in Lee County to prevent another serious outbreak like in 2018. The blue-green algae threat in Cape Coral is being defended by a bubble curtain in the Plato Canal. The barrier created by the bubble curtain will deflect any blue-green algae from entering the canals. […]

There’s new information about airborne toxins in Southwest Florida as research expands. Concerns are growing about the impact on the community and the air we breathe. The Calusa Waterkeeper set up air samplers in various locations around Lee County last year after the red tide and blue-green algae outbreak in 2018. The main reason for […]

There’s now a plan to increase how often residents in Cape Coral can water their lawn in the hope it will improve your water pressure. Residents say change is needed because the reclaimed water system in Cape Coral is so stressed, especially during the current dry season in which a one-day-a-week watering restriction goes into […]

Cape Coral is under a water emergency: If it doesn’t rain soon, you may only be able to water your lawn one day a week, down from the current two days. But a pipeline connecting water from Fort Myers to Cape Coral could help ease those problems. The Caloosahatchee Connect Project was initially scheduled to […]

The Charlotte County UF/IFAS Extension Service is seeking volunteers to participate in the Eyes on Seagrass monitoring program to document the health and status of seagrass in upper Charlotte Harbor and Lemon Bay. The survey is scheduled to take place during a two-week window from May 3-17, 2022. The same sites will be sampled again […]