Tag: Red Tide

September 24, 2019

Drug overdose therapy cures poisoned sea turtles

Sea turtles suffering from the toxic effects of getting caught in red tide algae may benefit from therapy normally used to treat human drug overdose patients. “It has vast positive...

December 20, 2018

Survey brings good news in bad year for manatee deaths

For Florida’s manatees, there’s good news and bad news. The good news: the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission believes the population is much higher than previously estimated. New counts...

December 10, 2018

Red tide blamed in Florida dolphin strandings

Officials believe red tide is likely behind the death of more than 22 bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncates) that washed up dead on Southwest Florida beaches last month. Officials with the...

September 6, 2018

Red tide suspected in manatee deaths

The number of manatee deaths in Florida so far this year has exceeded last year’s total deaths, and officials say Red Tide is partly to blame. Biologists say the algal...