The approximately $2.7 billion in tourism losses from the 2018 Florida red tide bloom emphasizes the need to view harmful algae blooms as potential billion-dollar disasters. (Image by Antoine Hart, ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated with new information. Red tide has reached the Florida Keys, and counts in Southwest Florida waters have been deadly recently as scientists measured more ...

The Florida Department of Health in Sarasota County issued a health alert Wednesday because of the presence of red tide near the following beaches: Ringling Causeway/ Bird Key Park Beach, North Lido ...

Red Tide is a harmful alga bloom caused by a naturally occurring alga (a plant-like microorganism) called Karenia brevis or K. brevis. When K. brevis appears in large quantities – typically in the ...

The smell of dead fish due to red tide is clogging up beaches in Charlotte County. Medium concentrations of red tide, or Karenia brevis, is shown in the latest map from the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Residents of ...

Red tide is still bloom along the Florida Gulf coast, but Sarasota and Manatee County beaches are currently in the clear. Satellite images published by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 100-mile-long bloom of red tide is floating off Southwest Florida, prompting warnings about respiratory irritation and potential ...