Biscayne Bay

In its latest draft work schedule, finishing the massive Everglades reservoir would be pushed back four years to 2034, while work to move water south has also fallen behind. Asking Congress to approve Biscayne Bay projects would be delayed another two years.

Miami-Dade officials released the 2024 Biscayne Bay Report Card. The results of which showed almost no change in the overall health of the Bay, which was already not in the best state.

Responses from a 2022 survey of more than 1,000 Miami-Dade residents found that Biscayne Bay is “moderately healthy,” despite a significant decline in water quality and habitat health in recent decades.

PFAS, which leak from failing septic systems and wash off airport runways, can end up in streams that ultimately discharge into ocean ecosystems where marine animals live.

A brand new set of protections for Miami-Dade’s storm-prone coast is once again on the table after the county agreed to move forward with a new coastal protection study.

A new study found urban coral growing near busy Port Miami are more resilient to stressors like higher temperature and salinity and could provide clues for helping offshore coral.

Miami-Dade County's latest plan to protect against stronger storms and rising sea levels involves closing off most of Biscayne Bay from the Atlantic Ocean with natural and man-made barriers.

Miami-Dade County's contentious recent urban boundary move will block an old slough — a shallow channel that cut through the rock ridge in South Dade to deliver 'lifeblood' freshwater from the Everglades to Biscayne Bay and seen as key to wetlands restoration, environmentalists and planners say.

We look at WLRN Reporter Wilkine Brutus’ conversation with Florida's Secretary of State, Cord Byrd. Plus, there's tons of trash piling up in Biscayne Bay, other waterways and mangrove regions. Also, we meet one of the young people in the Miami 4 Social Change Youth Film Festival.

A new study released by the Florida International University Institute of Environment shows that harmful chemicals have been found in Biscayne Bay oysters.

The fishing pier on the Old Rickenbacker Causeway is one of the last remaining remnants of Old Miami. How long does it have left?

An administrative law judge ruled the state should renew a permit for a massive canal system at the Florida Power & Light plant in Miami-Dade County, rejecting arguments about threats to Monroe County’s water supply and Biscayne Bay.