Biscayne Bay

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.

The bill would create seagrass mitigation banks, allowing property owner to buy credits in privately managed seagrass meadows to offset the destruction caused by construction.

In their first meeting Monday, members of the Biscayne Bay Watershed Management Advisory Board asked for more details about state money.

So far, 250 dead fish have been confirmed in the Tuttle Basin at the bay's north end, where poor circulation means water gets flushed less often.