Stretches of the debris-strewn beaches of Southwest Florida, still recovering from Hurricane Milton, are now littered with ...

Jeff Berardelli is WFLA’s Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist Over the past week, a large outbreak of Red Tide has exploded in the Gulf just offshore from Tampa Bay. It can be seen on the ...

Low concentrations of the toxin were detected this past week at New Pass Dock in Sarasota Bay, on the north end of Lido Key.

Red tide is a naturally occurring type of algae ... storm surge and rainfall flooding would have flushed extra nutrients from land into Tampa Bay and the Gulf. It seems no coincidence that blooms ...

Southwest Florida waters are stained and potentially toxic as a red tide bloom rages offshore while freshwater bacteria ...

It’s nearly two weeks after Milton, and people in the Tampa Bay area are still dealing ... Meanwhile, out in the Gulf of Mexico, a large area of red tide has blossomed, with the possibility ...

Recent samples from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, or FWC, show natural, background levels in Lee and ...

When Hurricane Milton tore through the Tampa Bay area, it brought several inches ... Could Milton's stirring in the Gulf of Mexico lead to red tide? As the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...

All of these nutrients and pollutants from both Milton and Helene have scientists now carefully eyeing a red tide bloom parked just offshore of Tampa Bay. As of Tuesday, state wildlife officials ...

The Tampa Bay Times asked scientists, oceanographers and state biologists, who agreed that conditions here look clear. Last week, state water experts detected the organism that causes red tide ...