Green Tide

Miami New Times, Village Voice by Rob Jordan | Mar. 7, 2007 (Special Report)
Mysterious matter threatens one of the world's most important ecosystems

Just as the sun was reaching its highest point in the sky, Lou Greenwell realized he could see again.

During a morning spent paddling across Blackwater Sound just off Key Largo, Greenwell, 70 years old, had begun to wonder if there was any end to the shadowy mass that stretched in every direction across the once-transparent waters. Then, in the shallows on the sound's far west side, little sand sharks appeared below the suddenly clear surface. ... Full Story »

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 by Dale Penn - Mar. 6, 2007

This is an important environmental story covered by a Miami's New Times, a free weekly published by Villiage Voice Media. The Florida Keys and Biscayne Bay are natural treasures, and perhaps this is just a local story or - for those of us who have seen Mr. Gore's film - this could be viewed as another "canary in the mine" story. Told from a human interest angle, the reporter provides a fair number of authoritative quotes, but in the end provides more questions than answers about the future of hundreds of miles of natural marine habitat.

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