A dormant malaise lies in the liquid heart of Florida. Muck — an oozy, viscous blanket the consistency of black mayonnaise — smothers the majority of the 730-square-mile floor of Lake Okeechobee. What ...

A new report from a scientific research arm of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers looks at the chronic, growing problem of a kind of blue-green algae accumulating on shorelines of Lake St. Clair. The ...

Harrison Township’s state representative has introduced a bill that would allow residents to remove the disdained muck that forms every year along the shore of Lake St. Clair. Alicia St. Germaine, who ...

The Indian River Lagoon (IRL), one of Florida’s most biologically diverse estuaries, continues to face a serious environmental threat: muck. This fine-grained, organic-rich sediment looks like black ...

Excess water gushing down Rapid Creek has washed out plans to dredge sedimentary muck from the bottom of Canyon Lake in Rapid City as planned during a $4 million rebuild of the reservoir's cracked ...