“Like many others, this ecological disaster has clear human causes, namely decades of slathering the Florida peninsula in the chemicals cyanobacteria love most.” Bloomberg: Toxic Slime Is Ruining Florida’s Gulf Coast.

+ Quartz: Florida’s red tide crisis shows how climate change will make the world an ugly place.

+ Orlando Sentinel: “For the past eight years, we stood by as the state decimated its environmental and water-protection agencies and repealed checks on sustainable growth. Every step, we were warned: “Don’t do it! Things will go bad!”