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Booming Population Dying Lagoon


In this Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 photo,a group of kayakers explore a canal in the Indian River Lagoon, Fla. America’s most biologically diverse waterway is seriously ill. Despite hundreds of millions of tax dollars spent to reduce pollution in Florida’s 153-mile-long Indian River Lagoon, an Associated Press analysis of water quality data from 2000-2015 found stark increases in pollutants that cause harmful algal blooms. (AP/RSS Photo/John Raoux)