Save it or lose it: As seagrass vanishes, a mass death of marine life and a brown-water future

Editor’s note: This story is the second installment of a two-part series on the catastrophic seagrass die-offs plaguing nearly all of Florida’s coastal waters. The die-offs persist, raising the question — can 21st century Florida and seagrass coexist? In the timescale of ecosystems, the collapse of Florida’s seagrass has been sudden, severe and nearly simultaneous. A tragic consequence ...

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