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It’s toxic slime time on Florida’s Lake Okeechobee

Writer Dan Egan and photographer Josh Ritchie, New York Times, July 9, 2023. For thousands of years, Lake Okeechobee pumped life into Florida’s swampy interior. Summer rains swelled the shallow inland sea, creating seasonal overflows that sustained the Everglades and its alligators, panthers, spoonbills and snail kites. But a vast re-engineering over the past century

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