Researchers warn that a crucial Florida ecosystem is being destroyed — and one key change can stop it

Yahoo News highlighted South Florida’s rapid seagrass die-off — more than half gone in some areas over the past 50 years — and the nutrient pollution driving it, a loss already tied to the mass starvation of manatees. As Miami Waterkeeper notes, leaking septic tanks and stormwater runoff are a key source of that pollution, and FIU professor James Fourqurean was blunt about the fix: “A city of our size — we should not be on septic tanks.”