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Posted Wed Aug 5 2009: from Washington Post: Florida Bay's ecology on the brink of collapse http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1249495296 Experts fear a collapse of the entire ecosystem, threatening not only some of the nation's most popular tourism destinations - Everglades National Park and the Florida Keys - but a commercial and recreational fishery worth millions of dollars. Florida Bay is a sprawling estuary at the state's southern tip, covering nearly three times the area of New York City... to the north of the bay, man's unforgiving push to develop South Florida has left the land dissected with roads, dikes and miles of flood control canals to make way for homes and farms, choking off the freshwater flow and slowly killing the bay. [Read more stories about: anthropogenic change, capitalist greed, climate impacts] New!: Your Quips: Nancy says: "A new kind of "ecotourism" -- ApocaTours!" Got a PaniQuip? Your Quip (limit 140 characters, no links, just wit): First name: The text shown in the Web image to the right: We reserve the right to reuse, remove, or refuse any entry.

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