Don't Trash Our Treasure

After yet another massive fish kill in Biscayne Bay caused by widespread pollution, researchers are working to assess the damage.

Piero Gardinali, who is obsessed with water quality, has been watching Biscayne Bay for decades and he was alarmed on Friday while gathering data about a new fish kill.

Experts reported Thursday in Miami-Dade County that the fish kill was in Biscayne Bay’s northern basin — mostly in the discharge areas of canal C-8 off Miami Shores and C-7 off Little River.

Here is a sobering fact: Right now the United States throws away up to 11.3 million tons of textile waste each year. That’s about 2,100 pieces of clothing every second of the day. Is it any wonder that our addiction to fast fashion is one of the biggest contributors to pollution on the planet?

More than 1,000 fish died in the northern Biscayne Bay basin on Wednesday in Miami-Dade County.

Pollution is killing our ocean, which is filled with more than 150 million tons of plastic.

It is the weekend after Hurricane Ian ravaged the southern Gulf Coast and while South Florida was spared from the storm's devastation, scientists with Florida International University's Institute of Environment are making sure water management didn't unleash a different type of catastrophe.

Last Saturday, hundreds of volunteers sweated it out on the South Florida sand to clean up our beautiful beaches.

If this summer's sweltering heat or the unusually quiet peak of hurricane season hasn't convinced you, South Florida is already experiencing the effects of climate change.

More and more Floridians are buying boats and enjoying our unlimited access to the ocean, but not everyone is a responsible boat owner.

At the very beginning of the pandemic, a new experiment launched in South Florida brought joy and peace to millions of people around the world that were locked down in their homes.

This week, headlines screamed that extreme heat will be a fact of life for over 100 million Americans in the next 30 years.

Hollywood resident Manon Weise is on a mission, looking to inspire and educate the masses creating works of art out of trash to show us all what we’re doing to our planet.

Concerns are growing after Miami city commissioners approved a plan to move forward with a pilot program that will create a homeless encampment on Virginia Key, next to land that has been deemed as critically endangered.

Polluters be warned, Miami-Dade County is not playing around.

Miami is just one of several South Florida cities stepping up to try and fight the growing litter program with a new technology.

Nearly a dozen bull sharks were killed last weekend in a contest to see who could catch the biggest.

There’s a storm of controversy brewing over Palm Beach County this weekend.

Dramatic images have been going viral on social media showing our planet -- specifically our ocean -- in the grips of a serious plastic pollution crisis.

At a marina in Copenhagen, there's a world famous statue of a little mermaid, and here in South Florida, we have a real life one, and she's on a quest to save our ocean.

Every year more than 14 million tons of plastic ends up in the ocean, and with plastic production expected to quadruple in the next 30 years, scientist predict there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish by weight.

There is currently a special, fully immersive entertainment experience open right now on South Beach that will takes people down to the bottom of the sea to inspire us all to care more and do more to protect our planet ocean.

Part of the Don't Trash Our Treasure franchise has included discussing the benefits of restoring mangroves to South Florida's shorelines, especially when it comes to protecting us from storm surge and sea level rise.

Protecting Biscayne Bay isn't just about what goes into the water. It's also about monitoring what we do with the land surrounding this fragile eco-system.

This month proved to be deadly for two endangered sperm whales that beached themselves in the water of the Florida Keys last week.

Fertilizers are used to keep lawns green and promote healthy garden growth, but those same fertilizers are deadly to our bays and waterways because they feed algae and kill sea grass.

The global nonprofit Aspen Institute is hosting their first ever Ideas conference on climate for four days beginning Monday.

Biscayne Bay is at a dangerous tipping point between a healthy seagrass ecosystem, which we all now enjoy, to one dominated by algae that will no longer support life as we know it.

Dozens of volunteers picked up 525 pounds of trash on Friday off Biscayne Bay shore. It was their way of celebrating Earth Day, a worldwide annual event that has been promoting environmental protection since 1970.

This Earth Day marks one year since Local 10 News launched its “Don’t Trash Our Treasure” series, and throughout this journey, we’ve met some pretty remarkable South Floridians doing their part to protect our precious backyard.

Ask any ocean fisherman, many of them see sharks as public enemy number one.

We have long been reporting on the critical pollution problem infecting all South Florida waterways, leading to the rapidly declining health of Biscayne Bay.

As the rainy season and summer months approach, there is real concern of another fish kill in Biscayne Bay if we don’t get a handle on all the pollution that still flows into the watershed.

Here's how you can attend Ultra Musical Festival while reducing your carbon footprint.

The city of Miami Beach is breaking up with Coca-Cola as the city’s exclusive water and soft drink sponsor after Coke wouldn’t reduce the plastic packaging for its products.

Following South Beach being trashed by students from Miami-Dade public schools, Miami Beach city leaders are taking note and taking action as spring breakers descend upon our beaches in the coming weeks.