Don't Trash Our Treasure

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.

Volunteer clean-up crews who routinely clean all of South Florida's beaches were shocked and stunned when they saw how those kids left Miami Beach on Tuesday.

The Save Our Sisters Dragon Boat squad competes in races and serves as "godmothers" to the Miami Marine Stadium basin as others threaten the beloved waterway.

Textiles account for 9% of all microplastics polluting our planet and your shopping choices can have a significant impact on the environment, our oceans and climate change.

South Florida boaters rallied at the capitol earlier today to share their opposition to a water bill that will threaten local waters.

Temporary docks and sea trials for the Miami International Boat Show are set up in a protected manatee habitat, endangering the already threatened creatures, environmentalists say.

The unprecedented human effort to feed starving Florida manatees has so far provided the lovable marine mammals with more than 25 tons of lettuce.

An experimental program is feeding Florida manatees with romaine lettuce to supplement their diets after so much of the state's seagrass has been lost.

Florida, like the rest of the planet, is in the grips of a waste crisis, and a new report just released by the state’s Department of Environmental Protection outlines just how dire the situation has become.

The county says that approximately 120,000 septic tank systems are still in use in Miami-Dade and that 9,000 are vulnerable to compromise or failure under current groundwater conditions.

New signage has cut down on dangerous boating in the Miami Marine Stadium basin, and lawmakers are looking to further crackdown on illegal activity in Florida waterways.

When it comes to celebrating or memorializing anyone with balloons, don’t let them go. They are horrible for the environment.

Miami-based Debris Free Oceans is fighting to save our reefs by cleaning up all the trash we dump on them.

BeBot, the battery- and solar-powered beach cleaning robot, is here to suck up all the junk we humans leave behind.

On Earth Day, April 22, Local 10 News launched a new initiative, "Don't Trash our Treasure" -- a weekly series of environmental reports where we focus on the challenges our natural world is facing right now and on how we all play part in restoring and protecting our most valuable resource: our home, planet Earth.

A class at The Cushman School in Miami has become inspired to write letters to Gov. Ron DeSantis and Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava pushing for measure to protect Biscayne Bay.

Coca-Cola’s $325,000 per year sponsorship deal with the city of Miami Beach is in limbo because of the plastic that Coke products usually come packaged in.

The Adopt a Dune program restores South Florida's beaches by replanting the sea oats that once upon a time grew wild and free.

Arina Zhirkova, an 18-year-old senior at NSU University School, launched Sunny Isles Beach Cleanup, gaining volunteers for her mission through social media.

Sea turtles have been living on the planet since the time of the dinosaurs around 110 million years. But sadly, six of the seven species of sea turtles are either threatened, endangered or critically endangered.

For over 100 years as South Florida’s coastline was developed, acres upon acres of mangroves were destroyed in the process.

Before leaving for Glasgow to address world leaders at the UN climate summit, Sylvia Earle joined Local 10 News to talk about this critical turning point in our history — and how all of us play a part in restoring balance to our planet.

Feared and unfairly maligned as the villains of the sea, it is the shark that is actually in charge of keeping our oceans healthy. They are the doctors of the sea, keeping fish populations healthy by eating the slow, the sick and the weak — preventing diseases from becoming ocean pandemics.

Miami voters on Tuesday rejected a proposal to extend the lease on the Rickenbacker Marina to the Melwani family for another 75 years. The decision means other companies can now bid to make improvements to the space.

Biologists were taken by surprise by a record number of leatherback turtle nests found along some South Florida beaches this year.

A controversial and consequential question is being posed to City of Miami voters on election day Tuesday on whether to extend the current lease of the Rickenbacker Marina as improvements are needed to modernize it.

A South Florida man started an Instagram trend by creating artistic fish out of plastic discarded on the beach. It's become a fun hobby for people who are doing their part to save our oceans.

Seafood lovers may find oysters a delicacy, but did you know they also play a vital role in protecting our coastlines from hurricane storm surge and clean pollution from our waterways?

Manatees are starving to death because algae blooms and contaminants are killing the seagrass the beloved sea mammals eat.

Biscayne Bay is crucial to South Florida’s environment and economy, and the fight to protect it is going strong.

Dr. Angela Witmer and oceanographers from Palm Beach Atlantic University are doing crucial work, tracking how marine debris and litter travel through the ocean once it enters the sea.

Miami is test-driving an innovation involving cameras in dumpsters that has helped several Fortune 500 companies save millions while reducing their carbon footprint.

Waste Management of Florida says that 60% of people want to recycle, but their mistakes make it a costly process for cities and residents.