PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. – Tens of thousands of acres of seagrass that is critical to the health of the Indian River Lagoon have disappeared, according to a report in the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

The situation is threatening a number of species, including manatees, who depend on seagrass for food. Since 2009, 58% of the seagrass in the lagoon system has disappeared, choked off from sunlight as a result of an over-saturation of nutrients in the water, according to the St.

Johns River Water Management District. The nutrients are a result of fertilizer, septic tank and road runoff into the lagoon.

Seagrass is food for hundreds of thousands of animals, and home to even more. The loss of seagrass has been especially hard on the manatees that

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Homicide trial ordered in disappearance of young Amish woman from Lancaster County

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Seasonal pay parking coming to two popular Metro Vancouver parks

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Florida reports 4,100 new cases of COVID-19 as mass vaccination efforts continue

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Seminole County Emergency Manager talks vaccine distribution

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