Alex Harris - Miami Herald

The University of Florida team said the four species to watch out for next are alewife, zebra mussels, crab-eating macaques and red shrimp crayfish.

A new study suggests these neighborhoods in Miami-Dade and Broward could be abandoned as seas rise.

South Florida could get more flood protection from the federal government sooner than expected.

Florida leads the nation in strict building codes, and the decades of hard work have paid off in the increasing number of homes and buildings that survive each time a hurricane slashes the state. But a new report suggests that all those hard-won gains have been undermined by the explosion of growth along the coast.

A new study and a string of recent financial and industry reports suggest Florida's already deep property insurance problems could get even worse for Florida and other states like California and Louisiana hammered by natural disasters like wildfires, floods and hurricanes.

The veto came days after former President Donald Trump slammed DeSantis and EVs.

It's become common to see new homes in South Florida constructed on land raised by trucked-in gravel. But neighbors wonder — especially after the latest “rain bomb” to hit Fort Lauderdale — if the standards to raise new construction make flooding worse for surrounding older homes.

The answer to Florida's ailing coral reefs may lie in a probiotic, not unlike the bacteria found in yogurt.

“Are we there yet? No. We are not fully restored. But, we are trending in the right direction,” says Melodie Naja, National Park Service scientist.

The policy will force homeowners to also buy flood insurance — even if their homes aren’t in designated flood zones.