WUSF, in collaboration with the Florida Climate Reporting Network, is bringing you stories on how climate change is affecting you.
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Nearly 2,000 manatees died in the state in 2021 and 2022, a two-year record. Widespread water quality problems and seagrass losses left the sea cows starving.
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A Miami shoe recycling and reuse company, Sneaker Impact, aims to reduce the environmental and climate footprint of the massive athletic shoe industry.
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The project needs signatures from about 400 property owners in three communities by the end of the weekend to move forward with the project to replenish beaches.
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Florida's manatees will likely remain a threatened species. Federal environmental regulators won't recommended increasing their protections as an endangered species.
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While oyster harvesting there was halted in 2020, officials say reviving the industry would help the area's economy. It would resume in 2026.
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Protections on ship speeds in the Gulf were removed by the Trump administration in areas where the endangered Rice's whale is known to breed.
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Water from a stream that flows into Lake Maggiore is cleaner, thanks to a million-dollar restoration project.
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The troubled plant in Manatee County has caused environmental problems for Tampa Bay since the 1970s. We take a tour of the site, where workers are within months of shutting it down.
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The Charlotte County Commission has imposed a ban on all outdoor burning, including the use and discharge of fireworks and sparklers.
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Up to 20 staffers have been laid off at national parks in South Florida. At the research center at Everglades National Park, half the team working on restoration efforts is leaving, sources say.
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A vertically floating vessel and an underwater habitat could give Florida scientists greater access to oceanic research.
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Here is a list of some of the major pieces of legislation lawmakers are expected to tackle when the session begins March 4.
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In Miami-Dade, depending on the day, only five to seven of the county’s 75 EV buses are in service. In Broward, none of Broward’s fleet of 42 EVs buses managed to run routes earlier this month.
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Duke has already broken ground on the solar projects in Madison, Sumter and Hernando counties.