Record heat and more damaging hurricanes leave some Floridians feeling their governor is ignoring the perils of a warming planet.

A balloon ban bill is floating its way through the Florida capital.

Flooding, pollution, climate change and being home to several endangered species are just a few of the several threats facing the Everglades. Its future looks grim if major conservation efforts aren’t undertaken.

These are the bills that could help — or hurt — Florida’s environment.

An exact count of flood-prone homes in South Florida — and where and how often they flood — has been all but impossible to pin down.

Local government leaders from across Florida tell the Times they support their community’s fertilizer bans.

Advocates said they drove hundreds of comments to the Florida Public Service Commission requesting it do a full and balanced cost of service study, including individual letters from two Hillsborough commissioners.

Tom Van Lent is accused of stealing “trade secrets” from his former employer, the well-connected Everglades Foundation.

Potential pilot projects could explore converting sargassum into building material, types of “green” fuel and even an additive that could help reduce beach erosion.

Roger Hammer has spent decades documenting the state’s native and rare orchids before they disappear. Florida boasts the greatest diversity of orchids in the continental U.S., but today, three-fourths of its orchids are listed as endangered or threatened.

The state transportation department left $320 million on the table, saying it wouldn’t support the “continued politicization of our roadways.”

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