Climate Change

Global temperatures soared past previous records in 2023, according to new data from the European Union. Nations must slash fossil fuel emissions to avoid even higher temperatures, scientists warn.

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

Flood risk and climate change are pushing millions of people to move from their homes, according to a new study by the risk analysis firm First Street Foundation. It's stifling growth in prospering cities and accelerating declines in struggling areas. Local moves are driving the changes.

There are hundreds of U.S. neighborhoods where the population is declining due to flood risk, a new study suggests. Climate change drives flooding from heavy rain and sea level rise.

In Monroe, the climate threat is already considered so serious that political leaders are now pushing a bold plan built around a typically unpopular option. They want to raise taxes — in this case, sales taxes.

Changes in weather are forcing birds to either adapt or change their migration patterns if they want to reach their final destinations.

Three months after Idalia, many here are more preoccupied with recovery than COP28.

A new app called Too Good To Go gives customers a chance to buy bags of perfectly edible food at cut-rate prices as an innovative way to reduce food waste.

The USF St. Petersburg study showed that 73% of the 1,667 residents polled mistakenly believe that they have flood insurance, while less than 5% actually have coverage.

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

South Florida’s drainage canals are overwhelmed by king tides, and sea rise could only worsen the issue.

Florida International University’s Martina Potlach, whose studies marry landscape design and ecology, gave ideas on how to reconceptualize how shorelines work if humans are to live in coastal South Florida as storms intensify and the sea moves in.