Florida And Climate Change

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

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.

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.”

A study found that, while population will likely continue to grow overall in Miami-Dade and Broward County this century — dozens of neighborhoods prone to flooding now could see people move out, permanently.

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.

Goodell spoke at the University of Florida about his new book, "The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet."

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.