WUSF, in collaboration with the Florida Climate Reporting Network, is bringing you stories on how climate change is affecting you.
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Joe Raedle/Getty Images/Inside Climate NewsThe river of grass is not on track to meet a new water quality standard, according to the report. The state says recent data show the pollution is nearly within limits. -
Samantha Ramlall/Suncoast SearchlightThey say many of the region’s most pressing environmental challenges — from microplastics found in dolphins and PFAS contamination to water shortages and habitat fragmentation — are unfolding in ways that are often overlooked or poorly understood.
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Washington is funneling more than $2 billion to the Army Corps of Engineers' Jacksonville office to speed up completion of a massive reservoir being built south of Lake Okeechobee by more than five years. -
A larger coalition of environmental groups joined the fight to stop a powerful White House committee from lifting environmental protections to clear the way for drilling in the Gulf. -
The Southwest Florida Water Management District sent a letter to Fort Meade officials saying they can’t use the city’s existing water infrastructure to supply the center under new rules approved in December. -
North Florida's flat, rural cattle pastures — longtime dumping grounds of South Florida's sewage sludge — will close their gates to feces-filled trucks by 2028. That's owing to a provision of Florida's Farm Bill. -
A plan to shoot part of "A Land Remembered" on location is drawing opposition. Said one environmentalist: “We cannot have a hoof running on this beach." -
A 1,733-acre wildfire was being fought in the Picayune Strand State Forest on Monday afternoon. The fire was south of Alligator Alley and prompted a warning from the Florida Highway Patrol. -
An immigration detention center in the Everglades stirred up a decades-old environmental battle. Hear from people who helped in the fight. -
The country music festival was originally taking place at the TradeWinds Resort in St. Pete Beach. This move follows environmental concerns over turtle nesting season on the beach. -
Researchers looked at 1,600 storms that made landfall since 1981 and found those that went over extra-hot water were more likely to intensify rapidly, resulting in 60% more disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damage when they hit land. -
About 775 tons of trash arrive at Alachua County's Leveda Brown Environmental Park & Transfer Station every day. Electronic waste, including discarded phones and laptops, is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. -
A new state law aimed at blocking a proposed cruise port in Manatee County may still leave the door open to large-scale development in the Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve, according to environmental advocates and legal experts. -
Along with Burmese pythons and green iguanas, there's another invasive animal that South Floridians need to keep an eye out for: Asian swamp eels.
