WUSF, in collaboration with the Florida Climate Reporting Network, is bringing you stories on how climate change is affecting you.
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David Goldman/AP"The idea behind using sporopollenin is that now you create a permanent storage for that carbon-- that carbon is not going back to the atmosphere," said Matias Kirst with UF. -
Patrick Farrell for WLRN NewsPerhaps the biggest obstacle to the massive Everglades restoration project dissected in the WLRN podcast Bright Lit Place is the water polluted by phosphorous and other nutrients that run off from sugar cane farms.
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Lakeland city commissioners are concerned about building on green space and whether this solar project would be a catalyst for growth or a deterrent. -
Fifty-two endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles suffering from “cold stun” are rehabbing at four facilities in Florida after a flight on a private jet from the New England Aquarium in Massachusetts.
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Lee County leaders are planning to do away with language that currently restrict heights of homes on Captiva Island to two-stories. Islanders fear the charm will be lost and they will be in harm's way as more people pack onto the island.
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Wildlife officials say a two-year experimental feeding program for starving Florida manatees will not immediately resume this winter as conditions have improved for the threatened marine mammals and the seagrass on which they depend.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission plans to consider proposed changes to the rules governing wildlife rehabilitation. Some rehabbers say it may force them to call it quits.
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Some corals were left behind during an evacuation of many corals off Florida despite water temperatures that rose far above 87 degrees.
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Palm Beach County ranked 4th in the nation for fine particulate pollutants, Broward and Miami-Dade counties were in the top 15, and Hillsborough was 25th.
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Changes in weather are forcing birds to either adapt or change their migration patterns if they want to reach their final destinations.
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New research finds that private wells near more than 82% of select military sites were contaminated with PFAS chemicals. The study listed six in Florida below the threshold the Pentagon uses to trigger remediation.
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Residents of Sanibel, and north Cape Coral, are being reminded about the drought unfolding in coastal Southwest Florida and to stick to the water restrictions.
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Three months after Idalia, many here are more preoccupied with recovery than COP28.
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Two eggs are now in the nest of American bald eagles M15 and F23 in North Fort Myers.
