WUSF, in collaboration with the Florida Climate Reporting Network, is bringing you stories on how climate change is affecting you.
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The concerns originate in a state-commissioned environmental assessment on the Everglades detention site, which has detained thousands of migrants since opening last summer.
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The ongoing drought isn't getting any better. Tampa Bay Water is issuing what it calls a "Stage 3 Extreme Regional Supply Shortage."
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In Florida, Robin Greenfield says he's been living off preserved car-killed deer, salt from the ocean and citrus picked from public parks.
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Plastics are ever-present in our society. And they don't decompose, but become tiny particles called microplastics. And those have been found everywhere. Now, they're being found in some unexpected places.
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The statistical model considers angler behavior as a factor in predicting the probability of exceeding fishing quotas.
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Proposed Endangered Species Act rollbacks and military expansions are leaving the Pacific’s most diverse coral reefs legally defenseless.
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Editor's Note: State Route 29 will be closed Saturday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. for firefighting activity. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, the National Fire in the Big Cypress National Preserve has 154 firefighters working the blaze, 14 fire engines, four helicopters, three fixed-wing aircraft, and three water tankers. The cost of fighting the fire is more than $1.2 million. The fire could also result in a "super fog" — a thick, vision-hampering shroud that could affect motorists near the fire area.
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The measure has drawn backlash from local governments and advocacy groups, including 1000 Friends of Florida, which argue the law undermines home rule and prevents communities from strengthening wetlands protections among other issues.
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Wildlife officials are investigating what happened to 101 vultures who were found dead and 17 sick at Blue Spring State Park.
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Florida emergency officials say the fire does not threaten the state-run immigration detention facility called "Alligator Alcatraz."
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A pair of wildfires broke out late Sunday near Alligator Alley in the Florida Everglades. One of the fires grew from five to 10,000 acres Monday afternoon just north of Alligator Alley in the Big Cypress National Preserve near Ochopee as firefighters attacked the blaze on the ground and from the air.
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A new study underscores growing unease about pollution from mostly unregulated commercial space activities.
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The Everglades seldom benefit from invasive species. But now, as non-native apple snails disappear, the endangered Everglades bird, the snail kite, is paying the price.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission examination of recent large-scale manatee deaths in Lee County said a shutdown of a power plant near the canal the animals use for warmth could be a mitigating factor in the deaths.