Climate Change

A federal bill would ban Florida shark dive operators from feeding sharks. Its sponsors say the ban is about safety. People who know the water, including fishers, doubt it would change much.

After the 2024 hurricanes, houses are moving up.

Underresourced farmworkers can experience physical and mental symptoms while working under the Florida sun. But heat is not their only worry, according to one advocate.

Gov. Ron DeSantis characterized the clean energy goals the law bans as “radical climate policies,” although experts say the law will not necessarily upend the plans.

A 20-year record reveals an estuary tipping toward a saltier, more acidic state. These conditions threaten its hammerhead shark nursery and the aquifer that supplies Miami’s drinking water.

The Orlando plant had been scheduled for retirement in 2025. The order cited an energy emergency related to a shortage of facilities and proliferation of data centers.

Mangroves store vast amounts of climate-warming carbon. Sea level rise may push them past the brink, according to a new study.

Sea level rise alone could drive more than 23,000 climate migrants from Florida's coasts to Alachua County in the next 75 years, according to business and economy experts.

A marine biologist is helping residents of St. Pete Beach and Tampa make their shorelines more resilient using nature-based methods.

Said DeSantis: "It's like, 'We're just going to stop the madness here,' and that's what this bill does.”

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.

Some school districts can’t afford to comply with requirements for special equipment or alternate practice schedules.