Climate Change

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.

The concerns originate in a state-commissioned environmental assessment on the Everglades detention site, which has detained thousands of migrants since opening last summer.

Proposed Endangered Species Act rollbacks and military expansions are leaving the Pacific’s most diverse coral reefs legally defenseless.

Just last week, the Trump administration revoked a 2009 endangerment finding, which said heat-trapping gases, like methane and carbon dioxide, threaten public health.

The measure's sponsor says "net-zero" policies drive up costs, while one city commissioner says destructive weather intensified by climate change is actually doing so.