Florida And Climate Change

The stretch of coastline between Apalachicola and Cedar Key flares neon red on flood risk maps but goes dark on NOAA tide gauge maps. The 150-mile expanse between Apalachicola and Cedar Key has no instruments. Tampa Bay, for comparison, has four.

Scientists say it’s important to research geoengineering – large-scale attempts to cool the planet to fight climate change – in case we ever need it. But the technologies are risky. Florida will soon outlaw testing them in state airspace.

They say the warmer temperatures will produce more extreme weather events such as hurricanes, droughts and fires.

Against the odds of a warming ocean, the next generation of corals heads out to sea.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has stopped tracking the costs of damage from weather disasters, a move that follows the Trump Administration's efforts to remove references to climate change from federal documents and resources.

Scientists at the University of South Florida Optical Oceanography Lab are predicting what could be the state's worst seaweed season.

In a statewide survey conducted by Mainstreet Research for MediaLab@FAU, Florida voters gave their input topics as diverse as gun control, abortion and DOGE. One hot issue seems to cross partisan lines: climate change.

The judge said the Florida Department of Environmental Protection needs to seek what is known as an “incidental take permit” from federal wildlife officials to help minimize the effects of discharges on manatees.

A new University of Miami study looked at 40 years worth of data from across the Atlantic and found cooler waters in deep currents off the U.S. coast could be warming.

The Trump administration’s tariffs will have profound impacts on homebuilding costs, which could affect the insurance market and consumers in the long term.

The Cape Sable seaside sparrow is threatened by some of the most complex water management infrastructure on Earth in the Everglades, and now sea level rise.

The administration announced it would ax rules curbing pollution from power plants, cars and more.