Florida And Climate Change

Resilient Florida was created to provide funding to help communities prepare for the impacts of more frequent and severe flooding, but not all who are at risk get the help they need.

Greenville and Mount Dora show how some communities applaud Resilient Florida for its flood help and others don't know they're eligible.

Progress Village was established decades ago to provide affordable housing for Black residents near Tampa. The phosphogypsum stack, containing the toxic waste of fertilizer production, is right next door.

The state says it plans to invest the money in "a new emerging mode of transportation," building a "Florida Aerial Highway" where the flying vehicles can recharge, take off and land.

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.

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.

Researchers are moving some corals to deeper, cooler depths, while more sensitive ones go to a temperature-controlled lab. Others will have to tough out the heat.

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.

Gulf sturgeon jump for buoyancy and communication, explained retired fish biologist Ken Sulak.

Larry Wallach’s commercial exotic animal business was shuttered by New York courts and federal regulators declined his application to exhibit animals. Now he’s pitching a new sloth encounter business in Florida.

A Tampa resident shares about evacuating ahead of a storm to keep costly insulin refrigerated, and a St. Petersburg resident reflects on her displacement during Hurricane Katrina as a teen in New Orleans.

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.