Manatees are starving to death, but Florida doesn’t seem to love them enough to save them
Miami Herald Editorial Board We love manatees in Florida. We put them on license plates. We name our school mascots...
Solutions to the climate crisis are better and cheaper than ever
David Hastings, climate scientist Are we doomed? Alarming reports continue of more destructive hurricanes, extreme heat events and rising sea levels. Florida is ground zero...
Brian Auld: Business leaders want to protect Florida from the inevitable damage the state faces from the changing climate
An interview with Brian Auld, president of the Tampa Bay Rays and secretary and treasurer of Tampa Bay Partnership As...
The courts must protect young people from the effects of the warming climate
By Bernard Perlmutter, Abigail Fleming and Kiyra Ellis, the University of Miami School of Law Raging seas, melting glaciers, smoldering...
Miami-Dade County has its first ‘chief heat officer’; How cool is that?
The Miami Herald Editorial Board Miami-Dade County now has an official “chief heat officer.” That may sound like a gimmick — we...
Jeffrey Huber: South Florida is the ‘canary in the coal mine’ warning others that the warming climate presents serious challenges
An interview with Jeffrey Huber, Brooks + Scarpa and Florida Atlantic University School of Architecture As part of its series...
Lawmakers approve legislation designed to address Florida’s growing threats from flooding and rising seas
By Terry Gibson, North Swell Media & Consulting In the final weeks of the 2021 legislative session, the Florida Legislature...
Florida should embrace renewable energy, not resist it
By Emily Derrenbacker, a Stetson University student When it comes to energy production, Florida hasn’t exactly lived up to its...
Alec Bogdanoff: Floridians need to realize that grappling with the warming climate ‘is going to take sustained effort for decades’
An interview with Alec Bogdanoff, principal scientist and co-founder of Brizaga. As part of its series “The Business of Climate...
Report warns that Jacksonville faces an expensive ‘fight that will be waged over decades to protect the city from the changing climate’
By John Burr, Resilient Jax The blunt warning from a Republican Jacksonville city councilmember, in a city known as a...
Jason Bird: Florida has the technology, knowledge and skills to cope with the threats from the warming climate
An interview with Jason Bird, Florida Resilience Lead at Jacobs Engineering Group As part of its series “The Business of...
Our leaders and institutions responded well to the COVID threat; they now need to address the warming climate the same way
By Mary Anna Mancuso, RepublicEn.org For the past year, many Americans came together to lockdown in order to flatten the...
Some corporations are staining Earth Day with ‘greenwashed’ accounts of their efforts to combat the climate crisis
By John Morales, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists https://thebulletin.org/2021/04/corporate-greenwash-stains-earth-day/ She looks to be about 12 or 13 as she smiles...
The Legislature is starting to take the threats from the warming climate more seriously
The Legislature took a modest but important step to better protect the state from the growing threat of climate change....
As the planet warms, the Florida Legislature might chill local progress on clean energy
By Jonathan Scott Webber, Florida Conservation Voters Florida isn’t just witnessing the greatest public-health disaster in our history. We’re also...
