Upgrading our building standards for flooding from sea level rise will let us finance resilient construction with private sector green bonds
By a panel of six experts Persistent sea level rise presents protection risks to society with expected costs in the...
Death of whale near Key West highlights the dangers posed by plastics pollution and lost fishing gear
By Jon Paul “J.P.” Brooker, Ingrid Giskes and Nicholas Mallos, Ocean Conservancy In May, a 47-foot-long adult male sperm whale...
UN’s climate “Code Red” demands attention in Florida
By Rosemary O’Hara Remember Al Gore’s 2006 film, An Inconvenient Truth? Gore was the canary in the coal mine for...
Rapidly developing technology may enable us to extract carbon from the atmosphere and save the planet
By Bob Bunting, The Climate Adaptation Center CAC In the late 1970s and 1980s I was fortunate to be a...
People alone can’t prevent the dangers we face from the warming climate
By Mariana Nascimento, New York University Individuals must do their part to foster a sustainable society. After all, it is...
Sign citizen ballot petition to secure your right to clean water
By Capt. Karl R. Deigert The active Florida “Right to Clean and Healthy Waters” citizen ballot petition campaign is working to...
FPL: America deserves a better energy grid, not the current aging system
By Manny Miranda The pandemic dramatically increased America’s reliance on the energy grid. We are now working more comfortably from...
Congress should stop ignoring our climate crisis (again)
By William F. Felice In 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen testified to Congress that the era of global warming leading...
Floridians need a state constitutional amendment to assure that we all have a right to clean water
By Karl Deigert, Florida Right to Clean Water The Florida "Right to Clean and Healthy Waters" citizen ballot petition campaign...
Excessive heat occurring more often, poses existential threat to all living beings
By Thais Lopez-Vogel and Susan Cardenas This National Heat Awareness Day — May 27 — how well are we prepared...
Climate crisis: doing too little and hoping it will all just go away
By E.S. Browning If you learned you had cancer and needed chemotherapy soon, what would you do? You would probably...
The heat is on — and it’s even hotter in some parts of Jacksonville
By Mark Woods There were some mornings in May when I stepped outside, felt a surprisingly cool breeze, and thought...
Florida Senate Bill 2508 would protect water supply for all
By Ryan A. Rossi I’m a Florida native. Born and raised here, I still live in my hometown of Boca...
Challenging harvest for Florida sugar farmers this year
By Matt Hoffman Last month, the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida celebrated the close of our 60th crop. Farmers in...
Now is the time for Florida to phase out fossil fuels; here’s how to make sure everybody benefits
By Natalia Brown and Delaney Reynolds Early this year, over 200 young people sent a letter to the Florida Department...