Reasons to be optimistic on Florida’s Earth Day 2023
By John Burr There is much to do in Florida and around the world to fight climate change. And there...
Faster sea-level rise speeds up timeline to act on climate change
A quickly warming Gulf of Mexico is driving a faster than expected rise in sea levels along the Gulf of...
Florida needs to pay special attention to IPCC report on climate change
Florida is vulnerable to extreme heat, wildfires and flooding from intense storms and sea level rise
Jacksonville utility should turn to cleaner energy sources
By John Burr Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA) leaders will begin discussions in late March to decide how the utility will,...
Florida women learned sobering lessons at the climate conference in Glasgow
By John Burr, Resilience Jax We checked back with two Florida women who attended the recent United Nations’ COP26 conference...
Florida women are at the Glasgow climate summit and they have ambitious goals
By John Burr, Resilience Jax The Invading Sea contacted three women from Florida who are attending the United Nation’s COP26...
Floridians need to demand that their political leaders act now to lessen the damage we’re going to suffer from the warming climate
By John Burr, Resilient Jax Let’s face facts: We’ve blown it. The earth’s climate is heating rapidly, sea levels are...
Protecting Miami from storm surge and sea-level rise is more than a question of walls and pumps
By John Burr, Resilient Jax You’ve probably heard about the plans to build a six-mile, $6 billion wall across Biscayne...
Architects in Jacksonville are designing buildings to withstand far worse flooding from rising seas than government officials foresee
By John Burr, Resilient Jax Now it is set in concrete: Downtown Jacksonville faces a dire flooding threat from sea-level...
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...
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