History happens now: A teen environmentalist provides a glimpse inside the UN General Assembly
Miami climate activist Will Charouhis spoke with a panel of youth on their hopes for the outcome of the assembly.
Conserving land provides climate resiliency for Florida
The actions that land trusts undertake are a powerful tool in the ongoing battle to reduce and mitigate climate impacts.
America’s farmers are feeling the heat from climate change
Imagine a Florida without oranges, Maine without blueberries or California without wine.
Summer 2023 was the hottest on record – yes, it’s climate change, but don’t call it ‘the new normal’
Unprecedented heat, downpours, drought and wildfires aren’t 'caused by climate change' – they are climate change.
There’s new hope for devastated coral. All we need is the will to restore it
NOAA determined that a PortMiami dredging project destroyed at least 278 acres of Florida’s reef and likely killed millions of...
Treat outdoor workers with respect by protecting them from extreme heat
With 23% of Florida workers classified as outdoor workers, we need to enact protections that respond to our grim climate...
Florida’s enforcement crisis: Why a constitutional right to clean water is the only way
We can’t expect human nature or the nature of politics or profit-making to change anytime soon
Misguided court decision hurts Florida and its wetlands
The EPA is now prevented from being the “gatekeeper” of development and/or pollution of land connected to our drinking water.
Florida made a boondoggle of Inflation Reduction Act funds
Gov. DeSantis’s line-item veto of two federal grants in June triggered the cancellation of federal block grants totaling $346 million.
Rising methane could be a sign that Earth’s climate is part-way through a ‘termination-level transition’
Methane is both a driver and a messenger of climate change.
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