“America has a ‘resilience deficit’; Will FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 help or hurt?
By: Albert J. Slap, President, Coastal Risk Consulting The U.S. sustained 298 weather and climate disasters since 1980, where overall...
For this Floridian, there is no safe place to hide from the warming climate
By Pam McVety, climate activist This is a message to Ron DeSantis, Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, Neal Dunn and all...
IPCC: Dangerous climate change is here
By John Morales (This column summarizing the IPCC 6th Assessment Working Group I report is adapted from Climate Central, an...
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...
The lesson from the massive fish kill in Biscayne Bay: Everything we do on land ends up in the bay
By Irela Bagué, Chief Bay Officer, Miami-Dade County As we near the anniversary of last year's unprecedented fish kill, I...
Now is the time develop a Lake Okeechobee plan that will protect our environment, economy and health
By Eve Samples, Friends of the Everglades For too many decades, Florida’s water priorities have been misguided. We’ve kept Lake...
Single-use plastics are causing more and more damage and we can’t recycle our way out of the problem
By Linda Thompson Gonzalez If you think the plastic litter on our beaches is "only" killing marine life, think again....
We need to reduce the methane rising out of our Florida landfills
By Marcos Vilar, Alianza for Progress For most people, where garbage goes is an “out of sight, out of mind” issue....
Owner of coastal property dismayed about property insurance rates and what the rising seas will do to his property values
By Ed Ignatoff, Citizens’ Climate Lobby I manage my family’s commercial property in Palm Beach, which is home to seven...
Finding hope in rural Florida: What I learned from conversations about climate change
By Lacey Lingelbach, Florida Climate Institute Over the past few months, I have been talking with groups of people in...