To avoid deaths from extreme heat, we need to quickly switch to clean power
David Hastings, climate scientist When I first moved to Florida from Seattle, I would escape to the cool Pacific Northwest...
Florida is the leader in the Southeast for solar, but the state’s utilities need to do more to help the U.S. achieve 100% clean energy
By Bryan Jacob, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy It’s not hard to understand why solar energy has become an increasingly...
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...
The climate crisis is a crime that should be prosecuted
By Mark Hertsgaard, Covering Climate Now This story is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of...
Surfside building collapse is a shocking wake-up call for coastal condo homeowner associations
By Albert J. Slap, President, RiskFootprint™ In the middle of the night on June 24, a 40-year-old, 12-story condominium in...
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...
Citizens’ Climate Lobby is using the power of democracy to tackle the challenges of the climate crisis
By Sam Daley-Harris, of the anti-poverty lobby RESULTS The dire warnings of democracy’s demise are everywhere. Story after story taunts...
DeSantis should appoint a powerful statewide resilience officer who will tackle Florida’s growing climate challenges
By Jon Paul “J.P.” Brooker, Florida Conservation for Ocean Conservancy As Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) Secretary Noah Valenstein...
Legislators aren’t doing enough to protect Florida from the damage caused by the warming climate
Christian Wagley, of Healthy Gulf If you had a leak in your roof that got larger and dumped gallons of...
Why can’t we call the growing threats from the warming climate ‘an emergency’?
By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope, Covering Climate Now TV newsman Bill Moyers tells the story of how Edward R....