With hurricanes lurking, the last thing Florida needs is drilling rigs off our coasts
By Susan Glickman, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy As Floridians watch Hurricane Isaias develop, we shake our heads about recent...
Eliminating Miami’s Office of Resilience and Sustainability is no way to fight climate change
By Ryan Sears Miami Mayor Francis Suarez recently joined a “Climate Mayors” webinar and touted the city of Miami as a global...
The confluence of red tide and blue-green algae is a dire warning that someone needs to better manage Lake Okeechobee
By Eve Samples and Howard Simon The scientists at Brain Chemistry Labs have sent the people of Florida another warning...
Churches are vital in our response to COVID-19, hurricanes and climate threats
By Yohann Kurzweil, Faithful Climate Action Fellowship Natural catastrophes are not out of the norm for South Florida. As a...
Climate change didn’t cause COVID-19, but it’s contributing to its spread and severity
By David Jenkins, Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship I am always a bit skeptical when advocacy groups tie a seemingly unrelated...
If facts don’t convince you to change your behavior, check your emotional response to climate and COVID-19 consequences
By Susan Nugent, Climate Reality Project How much must we suffer before we work together to address both COVID-19 and...
How will the pandemic affect hurricane preparations and relief?
By Sabrina Hu and Charlotte Stuart-Tilley, The CLEO Institute A global pandemic shutting down the world, protests erupting at every...
Republicans need to pay attention to voters’ growing concerns about climate change
By Carlos Curbelo and Alex Conant The coronavirus pandemic has caused a host of unpredicted side effects in addition to...
Congress needs to enact a fee on companies that pollute and give the money to America’s taxpayers
By David S. Vogel and Thais Lopez Vogel, VoLo Foundation Carbon dioxide emissions account for a substantial amount of heat-trapping...
From the climate crisis to Covid-19: can journalism focus on the stories that matter?
By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope, Covering Climate Now To hear many journalists tell it, the spring of 2020 has...