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....
Everglades restoration enhances water quality and therefore benefits the state’s vital real estate industry
By Stephen Davis, Ph.D., Chief Science Officer, The Everglades Foundation America’s Everglades provides the drinking water for nine million Floridians,...
Unless Floridians address the warming climate, we risk more storm damage, higher insurance rates and lower property values
By U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez Homeowners are the ones who incurred the hefty costs when extreme weather strikes, especially those...
Solutions to the climate crisis are better and cheaper than ever
David Hastings, climate scientist Are we doomed? Alarming reports continue of more destructive hurricanes, extreme heat events and rising sea levels. Florida is ground zero...
The courts must protect young people from the effects of the warming climate
By Bernard Perlmutter, Abigail Fleming and Kiyra Ellis, the University of Miami School of Law Raging seas, melting glaciers, smoldering...
Lawmakers approve legislation designed to address Florida’s growing threats from flooding and rising seas
By Terry Gibson, North Swell Media & Consulting In the final weeks of the 2021 legislative session, the Florida Legislature...
Florida should embrace renewable energy, not resist it
By Emily Derrenbacker, a Stetson University student When it comes to energy production, Florida hasn’t exactly lived up to its...
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...
Our leaders and institutions responded well to the COVID threat; they now need to address the warming climate the same way
By Mary Anna Mancuso, RepublicEn.org For the past year, many Americans came together to lockdown in order to flatten the...
See what happens to your neighborhood as the sea level rises with this interactive map from Climate Central.