The best defense against hurricane damage is the coastal wetlands that nature has provided us
By Paul Sutton, University of Denver While climate change did not create damaging weather and wildfires, it has demonstrably made ...
Tag: Biscayne Bay
Elizabeth Fata Carpenter: Citizens are seeing the damage from the warming climate and want leaders to address the threats
An interview with Elizabeth Fata Carpenter, Everglades Law Center As part of its series “The Business of Climate Change,” which ...
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 ...
Florida needs to review environmental restrictions so that conservationists and developers can work together to save Biscayne Bay
By Pablo A. Hereter, University of Florida Law School Florida’s environmental laws are stuck in the 1970s with no flexibility ...
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 ...
Manatees are starving to death, but Florida doesn’t seem to love them enough to save them
Miami Herald Editorial Board We love manatees in Florida. We put them on license plates. We name our school mascots ...
Greater Miami mayors applaud U.S. leadership on addressing the climate crisis
By Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, City of Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber, and City of Miami Mayor Francis ...
The new federal commitment to preserve 30% of our land and water resources is needed to serve the growing population
By Audrey Peterman, Earthwise Productions, Inc. As someone who has been privileged to visit more than 180 places in America’s ...
A 10-foot wall along beautiful Biscayne Bay is the wrong way to address storm surge
By Mike Abrams and Jose Felix Diaz, Ballard Partners Something wicked is coming to Miami. That is the only way ...
Voters approve charter amendment and make Florida the epicenter of Rights of Nature in the U.S.
By Joseph Bonasia, Florida Rights of Nature Network On Election Day, a breathtaking 89% of Orange County voters approved the ...
See what happens to your neighborhood as the sea level rises with this interactive map from Climate Central.