New York court case is a potent example of what a clean water amendment could accomplish in Florida
By Joseph Bonasia, Florida Rights of Nature Network Here’s what Floridians need to know about the first lawsuit involving New ...
Tag: Biscayne Bay
Reject questionable South Dade development, commissioners. Everglades must come first
By the Miami Herald Editorial Board It would be easy for Miami-Dade County commissioners to dismiss environmentalists who are fighting ...
Miami should consider requiring underground parking garages to serve as temporary reservoirs during flooding
By Morgan Dunn, Sustainability Professional, Arizona State University Miami-Dade County’s Summary of the Impacts of Sea Level Rise says that sea-level rise ...
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 ...
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 ...