FSU research team wins EPA grant to advance Southeast Florida action on climate change
The research team will work to assess potential impacts that greenhouse gas emissions measures have on disadvantaged communities.
Tag: greenhouse gas emissions
Here’s what we all can do in Florida to stem climate change
Electric vehicles and solar panels are among the ways to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.
As floods become more common in Tampa Bay, we’re looking for answers
Florida is most likely to experience an additional 5 to 6 inches of sea level rise between 2020 and 2040.
Amid rising heat and limits on climate action, how can activists remain optimistic?
As the world experiences record-breaking temperatures, Florida suffers from the refusal to take action on climate change.
Summer 2023 was Northern Hemisphere’s hottest for 2,000 years, tree rings show
The extreme warmth of 2023 was caused by greenhouse gas emissions and amplified by El Niño.
Renewable energy plan hides Jacksonville utility’s continued reliance on fossil fuels
If the plan is implemented as designed, JEA will remain fossil fuel dependent for at least the next 25 years.
Houston’s flood problems offer lessons for cities trying to adapt to a changing climate
Global warming leads to increasing precipitation and more intense downpours, and increased flood potential.
Cruise ships produce enormous amounts of waste and emissions
Cruise ships create 24% of the waste generated by ships in the ocean and just one ship can release as ...
Large retailers don’t have smokestacks, but they generate a lot of pollution − and states are starting to regulate it
Retail companies have largely escaped the kinds of environmental regulations that affect other sectors such as manufacturing.
UN plastics treaty inches closer to reality as lobbyists tout plastics’ ‘massive societal benefits’
As the world moves from using fossil fuels in power plants and vehicles, plastics have been described as the industry’s ...