Local government control over pollution protects our health and our children’s future
By Dr. Shahnaz Fatteh, Asthma, Allergy Care Center of Florida There is legislation on a fast track in Tallahassee that ...
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Florida’s lawmakers are beginning to recognize the threat the state faces from the warming climate
By Lauren Swan, AECOM Engineering As most of the nation emerges from a harsh winter, it is worth contemplating what ...
2020 showed Florida that sustainability and resilience are the only way forward
By Philip Stoddard, Florida International University This year made Floridians feel climate change in our daily lives as we slogged ...
Producing plastic products generates an enormous amount of greenhouse gas emissions
By Catherine Uden, Oceana An estimated 17.6 billion pounds of plastic leak into the marine environment from land-based sources every year. This is ...
When a hurricane is bearing down on Florida, minimize COVID-19 infections with more strategic evacuations
To hear what climate scientists and epidemiologists learned about how to evacuate during a pandemic, join an expert panel discussion ...
It’s Time to Stop Ignoring the Truth: Climate Change is Making Hurricanes Worse
By Jennifer Scherff, My Flood Risk June 1 marked the official start of hurricane season, yet we have already had ...
A small victory: Florida used “climate change” in a grant application when three other states avoided the words
Here’s good news: The State of Florida is no longer in the climate-change denier club. Southern coastal states are lining ...
See what happens to your neighborhood as the sea level rises with this interactive map from Climate Central.