To ease the state’s insurance woes and improve access to beaches, Florida governments should buy damaged beachfront properties
By Robert F. Sanchez, Right to the Point On an island a few miles south of Charleston, South Carolina, you’ll ...
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Think climate change in Florida is just flooded roads? Think again. Think housing
We know sea rise is threatening South Florida neighborhoods. But a new global climate change report, written by 270 researchers ...
We Can All Actually help curb the warming climate with the Florida Carbon Sequestration Bank
What if there was a way Florida homeowners, businesses, drivers and grocery shoppers could help pay for a strategy to ...
If the scale didn’t stop at 5, would Hurricane Dorian have been a Category 6 storm?
Dorian hit the Bahamas as one of the strongest storms in Atlantic history, once again whipping up social media banter ...
As climate change hits Florida agriculture, could the future be ‘carbon farming’?
While most residents can simply turn up the AC, there is one powerful group in Florida that can’t afford to ...
Florida wants to buy Irma-flooded homes. Is it the start of retreat from sea rise?
When Hurricane Irma swept through the Keys, it took Kathy Reitzel’s home and livelihood with it. Nearly six feet of ...
The Miami bridge to Key Biscayne sparks a new worry on Wall Street: rising seas
Each year, the Fitch credit-ratings firm issues a report on debt backed by tolls collected on Miami’s Rickenbacker Causeway, the ...
FPL wanted to punish disloyal customers by withholding solar. Then that changed.
By adding 20 solar power plants and 1,490 megawatts of power over the next two years, Florida Power and Light’s ...
Florida’s leading news organizations announce partnership for covering climate change
Climate change is the story of Florida’s future. No other state has as much at risk. That’s why six of ...
For one rare bird, flight from South Florida’s changing climate sparks a surprising revival
When Craig Watson moved to South Carolina 30 years ago, the appearance of a roseate spoonbill would draw people from ...
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