Bill Kearney - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Attendees speak together between sessions at the Aspen Ideas: Climate conference, Wednesday, March 8, 2023, in Miami Beach, Fla. The conference is co-hosted by the Aspen Institute and the City of Miami Beach.

Can Florida survive climate change? Here’s what the Aspen Ideas: Climate conference had to say

The Sunshine State, with its low elevation and 825 miles of shoreline, make it one of the planet’s most vulnerable locations for both sea-level rise and intensified weather events.

A Burmese python sits in the grass at Everglades Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 2019. A yearly competition will begin in August for people to hunt and kill the invasive species.

Environment

A python invasion has exploded out of the Everglades

Bill Kearney - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

An ambitious new paper produced by the U.S. Geological Survey found that the python population has exploded in only 20 years from a few snakes at the southern tip of Everglades National Park to an invasion that envelops the southern third of Florida.

Environment

Researchers turn to possums with GPS collars to track invasive pythons

Bill Kearney - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Wildlife officials are using a new method to help control the explosive population growth of the invasive snake by tracking down their prey.

Environment

An invasive butterfly that damages citrus trees has reached Florida

Bill Kearney - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

It is speculated that the species moved into Key West as a result of Hurricane Ian.