Climate Change

Some Tampa Bay area residents told stories of disappearing sea life, learning about natural hurricane protection and discussing the sometimes hot-button topic of climate change with community members.

The final product of a year and a half of community engagement and feedback is a series of initiatives aimed at addressing issues Tampa residents face, from poverty to climate change.

Compared with Nashville, Jacksonville is doing relatively little to reduce its carbon footprint and does not have a climate action plan — although many believe the city is starting to move in the right direction and should look to examples like Nashville for the way forward.

Hotter oceans are putting coral reefs in peril worldwide. Scientists are warning that to save them, heat-trapping emissions must fall, and reefs will need more protection and restoration.

Scientists say humans must keep global temperatures from increasing more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. The World Meteorological Organization warns that number is looming.

Orlando’s sustainability and resilience director Chris Castro and Susan Glickman, the Florida Director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, join Intersection to talk about green cities, and using hip hop to spread the message of sustainability.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs say the state’s handling of climate-change issues had violated the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights.

New temperature averages reflect the general warming trend that we've seen both in the U.S. and globally in the past several or more decades. Large portions of the country are actually a little wetter, which is also consistent with climate change.

A University of Miami study published this month found that while other sharks flee hurricanes, tiger sharks stayed put when Hurricane Matthew pounded the Bahamas in 2016.

A new study by the nonprofit news service Climate Central presents another grim outlook for the elderly in South Florida: more nursing homes and assisted living facilities at risk from flooding than other coastal states.

As climate change causes spring to arrive earlier in North America, a new study found migratory birds making the longest journeys are arriving too late.