Florida And Climate Change

FEMA says its new rates better reflect the risk from more intense and frequent rain and floods. The increase could make housing unaffordable for some in the most flood-prone areas.

The green bond will help Tampa tackle the problems that arise from inland flooding.

Burnett Oil Co. has proposed drilling at two sites in the Everglades of Big Cypress National Preserve, an important Florida panther habitat that sprawls across both sides of Alligator Alley. Environmentalists hope the Biden administration takes a more skeptical view.

A nonprofit advocacy group says Gov. Ron DeSantis has made the environment a priority, but enforcement is lower than what it was a decade ago.

An unprecedented 937 manatees have died in Florida in 2021, representing 10% of the animal’s population in the state.

Risk Rating 2.0 is the first change to the way the National Flood Insurance Program calculates premiums since the 1970s and represents the biggest shift since the program was founded in the 1960s.

A group of University of Miami graduate students created the blog "Seasoned Chaos" last year to help make sense of the complicated physics behind climate change.

The study projects that by midcentury, without action on climate change, Florida's workers on average could potentially lose 33 work days per year due to extreme heat compared to five now.

Among the findings: Scientists are confident in saying that there will be more frequent storms in the highest intensity categories of 4 and 5.

From warm water to rainfall, there are many ways a changing climate could alter Florida’s blooms.

No matter what, if any, role rising seas played in the collapse, there is no escaping the rising risks to Surfside and other coastal communities up and down the Florida coast.

The story behind Florida’s new laws that strip cities of their ability to fight climate change.