Florida And Climate Change

The city of Orlando is looking to add a titanium dioxide solution to some roads to reduce the heat island affect and capture some air pollutants.

A study shows immediate reductions in methane emissions are the best, swiftest chance the planet has at slowing climate change.

St. Petersburg faces the highest long-term projection of flooding days of any of the 15 cities in Florida cited by the report.

A group gathered at a plot for a future community garden in West Tampa on Saturday to honor Juneteenth with an event dubbed the "Love Feast."

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.

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.

City officials will have to take a look at the social, legal and economic impacts of some of their recommendations.

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.

Salt marshes are among the most productive ecosystems in the world. They create habitat for wildlife, protect shorelines from erosion, reduce flooding, and protect water quality by filtering runoff.