climate change

Local governments would be severely restricted from implementing measures to reduce the effects of climate change under a bill approved Thursday by a Florida House committee. The measure (HB 1217) comes nearly two years Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation declaring that the state would no longer be required to consider climate change when crafting energy policy.

A team of researchers say that human-caused climate change had an important impact on the recent ferocious wildfires that engulfed parts of Chile and Argentina's Patagonia region, making the extremely high-risk conditions that led to widespread burning up to three times more likely than in a world without global warming.

In lush South Florida, trees and bushes grow all year round. And that means yard waste and dead trees never stop piling up. But leaving them in a landfill is a climate-warming issue.

Here’s how Florida lawmakers want to change the state’s environmental laws this year.

At least a dozen federal datasets have been axed or altered under the Trump administration. They track issues such as climate change, food security and health outcomes.

The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree. The state is the lightning capital of the United States as measured in deaths by lightning, with four fatalities in 2025.

You may know sargassum as the stinky algae that periodically washes ashore, but it's been an important breeding habitat for many marine species in the Atlantic.

Fifteen years after Deepwater Horizon, some scientists and environmentalists worry the industry's new technology could bring risks to Florida's coast.

When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil returned to power, he had an ambitious goal: restoring his country’s image as a champion of climate action. Yet three years after returning to office, Lula heads into the world’s most important climate talks with a more checkered track record.

Fifteen elementary schools in Miami-Dade County are composting their rotting jack-o-lanterns.

This year’s United Nations climate summit got underway in Belém, Brazil, on Thursday. The meeting, known as COP30, comes during another year of record heat and extreme weather around the globe.

The National Weather Service has issued a coastal flood statement — the lowest alert level — for Florida’s east coast.