Alex Harris

Miami-Dade residents who choose to fix up their homes with the Property Assessed Clean Energy program, or PACE, just got new protections to make it a little safer.

A brand new set of protections for Miami-Dade’s storm-prone coast is once again on the table after the county agreed to move forward with a new coastal protection study.

Many experts believe heat-related illnesses and deaths are almost certainly under-counted both in Florida and nationwide. One major reason is the way the medical industry keeps records.

University of Miami scientists and volunteers are planting coral fragments off of Key Biscayne to research the genetic differences that might make them more heat tolerant, as coral reefs are threatened by high ocean temperatures.

So far, Miami has broken more than a dozen daily peak temperature records, the ocean is hotter, earlier than it’s ever been, and the combination of heat and humidity has reached new heights more than 20 times in the last 35 days.

The veto came days after former President Donald Trump slammed Gov. Ron DeSantis and EVs.

So far, 2023 has already been Miami’s hottest year on record, with the city breaking15 daily peak temperature records — seven since June 1 alone.

The donation — $5 million to Miami Waterkeeper and $3 million to the Everglades Foundation over six years — is meant to increase awareness of the risks of climate change in Miami.

The Atlantic Ocean is hot right now. Hotter than it’s supposed to be for this time of year, and hot enough to worry scientists — particularly ones who monitor hurricanes.

This Atlantic Hurricane season, forecasting tech takes another leap forward with the introduction of a new, more accurate hurricane model developed by NOAA.

Efforts to establish protections for outdoor workers in Florida against the impacts of extreme heat have failed at the federal, state and local levels.

A new study from researchers with the University of Miami, Florida International University and others found that many parts of Miami-Dade County could get an average of six degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the official reading.