Environment

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The Miami Herald

Your next Miami meal to go could be a mystery. It can save money and help the planet

Ashley Miznazi |Miami Herald

A new app called Too Good To Go gives customers a chance to buy bags of perfectly edible food at cut-rate prices as an innovative way to reduce food waste.
Patrick Farrell for WLRN News

Pulling the curtain behind WLRN's new podcast 'Bright Lit Place'

Carlos Frías

WLRN environmental editor Jenny Staletovich and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Patrick Farrell talk about what it was like to wade through the muck of the Everglades to check on the decades-long battle to make the River of Grass work as nature intended.

Environment

Some South Florida canals failed during no-name storm. Sea rise will make that worse

Alex Harris | Miami Herald

South Florida’s drainage canals are overwhelmed by king tides, and sea rise could only worsen the issue.
Environment

Vehicle strikes kill 4 endangered Florida panthers in 1 week, wildlife agency says

Max Chesnes - Tampa Bay Times

The deaths account for one third of the total in the state so far this year.
Environment

Designing coastal waterfronts for South Florida’s wet future

Bill Kearney

A Florida International University’s Martina Potlach, whose studies marry landscape design and ecology, gave ideas on how to reconceptualize how shorelines work if humans are to live in coastal South Florida as storms intensify and the sea moves in.
Environment

Florida’s corals rescued from one of the worst bleaching events are back to the ocean

Haohong Zhou | WUFT

When the potentially record-high heat wave swept Florida in July, thousands of corals were rescued and relocated to land-based facilities to avoid bleaching. Now as the temperature drops to normal levels, healthy corals are ready to go back to their offshore nurseries.
Environment

Manatees on the move: Boaters asked to slow down for the sea cows

Tom Bayles

November is Manatee Awareness month. It's especially poignant for Lee County, which leads Florida with more than 100 sea cow deaths so far this year.
Health

Glades communities to get 1,000 new trees in $1m environmental justice project

Wilkine Brutus

More trees in the low-income region in the western part of Palm Beach County could help fight climate change, thanks to a $1 million EPA environmental justice grant.
Environment

Horseshoe Beach is still recovering two months after Hurricane Idalia

Hugh Green | WUFT

The storm ripped through the Big Bend region as a Category 3 storm, devastating the town's fishing and boating community.
Environment

The Everglades is dying. Our new podcast looks at the struggle to save it — and the costs of failure

Rowan Moore Gerety

In 2000, the U.S. set out on one of the most ambitious environmental projects ever attempted: to wind back the clock and make the Everglades function like it once did — in 1900. The plan could have given Florida a 20-year head start on climate change, but that didn't happen. Listen to WLRN's new podcast series Bright Lit Place.
Environment

A tiny deer and rising seas: How far should people go to save an endangered species?

Nathan Rott

The Key deer is losing the only place it lives, raising uncomfortable questions for the people tasked with keeping endangered species alive.
Environment

The past 12 months have been the hottest in recorded history, a report shows

Jessica Meszaros

One in four people, or 1.9 billion, experienced a five-day heat wave, at minimum, influenced by carbon pollution.