climate change

Over the past four days the highest rainfall totaled about 13 to 15 inches between Weston and Sunrise, George Rizzuto, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Miami, said Wednesday.

Florida appears to have backed off its plans to spend nearly $200 million in federal funds meant for electric car chargers on flying cars instead, according to documents obtained by the Miami Herald.

Florida has sued a company that issues climate change assessments of property risks including flooding that the state alleges are deceptive, deviate from the federal flood insurance assessments, and are depressing home sales.

The proposed tax cut referendum could cut funding to the agency that oversees flood control to over 9 million people by over $415 million over the next five years.

The Florida Department of Education released its first comprehensive rewrite of science learning standards in nearly two decades, with the last one adopted in 2008.

As the continuously warming climate allows plant pests and diseases to spread further and wider, a researcher says Florida gets about one new pest or plant disease every month.

In late August and early September, the largest collection of Florida's most endangered coral spawned in a Key Largo nursery. Thousands of babies are now being raised in labs around the state, which scientists hope could help revive elkhorn coral on North America's only barrier reef.

To understand how climate patterns are changing, we need to understand what happened during El Niño events in the past, but observations go back only a few decades. So, my colleagues and I went to the Galápagos Islands – at the heart of the El Niño pattern – to find answers from some of nature’s best record keepers: corals.

Alaska's North Slope tundra may look desolate, but crouch down and you'll see a lush jungle. It's just so small, it's almost all below your knee. Researchers are studying this Arctic region, which is warming four times faster than the rest of Earth.

Publishers acceded to state requests watering down information on climate change's impact, WUSF/Hechinger Report investigation finds. Now the state has turned to updating its science standards.

More schools in Miami-Dade are turning to fake grass to carpet their outdoor areas, usually because it can be cheaper than keeping up with watering and mowing.

Swaths of sargassum are blanketing the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, suffocating shorelines and snuffing out marine life while spooking visitors in areas that depend heavily on tourism.