climate change

A new project funded by a nearly $700,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency aims to add more nature to the interior of the county, turning underutilized parks, empty lots of other spaces into “green infrastructure” that addresses flooding and extreme heat with plants and water features.

It's been a record-breaking year for sea turtles in Florida. Just as they have for millions of years, the turtles have crawled onto beaches, digging pits in the sand to lay their eggs.

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.

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.

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.

Florida scientists are determining how cattle grazing impacts plants, green house gas emissions, and carbon stored in the soil, using collars and cell towers.

Electric vehicle drivers in Florida may be paying extra for their registration in 2024 Jim Gregory, with Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, explains how EVs impact the economy.

Some housing developers are building homes with an eye toward making them more resilient to such extreme weather, and friendlier to the environment at the same time.

With a $310 million estimate in front of them, Key Biscayne leaders are scaling back an ambitious plan to address sea level rise with miles of pressurized pipes, pumping stations, and raised roads.

This week's king tides are a natural occurrence — the entire coast of North America feels them — but the outsized impact in South Florida is not. They’ve been supercharged by sea level rise in recent decades. And as unchecked climate change continues, experts say these high tide floods will get worse and more common.

Florida residents not only acknowledge climate change at a higher rate than the rest of the U.S., they also want both the state and federal government to do something about it.

One million Florida properties are projected to be underwater. Today, those properties fund nearly 30% of local revenues for more than half the state's municipalities.