climate change

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.

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) plans to build what it calls an “Aerial Highway Network” that includes places the futuristic aircraft can charge, take-off and land.

Century-old reports from South Florida’s founding botanists say that breadfruit would only thrive in the Caribbean and Hawaii, and possibly as far north as Key West. Now, as climate change pushes temperatures higher, that is starting to change.

Field researchers at the Coral Restoration Lab rushed from the ocean, carrying plastic crates filled with elkhorn corals. They join a wave of rescue missions on Florida’s coast that are removing corals from the sea, in hopes that they can give this vital form of marine life a fighting chance this blistering summer.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Florida finalized the deal Tuesday that allows the state to take control of completing a flow-way that moves more freshwater into Florida Bay.

More than a hundred students, parents and teachers are worried that the fake grass poses a health and environmental risk to students as temperatures continue to rise in South Florida.

As costs continue to outpace wages and retirement incomes, some homeowners are making a high-stakes calculation to go without insurance altogether.

Researchers at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School found temperature data collected from wayfaring sharks helped improve short-term climate forecasts.

After Palm Beach County declines to add sand for the third year, the city plans to do it.

There’s no consensus on what’s driving Florida’s soaring insurance rates. A national report points to increasingly costly weather events — many of which are intensified by climate change — but some industry experts blame years of rampant litigation and soaring reinsurance costs.

Insurance is supposed to soften the blow when homes burn or flood. With some preparation, you can better your odds of a smoother recovery if disaster strikes.

Forecasters expect 8 to 14 storms will form in the Atlantic between June 1 and November 30. But the danger is more serious than the numbers suggest.