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Seawalls, despite more natural innovations like "living" shorelines, aren’t going anywhere in Florida — except up.
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'Living' shorelines featuring mangroves instead of plain seawalls are popular with environmentalists, but permitting and public resistance in Miami-Dade make them tough to build.
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While making these changes comes with a hefty price tag, there is opportunity for economic growth, leaders say.
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The collapse, captured by satellite images, occurred in East Antarctica — an area long thought to be stable and not hit much by climate change, scientists say.
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Lower-income households or renters living inland would be the most impacted by sea level rise displacement, and they tend to be those with the least capacity to move and adapt, an FSU researcher said.
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Regulators said the extensions until the 2050s were based on outdated environmental information. The reversal now allows FPL's South Florida reactors to remain in operation for another decade.
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Billions of people rely on glaciers for drinking water, hydropower and irrigation. A raft of new research suggests there is less ice left than previously thought.
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The canals were originally dredged to drain marshes to make way for cattle and farms. Conditions proved too harsh for settlers but the canals remained, growing wider and causing the collapse of inland freshwater marshes.
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But neighborhoods 20 miles inland are starting to feel the impact, as the Atlantic Ocean’s higher elevation makes it harder for drainage canals to keep them dry. The problem showed up last year in Tropical Storm Eta, when floodwater remained in southwest Broward neighborhoods for days, partly because the elevated ocean blocked canals from draining the region.
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St. Petersburg currently sees about seven high-tide flood events per year. But in a decade, researchers expect that number to soar to 67 per year.
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As local government officials plan for more than a foot of sea level rise by 2050, flooding concerns are the focus of South Florida's real estate market.
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A new investigation from WLRN looks at how senior care facilities are at great risk of hurricanes and rising seas. Vaccine hesitancy in South Florida. Plus, new technology to track what different species are eating underwater.