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An Unlikely Coral Reef Becomes A Source Of Quarantine Entertainment

By Daniel Rivero • 18 hours ago

County and municipal marinas are closed, popular sandbars are empty for the first time in recorded history, and there are no cruise ships packed with passengers sailing out of South Florida’s ports. On the surface, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot going on when it comes to life on the water, due to the COVID-19 crisis.

That’s on the surface.

Warm Ocean Expected To Cook Up A Busy 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season

By Jenny Staletovich • Apr 2, 2020

Don’t look for any favors from this year’s hurricane season.

With Fewer Commutes, COVID-19 Gives Scientists A Look At Earth With Less Carbon

By Jenny Staletovich • Mar 30, 2020

With workers and businesses around the planet suddenly shut down, scientists are getting an unexpected glimpse at a world with less carbon.

A Florida First: Republican-Led Legislature Passes Climate Change Bill

By Alex Harris • Mar 13, 2020

José Javier Rodríguez, a state senator from Miami, has finally achieved the slogan he’s borne on his rubber boots for three years — ActOnClimateFL.

For the first time in a decade, Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature has passed a bill that explicitly acknowledges climate change’s threats to the state and aims to limit at least some impacts.

Protecting And Preserving Ancient Sites At Risk From Sea-Level Rise In Florida

By Greg Allen • Mar 12, 2020

Updated on March 16 at 8:42 p.m. ET

Long before condominiums lined the shoreline in Miami Beach, before air conditioning, many thousands of years before Columbus, people lived along Florida's coastline.

Archaeologists say the remains of their settlements are particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels as a result of climate change.

In Florida's Palm Beach County researchers are planning how best to protect and preserve the ancient sites most at risk from rising seas.

Report Shows Results From Year Of Taking Trash Off Keys Reef

By Nancy Klingener • Mar 11, 2020

Marine debris — or trash in the water — is a problem everywhere including the Florida Keys. And it got a lot worse when Hurricane Irma crashed across the Keys in September of 2017 as a Category 4 storm.

Spork? Check. Napkin? Check. But No More Plastic Straws In Miami-Dade School Cafeterias

By Jessica Bakeman • Mar 10, 2020

Forty-five million.

That’s how many plastic straws Miami-Dade County Public Schools was sending to landfills every school year, according to estimates by administrators.

This school year, that number is zero.

Starting last August, the district eliminated plastic straws from the utensil packets distributed during breakfasts, lunches and after-school meals. Now, students get sporks and napkins, and those who need straws can ask for the paper variety.

Ahead Of Florida Primary, I-4 Corridor Voters Weigh Environment, Climate

By Amy Green / WMFE • Mar 4, 2020

Sarasota is known for its sunny skies and beautiful beaches, but two years ago, a terrible outbreak of red tide left Bruce Andersen a virtual prisoner of his waterfront condo.

“It was to the point where we could hardly go outside without smelling the dead fish, all of the dead animals that came from that,” said Andersen, 75, a retired school administrator.

Under Drone Radar, Florida Park Becomes Living Lab For Sea Level Rise

By Zachary T. Sampson - Tampa Bay Times • Mar 3, 2020

Across the road from a snack shack in Fort De Soto Park, Gary Raulerson searches until he finds a gap in the cabbage palms. He ducks inside, branches creaking on a bright February morning. He plods a few steps past an orange survey flag.

Sunlight slashes through dead Brazilian pepper trees, brought here more than a century ago for decoration, now invasive. Raulerson tries to avoid poison ivy. Sweat pricks his back.

South Florida Medical Fraud, Broward Beach Safety & Dinosaur Climate Change Exhibit

By Alejandra Martinez • Feb 24, 2020

On this Monday, Feb. 24, episode of Sundial:

South Florida woman given clemency by Trump

Last week, President Donald Trump announced 11 pardons and commutations in high-profile cases.

Among them: Judith Negron, a South Florida woman who was convicted in a $200 million Medicare fraud scheme 10 years ago.

Researchers Say Neurotoxin Helps Explain Indian River Lagoon Dolphin Deaths

By Amy Green - WMFE • Feb 24, 2020

Researchers say they’ve detected a potent neurotoxin in dolphins of the Indian River Lagoon during times of harmful algae blooms and also when blooms are not present.

Environmental Reporter Moderates Debate; South Beach Wine & Food Fest; Puerto Rican Singer iLe

By Alejandra Martinez • Feb 20, 2020

Courtesy of Florida International University's Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management

On this Thursday, Feb. 20, episode of Sundial:

Environmental reporter moderates presidential debate

The Democratic presidential debate in Nevada was moderated by its first climate journalist, Vanessa Hauc.

"The Democratic field takes [climate change] very seriously," Hauc says. "Right now, we have a clear understanding of what is happening to our planet."

Corps Plan To Protect Keys: Raise Some Homes, Buy Out Others

By Nancy Klingener • Feb 19, 2020

Coping with storm surge fueled by rising seas in the Keys means elevating homes, buyouts in vulnerable areas, protecting important places like hospitals and wastewater plants and stabilizing parts of the Overseas Highway that could get washed out in storms.

‘Invisible Oil’ From Deepwater Horizon Spill May Have Reached The Florida Keys

By ADRIANA BRASILEIRO AND DAVID GOODHUE / Miami Herald • Feb 19, 2020

Florida Keys residents may not have seen massive tar balls and fish kills after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but small concentrations of toxic crude were still reaching the islands and potentially harming marine life, as the extent of the deadly disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was worse than originally thought, according to a University of Miami study.

Jeff Bezos Pledges $10 Billion To Fight Climate Change, Planet's 'Biggest Threat'

By Amy Held • Feb 17, 2020

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced Monday he is committing $10 billion to fight climate change, which he calls "the biggest threat to our planet."

Bezos says the funds will go toward the creation of the Bezos Earth Fund.

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