Rising Sea Levels

An important point for politicos on the entire spectrum, and we speak to them all, is how often DeSantis sends taxpayer dollars to the Everglades restoration, in this case $750 million a year

Ahead of National Public Lands Day we explore the importance of public lands and the need for more comprehensive environmental and climate change education for students and the general public as well as research on the impacts of climate anxiety in a conversation with Jennifer Jones, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Environment and Society at the Water School at Florida Gulf Coast University and Heather-Skaza Acosta, Ph.D., interim Director of the Whitaker Center for STEM education at FGCU.

Rising seas will shift tidal boundaries, leading to the loss of taxable properties, according to a new study. This is expected to impact the tax base of hundreds of U.S. coastal counties, with Florida being the state most affected.

The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law this month by President Biden, includes more than $360 billion for energy and climate reform. We’ll explore what the new law could mean for climate change mitigation efforts in Florida with professor and Director of the Center for Environment and Society at Florida Gulf Coast University Jennifer Jones, Ph.D.

River Park is an historically African American community in Naples, right on the Gordon River. Being so close to the water and canals has both residents and the NAACP thinking about the neighborhood’s future as the potential impacts of climate change become reality.

We are all connected by the environment we share. The Earth is our home. This is the space where we share the environmental stories that caught our attention this week in Florida and beyond.

The tool is part of a new law taking effect July 1 that calls for projects using state money to conduct studies on damage and costs tied to sea rise. Critics say the law falls short by not requiring fixes.

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...

The Florida Legislature has two more weeks to move on the creation of a statewide resiliency task force. The group of appointees would provide the state...

When Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys in 2017, it sent a four- to six-foot storm surge to Biscayne Bay more than 100 miles away,...