Rising Sea Levels

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,...

Increasing sea rise is going to water down the value of some of the most coveted and expensive real estate in Florida, and insurance rates will go up too.

We'll talking with Dr. Don Chambers, professor of physical oceanography in the College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Dr.…

A bill sponsored by state Rep. Cyndi Stevenson (R-St. Augustine) that would establish a statewide Office of Resiliency along with a statewide Sea Level...

On a stretch of the Lower Keys, near an old borrow pit quarried during the construction of Big Pine, sea water and mud cover much of the rocky ground.