climate change

About half of Miami’s signature native trees might not be able to handle the rising temperatures caused by climate change.

As sea level rise pushes more water ashore, and as warming temperatures create more rain, we explore the idea of how schools might adapt to the new climate reality.

Alligators are sensitive to environmental changes in the Everglades. That makes them what scientists call a good “indicator species” for assessing progress in Everglades restoration.

For the first time, a federal study calculated the risk from rising groundwater on a warming planet. South Florida represents the vast majority of that risk, with about 7.5 million people and $750 billion dollars in property under threat.

"Some may seek to deny or delay the clean energy revolution that's underway in America, but nobody — nobody — can reverse it," Biden said. But Trump has vowed to roll back those plans.

CNN’s Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir visited Barry University in Miami Shores late last month for a climate talk discussing his new book Life As We Know It (Can Be) and the hopeful stories of climate resiliency he’s captured from across the country.

Joseph Cannon, a Cedar Key clam farmer, reflects on the damage from Hurricane Helene.

Advocates of the technology say it will ease the sector’s labor shortage, help farmers manage rising costs, and provide workers with respite from extreme weather — issues that are closely related to climate change.

This fall, the Met pairs images of Florida by Walker Evans and Anastasia Samoylova, the first living female photographer with a major show there in some three decades.

The estimated $310 million Resilient Infrastructure Adaptation Program is aimed at protecting Key Biscayne from increased rainfall and sea-level rise predicted due to climate change. It includes burying utility lines, fortifying the coast, re-pitching roads and replacing the stormwater system.

The science about climate change’s role in hurricanes is still considered unsettled, experts told PolitiFact, but more recent studies looking at the past 40 years have found that the storms forming now tend to be stronger than in the past.

COMMENTARY It's a good bet Pre-Columbian peoples would have been smarter about modern hurricanes than Florida's climate change denier-in-chief is showing himself to be.