Young Americans are determined to halt the damage caused by the warming climate
By Will Charouhis, Forces of Nature This month we celebrated the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. But it didnât feel ...
Month: April 2020
Broward County adopts regulations that require property owners to fix seawalls and disclose whether property is in ‘tidal-flooding area’
Albert J. Slap, Coastal Risk Consulting, and Jeff Marcus, Miller Legg, Inc. Â Broward County has passed an ordinance that sets ...
Republicans can be on the front lines of finding free-market solutions to climate change
By Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, former member of U.S. House of Representatives Our climate is changing. This is no longer a debate ...
A cleaner, healthier Florida will help our state recover and thrive after this Covid-19 crisis
By Dawn Shirreffs, Environmental Defense Fund Across America, families like mine are hunkered down, scared and in search of ways ...
The Clean Waterways Act is not going to save Floridaâs waterways; they need âRights of Natureâ protection
By John Moran, water advocate  Itâs a fair question: Since the Florida Legislature passed the Clean Waterways Act of 2020, ...
COVID-19 shows that we must trust in science to solve problems; science is telling us we need to address the climate crisis now
By Delaney Reynolds, The Sink or Swim Project Today, more than ever, science and scientists are the key to our ...
Voters need to support political candidates who grasp the urgency of the climate crisis
By Louis Merlin and Susan Kaye of Citizensâ Climate Lobby and Mary Cassell of the Sierra Club Every election season, voters ...
The coronavirus pandemic is frightening and damaging, but climate change is even worse
By Pamela McVety, biologist I have never given more than a few moments consideration to what my life would be ...
The celebration of Earth Day 2020 may be subdued, but protecting the environment is more important than ever
By Beam Furr, Broward County Commissioner Every year on April 22, thousands of Americans take to the streets â marching, ...
The pandemic has taught us that we can respond to harsh scientific facts; itâs time we do the same about the climate crisis
By Aria McKenna, The CLEO Institute As countries have responded to the pandemic by shuttering factories, reducing air travel and ...
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