Manatees don’t hire lobbyists, pollute Florida’s waters, drive boats recklessly or use septic tanks
By Jon Paul “J.P.” Brooker November is Manatee Awareness Month, and while people from all over the world know a ...
Month: November 2022
Conservation Florida and Florida Department of Environmental Protection conserve 615-acre Crippen Ranch
By Conservation Florida Conservation Florida and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Division of State Lands have completed the conservation ...
Miami high school student reports on the last-ditch effort to save the planet: Negotiators at COP27 failed to achieve any significant agreements
By Will Charouhis, Ransom Everglades student With the planet teetering on the brink of apocalypse, the United Nations World Climate ...
Hurricanes Ian, Nicole are warning for Florida to take climate change impacts more seriously
The Palm Beach Post Editorial Board Fourteen days and counting — that's the time between now and the end of the ...
USA makes strong showing at UN climate conference, but we won’t make much progress unless we resolve our political differences
By John Capece, the Kissimmee Waterkeeper Imagine convening an abstinence convention in Las Vegas and you begin to get an ...
Florida has made progress battling greenhouse gas emissions, but much more needs to be done
By Rosemary O’Hara Among the many surprise findings from a benchmark study of Florida greenhouse gas emissions is that electric ...
To ease the state’s insurance woes and improve access to beaches, Florida governments should buy damaged beachfront properties
By Robert F. Sanchez, Right to the Point On an island a few miles south of Charleston, South Carolina, you’ll ...
Mayor’s veto was right: Miami’s growth shouldn’t increase the risk of flooding and endanger the restoration of the Everglades
By The Miami Herald Editorial Board Miami-Dade County commissioners this month decided, for the first time in nine years, to ...
The warming climate is damaging the Florida that I enjoyed so much while growing up in the state
By Jeff Dorian, Citizens’ Climate Lobby My family moved to Miami from Pittsburgh, Pa. in 1962. We joined millions of ...
Florida university students stream reports from the UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt
By Campus Climate Corps Florida university students kicked off their coverage of COP27, this year’s United Nations climate conference being ...
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