With climate change comes rising sea levels, and that means many parts of Florida are expected to return to the seas. Thankfully, it doesn’t appear as though the entire state will get drowned out ...

Water is the lifeblood of Florida. Despite the state’s abundant rainfall and prolific aquifers, its primary potable water source, fresh groundwater, is under threat from a combination of population ...

Florida has always been a land of profound changes. Sea level has naturally risen and fallen over thousands of years, greatly expanding and contracting the peninsula. A key difference now is that the ...

The signs of a changing climate are no longer subtle, they’re here, and they’re reshaping life in Florida. Hurricane Helene ...

The devastating hurricanes that made landfall in Florida less than six weeks before the November elections killed more than 230 people across the Southeast and caused an eye-popping $50 billion in ...

Seen from the air, a Florida freshwater spring is a bit of liquid heaven, luring humans and wildlife to enjoy its aquamarine cool. With at least 1,000 of them — more than any other state — the springs ...

In a lab at the University of Miami, there are tanks of knobby, tan-colored corals from Florida, Honduras and the Cayman Islands. They've been drafted into a sort of coral Olympics, as scientists look ...

It's been dangerously hot for days now. There's a heat advisory in effect for the Tampa area Wednesday from noon to 7 p.m. Meteorologists expect a high of 94 degrees with a heat index between 105 ...

One of the important questions that experts will tackle this week when they gather for the Climate Adaptation Center’s fifth annual Climate Forecast Conference will be how we’re going to pay for a ...

Though construction and development have diminished the Everglades to half their original size, South Florida is still defined by this vast wetland. Just how, exactly, do they help protect us from ...

Despite a ‘rain bomb’ that flooded this home in the Edgewood neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale in April 2023, property values there have largely rebounded in the months since. Matias J. Ocner As a ...

This story was produced in collaboration with APM Research Lab. If you buy groceries in the United States, you may have noticed that they’ve become more expensive. Inflation, as measured by the ...