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Florida in Focus: Climate Change News

A network of newsrooms across the state, including the Tampa Bay Times, have banded together to track the impacts of climate change.

  1. A manatee swims to the surface for some air at the Manatee Viewing Center at the Tampa Electric Big Bend power plant on Dec. 22, 2023, in Apollo Beach.
  2. Erin Roth, left, is shown in the entrance of her porch along with her neighbor Douglas McVey at her mobile home at the Twin City manufactured home community at 10636 Gandy Blvd. N. in St. Petersburg. Pinellas County is requiring tenants to raise their homes by June or leave the park.
  3. Alyssa Andres with the Crystal River Bull Shark Project releases a young shark after gathering data on Feb. 11 in Crystal River.
  4. Wind turbines stand at an offshore wind farm in Britain. Florida is poised to ban offshore wind energy in state waters.
  5. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released graphics showing sea surface temperature anomalies across the globe. Experts say temperatures are record-hot, even off the heels of an already unprecedented summer of ocean heat.
  6. Duke Energy laborers work on power lines at a home on Sixth St. S. after strong storms came through the area in January. Members of the City Council have proposed the idea of parting from a contract with Duke Energy when an agreement comes up for renewal in 2026.
  7. A drone photo shows damage at Florida's Horseshoe Beach in the Big Bend area after Hurricane Idalia made landfall Aug. 30.
  8. Some workers are shown wearing facial coverings and long sleeves to protect themselves from the hot sun while working at USF St. Petersburg in this 2015 file photo.
  9. An aerial drone photo shows the neighborhoods in Redington Beach. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the town of Redington Beach would be entirely flooded with a 2-foot sea-level rise.
  10. Owner and operator Dr. Lanette Sobel, 45, checks on the progress of a compost pile at Fertile Earth Worm Farm in Homestead.
  11. An electric school bus is shown in Los Angeles. The Miami-Dade school district soon will have 100 of them on the roads.
  12. A new bill floating through the Florida Legislature would make it illegal to release balloons into the environment, with littering fines up to $150. Under current Florida law, it's illegal to release more than 10 balloons within a 24-hour period.
  13. Dead fish, the result of red tide, are shown moving out of Clearwater Harbor on the north side of Sand Key Park in 2018. Red tide can be fueled by excess nutrients from fertilizers, and despite hundreds of municipalities banning fertilizer in the summer, environmental groups fear a pause on creating new fertilizer bans could be extended during the 2024 Florida legislative session.
  14. Water pushes onto the streets of Shore Acres, a St. Petersburg neighborhood, in 2019. Instances of flooding caused by higher tides is expected to increase over the coming decades in Tampa Bay as sea levels rise.
  15. Traffic crosses the hump on the eastbound Howard Frankland Bridge toward Tampa. Florida's transportation department is declining $320 million to help reduce tailpipe emissions across the state, federal officials say.
  16. Small planes are parked at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after it was forced to shut down due to flooding on April 13. It's been a rainfall tale of two states in Florida this year, where the southeast coast has been inundated by sometimes-record rainfall and much of the Gulf coast is dry as a bone.
  17. St. Petersburg Fire and Rescue responds to a call of a fire in a house on a  flooded street in Shore Acres in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia on Aug. 31 in St. Petersburg.
  18. Archaeologist Neil Puckett swims with a mastodon bone he dug up from the bottom of the Aucilla River.
  19. This satellite imagery from earlier this hurricane season reveals that tropical Storms Philippe and Rina are less than 500 miles from each other. A new study finds that hurricanes are strengthening earlier in the hurricane season than in previous decades.
  20. The first drone photos of Florida's Horseshoe Beach in the Big Bend area show it was inundated.
  21. Sherri Mullis, left, the head of Tampa's Tree-mendous program, and Sirlewis Bailey, of Pine Lakes Nursery & Landscape, plant a Florida maple tree near the 3400 block of West Cherokee Avenue on Aug. 23 in Tampa.
  22. An aerial view on West Gray Street near North Archer Street looking west toward North Himes Avenue, where there are very few large shade trees on July 6 in Tampa. At right, Benjamin Brown heads back to his home after taking his recycling bin out to the curb.
  23. Aerial view of a wildfire in the Indian Lake Estate subdivision near Lake Wales in April 2017. Dozens of firefighters battled the 700+ acre wildfire saving dozens of homes with fire approaching within feet of the houses. Fire officials evacuated the hundreds of residents in the subdivision but lifted the evacuation order. LUIS SANTANA   |   Times
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