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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. Florida celebrates sea level rise planning tool after years ‘behind the curve’
    Feb. 18, 2021• Environment
    The new St. Pete Pier is shown under construction in late 2019.
  2. Uncertain future for Apalachicola, Ocklawaha, Shark River Slough
    Jan. 1, 2021• Environment
    Portions of Tamiami Trail are being raised on extensive bridging to allow more of Shark River Slough to flow into Everglades National Park. But old, original portions of Tamiami Trail roadbed must still be removed to allow more slough water to flow into the park. Armando Vilaboy, government-relations representative for the South Florida Water Management District, visited areas where slough water is escaping across the old roadbed as a preview of a much larger flow to come. [Kevin Spear | Orlando Sentinel]
  3. Bridges over Shark River Slough are restoring water flow into Everglades
    Dec. 31, 2020• Environment
    Erik Stabenau, on left and leaning forward, and Damon Rondeau, driving the park service airpboat, are supervisory hydrologists with Everglades National Park. The provided a tour of Shark River Slough, observing Tamiami Trail bridging and water-monitoring stations. [Kevin Spear | Orlando Sentinel]
  5. Weeds block free flow of Ocklawaha River from Silver Springs to St. Johns River
    Dec. 30, 2020• Environment
    Inspecting a boat ramp at the Ocklawaha River’s Rodman Reservoir are Jennifer Carr, president of the Florida Defenders of the Environment, and her daughter, Carmen, and the group’s executive director Jim Gross. Rodman Reservoir is plagued by a chronic growth of muck and floating weeds, as seen here at the boat ramp. Weeds have engulfed the ramp and dock. [Kevin Spear | Orlando Sentinel.]
  6. Crippled Apalachicola River leaves wetland forests in peril, famous oysters extinct
    Dec. 29, 2020• Environment
    Georgia Ackerman, director of the Apalachicola Riverkeeper group, ventures into the river’s final section near Apalachicola Bay. [Kevin Spear | Orlando Sentinel]
  7. Race to save 3 Florida treasures: Time running out for Apalachicola River, Ocklawaha River and Shark River Slough | Part 1
    Dec. 28, 2020• Environment
    Jennifer Carr, president of the Florida Defenders of the Environment, stands at Rodman Dam along the Ocklawaha River with her daughter, Carmen. [Kevin Spear | Orlando Sentinel]
  8. Florida media coalition receives grant for climate change work
    Nov. 12, 2020• Environment
    Lemay Acosta and his daughter Layla, 2, take a boat ride in his flooded neighborhood in Plantation a day after Tropical Storm Eta made landfall in the Florida Keys and flooded parts of South Florida on Monday.
  9. A melting sculpture at ZooTampa spreads message about climate change
    Sep. 18, 2020• Life & Culture
    "Melting Panthers," a biodegradable wax sculpture out to melt at Zoo Tampa to highlight the threat of climate change and raise awareness, on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020 in Tampa.
  10. World not meeting biodiversity goals, UN report finds
    Sep. 15, 2020• Environment
    Fish swim in a reef at Pearl and Hermes Atoll on Sept. 6, 2017, in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. A decade-long effort by the world to save the planet’s disappearing species and declining ecosystems has so far mostly failed, with fragile ecosystems like coral reefs and tropical forests in even more trouble than ever, according to a United Nations biodiversity report released on Sept. 15.
  11. Climate, COVID-19 blamed for Southern Africa’s hunger upsurge
    Sep. 7, 2020• Nation & World
    A woman jumps over water that runs down a street on Aug. 17 in Harare, Zimbabwe. An estimated 45 million people in Southern Africa are food insecure. Zimbabwe is the worst affected country, with its number of food insecure people expected to reach 8.6 million by the end of this year.
  12. Windstorm premiums are soaring in Florida again
    Jun. 30, 2020• Hurricane
    Clint Moore, 62, walks away from the ruins of his family-owned shrimping business in Simmons Bayou, Florida, eight days after Hurricane Michael devastated the area, leaving hundreds of thousands without shelter, power and food.
  13. Tampa studies how to make its stormwater system handle rising seas
    Mar. 16, 2020• Tampa
    Traffic moves through some street flooding near Edison Ave and Bayshore Blvd. as severe storms reach the area in April 2019.
  14. People and erosion threaten Florida lighthouse
    Mar. 9, 2020• Environment
    The Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse and surrounding area before sunset.
  15. 2 local officials join state climate panel
    Mar. 5, 2020• Environment
  16. Right whales even more at risk as deaths rise with climate change
    Feb. 17, 2020• Environment
    These marine mammals were named "right whales" because they were considered by whalers to be "the right ones to hunt."
  17. As seas rise, a Florida Keys ‘ghost forest’ makes a last stand
    Jan. 20, 2020• Environment
    Sea rise is pushing inland and amplifying the threats from hurricanes, wiping out one of the rarest forests on the planet in the Florida Keys.
  18. Your Florida coastal home could lose 15% of its value by 2030 due to sea rise
    Jan. 17, 2020• Real Estate
    Flooding from an October king tide in Miami Shores fills streets, sidewalks and driveways at its peak.
  19. A South Florida town’s pioneering plan to fund retreat from sea rise
    Dec. 27, 2019• Environment
    Daryle Prager, 81, stands at the highest point this year’s King Tides reached in her waterfront yard in Surfside. She said she doesn’t have much time before the water reaches her home, so she’s forced to sell the house.
  20. Florida Keys may abandon some roads to sea rise rather than raise them
    Dec. 6, 2019• Environment
    Motorists head north of Key Largo on U.S. 1, in anticipation of Hurricane Irma on Sept. 6, 2017. Keys officials announced a mandatory evacuation Wednesday for visitors, with residents being told to leave the next day. [Associated Press]
  21. Florida Keys faces huge bill to survive sea rise. Will state help?
    Nov. 26, 2019• Environment
    This is a king tide at the Key Largo Kampground & Marina in Key Largo. (Photo by Nancy Snyder)
  22. In Florida, home sellers don’t have to disclose a history of flooding
    Oct. 26, 2019• Environment
    Water from heavy rain floods a driveway in August on Snell Isle Boulevard NE in St. Petersburg. ALLIE GOULDING | Times
  23. Exxon goes on trial in New York climate fraud case
    Oct. 18, 2019• Environment
    Oil Sands mining operations at the Syncrude Canada Oil Sands project near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, on June 13, 2017. (Photo by Larry MacDougal, © Imago via ZUMA Press)
  24. New camera exposes pythons for hunters with special wavelength of light
    Oct. 17, 2019• Environment
    Researchers from the University of Central Florida and International innovation company, Imec have developed a camera that uses specific wavelength of light to easily find pythons in habitat where they are typically well camouflaged.
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