In the back of a mansion under construction in Miami Beach, contractors are installing what may be the future first line of coastal defense from erosion and climate-driven sea-rise. It’s a seawall but not your old-school plain poured concrete installation. This is a “living seawall” and it’s cutting-edge in both its design and how it is made.

Miami-Dade’s newly elected property appraiser says it’s time for county property estimators to factor in the harm that climate change will bring to the local real estate market — and to lower property values accordingly.

The Smithsonian Institution in the 1850s recruited hundreds of citizen scientists across the nation to track when they saw plants bud or grow leaves. At the time, Florida had been a state for only six years.

Homes, cars and streets were flooded with rainwater for days — and even weeks — after Hurricane Milton, which overwhelmed stormwater systems.

The building industry is “by far” the largest emitter of greenhouse gases of any sector, according to the U.N.

Homeownership insurance rates will keep going up, experts agree. There are myriad challenges facing the industry.

The FSU Native American and Indigenous Studies Center hosted its Two Tribes of Florida symposium Friday. One panel discussed how indigenous knowledge of the environment can help fight climate change.

Trump's picks to lead four federal agencies testified without the flashes of anger that marked Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi's earlier showdowns.

Miccosukee Tribal elder Michael Frank walks past chickees, stilt homes, used for community activities, on the Miccosukee Indian Reservation in the Florida Everglades, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) AP

Insurance companies are canceling homeowner policies across the U.S. — even in regions that aren't considered climate hot spots.

In the wake of the raging California wildfires, environmental groups are shifting the climate conversation away from mitigation, toward adaptation and resilience.

The fragile ecosystems of Apalachicola Bay can hardly sustain these challenges, much less the addition of another pipeline through its waters.