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"Rising temperatures, shifting precipitation, and emerging diseases are among the mélange of climate impacts . . ."

Florida's Attorney General's office is pushing back against a climate lawsuit filed by a group of young adults.

President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech pledge to declare an energy emergency echoes Gov. Ron DeSantis' resistance to fighting climate change.

A bleak side-by-side image of the weather on opposite sides of the United States this week appears to show a stark shift in weather behavior. This week, several states in the South saw a rare and deadly snowstorm while Alaska was snow-free with a partially sunny sky.

Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency after areas of Florida experienced snowfall and freezing weather.

Colson was candid about Cedar Key’s much-publicized ecological challenges: rising sea levels, king tide flooding, continuing access to fresh water, struggling clam and oyster farmers, and the difficult task of keeping Cedar Key viable for the working and middle classes.

Extreme weather events can wreck physical damage as well, causing restaurant shut downs that can be hard to recover from. Ani Meinhold, chef of Phucyea and Pho Sho, lost electricity for a month after Hurricane Irma which she said caused more than $300,000 in loses.

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.

Duffy ordered his chief of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to “propose the rescission or replacement of any fuel economy standards” necessary to bring the rules in line with Trump’s priority of promoting oil and biofuel.

Ron DeSantis in storm-vulnerable Florida. Trump announced wide-ranging reversals of President Biden’s climate change-fighting initiatives. Among them was a plan to ban wind turbines, echoing ...

Natural disasters affect property taxes, which can be shocking to homeowners, especially as they head into tax season.