Nearly 90 percent of all sea turtle nesting in the United States occurs on Florida beaches. Every summer, thousands of threatened and endangered sea turtles emerge from the water at night to lay their eggs in the sand.
Miamians can call a Lyft, grab a Lime scooter, or hop on a Citi Bike all from the palm of their hand. And beginning next week, they’ll also be able to jump on a paddleboard.
Changes announced this week to the Endangered Species Act will make it even more difficult to protect endangered wildlife or designate areas as critical habitats.
El Paso. Dayton. Chicago. Gilroy. At a time when America is yet again reeling from the devastation of gun violence, the Parkland student activists are taking their fight to the highest court in the nation.
We’re only one week into August, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has already upgraded its forecast for the rest of the hurricane season. Conditions in the Atlantic are now more hospitable to hurricane activity.
Florida — home of armed iguana hunters, exploding toilets, and the nation’s grandparents — just so happens to be the perfect petri dish for algal blooms. Because blue-green algae absorb energy from the sun and quickly grow in warm freshwater, the Sunshine State offers optimal conditions for the microorganisms called cyanobacteria to thrive.
The morning of June 20, Michael Morell woke up as he did every weekday, when his alarm clock rang at 6. The 34-year-old father of two sat up and reached over to his bedside table to hit snooze. But when he attempted to lie back down, his muscles became rigid, leaving him frozen in a sitting position.
In exchange for a public park, Miami Beach amended its city code last week to allow real-estate developers to build a luxury condo and hotel where a parking lot currently resides on Ocean Terrace.
The court battle over Florida’s abortion waiting period has been ongoing ever since state legislators passed House Bill 633 in 2015, requiring women to wait 24 hours after meeting with their doctor before having an abortion.
New HIV cases are on the decline nationwide — except for the Southeast. Nearly half of all HIV cases are now in minority communities in Southern states, and Miami’s rate of HIV infection is nearly four times that of the U.S. average.
The City of Miami has decided to bring Ultra Music Festival back to Bayfront Park.
A new scientific study links nitrogen to the mysterious disease killing Florida’s coral reefs.
Scientists are testing cyanobacteria in the Caloosahatchee River to better understand how harmful algar blooms develop and why.
Dr. Cheryl Holder was volunteering at the Overtown Music & Arts Festival this past weekend when an 11-year-old girl was brought in to the medical tent. The temperature was in the low 90s, but the heat index level — a combination of heat and humidity that more accurately explains what the temperature feels like — was closer to triple digits. Noticing the girl was extremely ill and unaware of her surroundings, Holder treated her young patient for heat exhaustion.
On the outskirts of Wynwood is a colorful warehouse-turned-Airbnb where 25 teenagers are on a mission to save the world. As electronic and pop music plays loudly inside, students huddle together on their laptops to put the finishing touches on their plans for this weekend’s Youth Climate Summit in Miami.
This year marked the first Supercon put on by ReedPOP, as well as the event’s return to Miami Beach.
For years, the Miami-Dade public school system has been aware of the so-called “school-to-prison pipeline,” in which troubled students are arrested instead of being disciplined at the school level. Almost always, the kids swept into the criminal justice system are students of color. So as part of a national movement…
Hannibal Buress can’t stay away from Miami for too long. The comedian announced his return to the Magic City Tuesday night, a week after performing an intimate pop-up set for 80 lucky fans at Little Haiti’s Villain Theater. Buress will be filming his next comedy special August 10 at Olympia Theater…
A contingent of Parkland moms was outside the Arsht Center in Miami Thursday night.
Amidst controversy, Wynwood celebrated its first-ever LGBTQ pride event this weekend in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Stonewall.
Florida residents currently stand to bear the largest cost burden for sea-level rise and climate adaptation. Twenty-three Florida counties face costs of more than $1 billion for seawall expenses, according to the Center for Climate Integrity.
