Climate & Environment

After the deadliest year on record, manatee fatalities decreased in 2022. But the creatures remain in dire straits.

Miami Seaquarium has a newfound interest in releasing Lolita the orca from her cramped tank.

Kendall residents convinced an appeals panel to nix a county commission vote that allowed for a 550-home development on a former golf course.

A string of sewage leaks at Miami-area construction sites left city blocks and the Intracoastal Waterway inundated with raw sewage in 2021.

Having created record high tides in Miami on Wednesday, Nicole is set to make history if she reaches hurricane status.

Nicole’s tropical-storm force winds will extend hundreds of miles out from the storm’s eye.

Subtropical Storm Nicole is slipping in just when Floridians thought they were through with hurricane season.

In the face of rampant flooding around South Florida, a former duck boat captain wants to bring amphibious buses to the city of Miami.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed in a recent court settlement to propose a critical habitat for the critically endangered Florida Bonneted Bat in Miami.

As part of a larger recovery operation, fishing guides impacted by Hurricane Ian are chartering trips to Sanibel Island to help residents survey the damage.

The proposed Miami Wilds Water Park in South Dade has invited a battery of legal claims from conservationists who say the project endangers a set of rare species.

Rescuers from Florida Task Force 1 flew into battered Sanibel and Captiva islands to extract residents who had ridden out the storm.

Though folks might think this week’s tornadoes in Broward County were a rare occasion, South Florida has seen its fair share of twisters.

Coast-to-coast destruction all but ensures that Ian will go down in history as one of the most destructive storms to ever strike Florida.

Ian is expected to make landfall south of the Tampa Bay area Wednesday night as a Category 3 hurricane.

The storm is expected to intensify into a Category 3 Hurricane before approaching the Sunshine State.

The storm is expected to strengthen into a hurricane over the weekend before approaching the Sunshine State.

The storm was still wreaking havoc across Puerto Rico when it reached the Dominican Republic on Monday.

Brown basilisks, a lizard with a unique propensity for running on water, are making their home in Florida.

We might see our first August without a named Atlantic storm since 1997, but don’t get too comfortable.

Neighbors say herbicides are destroying the Little River’s ecosystem and threatening Biscayne Bay’s manatee population.

Study predicts Miami-Dade will see double the present average of days with a heat index above 100 degrees by 2053.