Climate & Environment

This weekend is full of rain and weather hazards. Bah humbug.

Solo cups, plastic hummus containers, and disposable cutlery are considered trash, not recyclable items.

You’re sure to see at least three pairs of Ugg boots this morning and maybe a musty leather jacket.

Veterans Day commemorates the end of World War I, when the guns fell silent across the Western Front at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Since that time, average global temperatures have increased by an average of 1.5 degrees — and experts say that’s no doubt affecting today’s U.S. military operations.

While the rest of the country is already well into a mysterious season called “fall,” Miami remains positively swampy. Today’s projected high is 86 degrees — some 50 degrees warmer than the expected peak temperatures in Chicago, Buffalo, and Detroit.

About a hundred years ago, Florida’s bonneted bats inhabited large hollows of mature pines and glided over the vast space of the Sunshine State’s 180,000 acres of pine rockland while feeding on insects.

It’s basically still summer in the Magic City. Take one step outside without sunglasses, and the searing sun instantly blinds you. Go for a short walk, and the sticky humidity soon drenches your clothes in sweat.

Nobody should be surprised that President Donald Trump selected his South Florida golf resort to host the G7 summit. Ever since this year’s summit wrapped up in France, he’s been pushing the Trump National Doral Miami as a venue and dismissed allegations of Emoluments Clause violations.

Sea turtles suffering from toxic red tide exposure could benefit from a therapy used to treat human drug overdoses

For the past week, parts of Miami have basically become a water park. King tide — the phenomenon that creates sunny-day flooding due to the positioning of the moon — began last Thursday and ended yesterday. South Florida streets were soaked with saltwater, inconveniencing just about everyone.

King tides happen during storms; king tides happen when it’s warm. Moon proximity makes oceans swarm. King tides during fall are the norm.

Miami is a worldwide tourist destination for its beautiful beaches and clean water — but nobody can enjoy it when shit is spilling into the bay. Aging pipes installed near Oleta River State Park in the ‘960s ruptured last month, resulting in 1.5 million gallons of raw sewage leaking into the Oleta River and Biscayne Bay.

A little over a year ago, 15-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg took time off from school to sit outside the Parliament of Sweden while holding a sign that translated to “school strike for the climate.” Within weeks, students from other European countries, including Germany and Holland, replicated Thunberg’s effort…

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Thursday announced the repeal of the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, eliminating the clean-water regulations enacted by the Obama administration in 2015 and making it easier for polluters to use chemicals linked to toxic algal blooms.

Advocates for the kids held at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children have already said the conditions inside the facility have likely left migrant kids with permanent psychological trauma. Now, a new report issued by an activist group suggests the children might have also been poisoned at the detention facility.

Miami dodged a bullet last week. Hurricane Dorian, just a wobble off South Florida’s coast, was one of the strongest and longest-lasting Atlantic hurricanes on record.

The staggering thing about Rick Scott has always been the shamelessness with which he conducts himself. Sure, he’s transparently corrupt, but there are certainly other lawmakers who give him a run for his money in that regard. His policy pitches, likewise, are almost uniformly designed to protect the wealthy…

Overnight, Hurricane Dorian has barely moved as it continues its assault on the Bahamas. Today the U.S. Coast Guard announced it will begin search-and-rescue missions in the Abacos. After confirming at least five dead so far, Bahamian officials report there are “a number of people in serious distress.”

Category 5 winds ripped through the open windows of a home in the Abaco Islands. Outside, floodwaters surged. Portions of the roof had already blown away.

Miamians are rallying together to help their island neighbors as Hurricane Dorian continues to bulldoze the Bahamas. Dorian rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane over the weekend before making landfall in the Bahamas yesterday.

Hurricane Dorian couldn’t have arrived at a worse time for families of Florida’s incarcerated. Many had planned their three-day holiday weekend around visiting their loved ones, only to receive the news Thursday evening that visitation had been canceled throughout the state.

Last year, as Florence approached the United States, Mike Boylan went live from his home office in Oldsmar, about a half-hour north of Tampa. The storm for days had waffled between a Category 4 hurricane and a tropical storm, either of which could become a pain in the ass for parts of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas.