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.
Hurricanes: They suck! You’re out of power for days or weeks, all the food in your fridge spoils, maybe your house or boat or houseboat gets completely destroyed and you have to move, and you probably have no WiFi in the meantime.
Hurricane Dorian isn’t supposed to hit Florida until Tuesday. Forecasters still don’t even know where the storm will make landfall. But that hasn’t stopped Floridians from preparing for the worst: Social media users have already posted images of long lines at grocery stores and barren shelves at home-improvement warehouses.
Miami Beach is known around the world for its colorful art deco hotels, boozy party scene, and, on a less fun note, sunny-day flooding. In recent years, dozens of international publications, from Vogue to the New Yorker, have written about how the city — which was basically built on a sandbar — experiences extreme flooding during king tides, when the moon is closest to the Earth.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced that they have suspended immigration enforcement operations in Florida until Dorian passes. Immigrant advocacy groups say they’re still preparing for the worst.
The likelihood that Hurricane Dorian will make hit the Sunshine State is increasing. The storm is now predicted to make landfall on Florida’s east coast as a Category 4 hurricane on Labor Day, according to the National Hurricane Center’s latest projections, released at 5 p.m.
We’ve all been there: You get to Publix after a long shift at work, days before a hurricane is projected to mess up your entire weekend. The shelves are picked clean, with just a few lone bottles of Topo Chico and a single can of tuna left for grabs. Someone inevitably throws a tantrum — or a punch. You really do hate to see it.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis formally declared a state of emergency this afternoon as Hurricane Dorian continues on its path toward South Florida.
If you’ve lived in Miami longer than, say, one week, you’re probably familiar with the South Florida weather sensation known as king tides. During a few stretches of the year when the moon is closest to the Earth, the gravitational pull causes higher-than-normal tides, prompting the hellish phenomenon of sunny-day flooding.
It’s pretty much inevitable that you will face at least one hurricane during your time in Miami. From June 1 to November 30, Floridians are basically always on edge about when the next storm might strike. And thanks to climate change and global warming, hurricanes over the coming years will…
The Amazon rainforest has been ablaze for weeks, cloaking Brazilian cities in smog and drawing international concern. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who campaigned on reopening the Amazon to business, says his government can’t stop the wildfires. For environmental protesters in Miami and other major cities around the world, that’s not good enough.
Last week, the Trump administration severely weakened the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in a series of changes that included erasing climate change as a threat to wildlife and removing protections from threatened species. In response, a group of environmental and animal protection organizations has filed a lawsuit arguing the amendments violate the law.
