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  Miami Beach Commissioners Retreat From Plan to Sue Gov. Rick Scott Over Red Tide

  November 1 at 8:30 a.m.

  For months, Rick Scott has faced scorching criticism over Florida’s red tide crisis, which has brought heaps of dead fish to the state’s shorelines and shuttered its beaches because people literally can’t breathe. Thanks to his years of environmental deregulation and budget slashing, the term-limited governor has been branded “Red...

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  Global Warming Will Bake Florida's Outdoor Workers, Study Warns

  October 31 at 9 a.m.

  Climate change will hurt working-class and poor communities the hardest. Monsoons and absurd levels of heat are already battering huge portions of India, for example. Closer to home, much has already been written about "climate gentrification" in Miami — that is, the process by which wealthier people are buying...

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  Climate Resiliency Can Save South Florida's Future, but Only if Communities Take Action

  October 25 at 12:49 p.m.

  Few issues facing the Florida peninsula are more pressing than climate change. Sea-level rise, saltwater intrusion, and rising temperatures all pose serious threats to the Sunshine State, and all of them are directly linked to our shifting climate. In 2015, during a speech given on Earth Day in the Everglades, President Barack Obama praised Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Monroe Counties for uniting to take on climate change.

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  Misael Soto's Installation Sand Tackles Sea-Level Rise in Miami Beach

  October 25 at 8 a.m.

  A few years ago, around the time Misael Soto was asked to contribute to an exhibition on sea-level rise for Miami-Dade County, the artist drove down a flooded Indian Creek Drive in Miami Beach while two gas-powered pumps sucked sea water from the road and spewed it back into the bay. It was, as Soto recalls, an utterly absurd scenario.

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  This South Florida Haunted House Stages a Real-Life Horror: Environmental Apocalypse

  October 23 at 8 a.m.

  What’s scarier than a world where an environmental apocalypse has destroyed all we hold dear? This Halloween, Space of Mind, a homeschooling center in Delray Beach, will produce an educational, dystopian haunted house titled Planet SOS that displays an environment ravaged by wasteful humans. “The goal [of Planet SOS]...

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  Brickell Residents Flip Out When City Tears Out Grass, Replaces It With Fake Turf

  October 11 at 8 a.m.

  Miami has a reputation for being the kind of city where it's fine to fake it. But city officials' decision to replace dozens of plots of real grass with artificial-turf-covered concrete is not going over well.