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"Rising temperatures, shifting precipitation, and emerging diseases are among the mélange of climate impacts . . ."

President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech pledge to declare an energy emergency echoes Gov. Ron DeSantis' resistance to fighting climate change.

Florida's Attorney General's office is pushing back against a climate lawsuit filed by a group of young adults.

Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency after areas of Florida experienced snowfall and freezing weather.

A mass of air called the polar vortex has escaped the Arctic and plunged southward. Some scientists see the fingerprints of climate change.

Extreme weather events can wreck physical damage as well, causing restaurant shut downs that can be hard to recover from. Ani Meinhold, chef of Phucyea and Pho Sho, lost electricity for a month after Hurricane Irma which she said caused more than $300,000 in loses.

In the back of a mansion under construction in Miami Beach, contractors are installing what may be the future first line of coastal defense from erosion and climate-driven sea-rise. It’s a seawall but not your old-school plain poured concrete installation. This is a “living seawall” and it’s cutting-edge in both its design and how it is made.

Trump Calls Climate Change "a Hoax" | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G This year’s wildfires in Los Angeles are apocalyptic—skies glow orange, ash rains down, and evacuations reach tens of thousands.

Duffy ordered his chief of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to “propose the rescission or replacement of any fuel economy standards” necessary to bring the rules in line with Trump’s priority of promoting oil and biofuel.

Insurance “nonrenewal” rates have been climbing nationwide. They’ve hit climate-sensitive areas including Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina and California.

Affordability, not armageddon, is how Miami-Dade County's new property appraiser describes his plan to use climate vulnerability when assessing property values.