environment

Environmental justice advocates were circulating a petition for counties across Florida to use electric school buses at a weekend event to distribute free menstrual products and diapers in Tampa.

Eco-anxiety, or the “chronic fear of environmental doom,” is affecting the mental health of more and more people as they grapple with climate change.

In this discussion, we review the report's findings and recommendations with environmental experts and get firsthand accounts from a farmworker.

Researchers put a spotlight on the “skyrocketing” increase in discarded COVID masks and the "devastating" effect it is having on wildlife.

Parrish, in Manatee County, is included in a list ProPublica compiled that analyzes billions of rows of EPA data to map the spread of cancer-causing industrial air emissions down to the neighborhood level.

Observing for long-term health effects of algae will take between five and 10 years of studying. And now, during the pandemic, a new question has come up.

Power outages that followed Hurricane Irma affected 28,000 residents of Florida's nursing homes — and led to a 25% increase in deaths a week after the storm made landfall in September 2017.

The measure would direct money toward technology geared toward reducing the nitrates that fuel the blooms.

From Florida Roundup, a look back as the state's public media outlets reported on COVID-19, schools and vaccination efforts, plus how the federal government sells homes in flood zones.

With the global pandemic still in the spotlight, more than 200 leading health journals say climate change is an even more urgent threat.