florida environment

Lawmakers warn that “these are forever chemicals that are within our environment now, and are going to create a major environmental disaster."

Farmworkers have long faced dangers from laboring outside in sweltering heat. As climate change raises temperatures, heat illness could come for far more people.

Striking a blow to the Legislature, a Tallahassee judge said state lawmakers failed to comply with a voter-approved constitutional amendment to buy and…

South Florida's water challenges range from sea-level rise to blue-green algae to hurricanes to waterway pollution . But entrepreneurs in the region's...

A University of Central Florida researcher has found several chemical extracts in sea sponges that might treat patients with a dormant form of…

Some environmental groups are speaking out against Gov. Rick Scott’s U.S. Senate bid.Scott slashed environmental programs after taking office such as the…

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Friday acknowledged there is "a lot of opposition" to President Donald Trump's plan to open most of the nation's…

An outbreak of red tide is killing fish off the southwest Florida coast.The Naples Daily News reports that fish kills have been reported off Lee County…

An ugly moment at a meeting of Miami's sea-level rise committee last week has prompted controversy over one of its members and a discussion over the...