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In Florida, Skyrocketing Insurance Rates Test Resolve of Homeowners in Risky Areas

Research shows the soaring costs hint at widespread, unpriced risk as the global climate warms, with states like California, Florida and Louisiana hit hardest.

By Amy Green

 A neighborhood remains flooded after Hurricane Ian on Sept. 29, 2022 in Orlando, Fla. Credit: Gerardo Mora/Getty Images
The C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center in Bay Pines, Fla. Credit: Bay Pines VA Healthcare System

VA Medical Centers Vulnerable To Extreme Weather As Climate Warms

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers, The War Horse
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks to the media at Saint Anselm College on Friday, Jan. 19 in Goffstown N.H. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

DeSantis Called for ‘Energy Dominance’ During White House Run. His Plan Still is Relevant to Floridians, Who Face Intensifying Climate Impacts 

By Amy Green
An airboat is seen hovering over wetland in Everglades National Park, Florida. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

Judge Orders Jail Time For Prominent Everglades Scientist

By Amy Green
Cleanup efforts commenced in Cedar Key, Fla. on Thursday, August 31, 2023 a day after Hurricane Idalia passed through the area. Credit: Thomas Simonetti/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Hurricane-Weary Floridians Ask: What U.N. Climate Talks? 

By Amy Green
In Clewiston, Florida, a sugar cane field in the Everglades Agricultural Area. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

In the Florida Everglades, a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hotspot

By Amy Green
In Arcadia, Florida, Mac Martin looks at flooding along the railroad tracks at the Peace River in October 2022 in Arcadia, nearly a week after Hurricane Ian made landfall on the gulf coast. The Everglades to Gulf Conservation Area would include the watersheds of the Peace River and shore up protection for a region that suffered heavy damage from the hurricane. Credit: Sean Rayford/Getty Images.

Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Sprawling Conservation Area in Everglades Watershed

By Amy Green
A sugar cane field burning near Canal Point, Florida. Credit: Photo Courtesy of Friends of The Everglades

In Florida, Gen Z Activists Step Into the Fight Against Sugarcane Burning

By Michelle Mairena and Kyndall Hubbard, Youthcast Media Group
A manatee swims in a recovery pool at the David A. Straz Jr. Manatee Critical Care Center in ZooTampa at Lowry Park in Tampa, Florida, on January 19, 2021. Red tides caused by human use of fertilizers, loss of food in their natural habitat and collision with boats are the main causes of manatee deaths. Credit: Eva Marie Uzcategui/AFP via Getty Images.

Fish and Wildlife Service to Consider Restoring Manatee’s Endangered Status

By Amy Green
Chauncey Goss and his family spent weeks clearing hurricane debris from their property, as shown in this photograph taken shortly after Ian struck. Photo courtesy Chauncey Goss

For Sanibel, the Recovery from Hurricane Ian Will Be Years in the Making

By Amy Green
Parrot Heads crowd Mobile's streets to celebrate the life of Jimmy Buffett. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News.

Protecting Margaritaville: Jimmy Buffett, Bama and the Fight to Save the Manatee

By Lee Hedgepeth
In Tarpon Springs, Florida, Makatla Richter wades through flood waters after having to evacuate her home when the flood waters from Hurricane Idalia inundated it on Wednesday. Credit: Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

Florida Pummeled by Catastrophic Storm Surges and Life-Threatening Winds as Hurricane Idalia Makes Landfall

By Amy Green
Coral on the ocean bed in the Straits of Florida near Key Largo, Florida, in September 2021. Record warm ocean temperatures this summer are leading to what scientists fear may be a global bleaching event. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images.

For Florida’s Ailing Corals, No Relief From the Heat

By Amy Green
In Florida, parts of the Sanibel Causeway to Sanibel Island were washed away, along with sections of the bridge to the island, after Hurricane Ian passed through the area in September 2022. The hurricane brought high winds, storm surge and rain to the area causing severe damage. Credit:Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

NOAA Adjusts Hurricane Season Prediction to ‘Above-Normal’

By Amy Green
In 1958, staff members at a newly created agency called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention practice drawing training aids for teaching about vector-borne diseases, including malaria; in this case, one staff member draws the life cycle of a mosquito on a whiteboard. Image courtesy CDC. Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images.

Malaria Cases in Florida and Texas Raise Prospect of Greater Transmission in a Warmer Future

By Victoria St. Martin
Residents in North Port St. Joe, Florida, had long been concerned that an export facility for liquified natural gas (LNG), like this one in Sabine Pass, Texas, would be built on the Gulf Coast in their community on the Florida Panhandle. But now Nopetro Energy says it had decided "many months ago" not to build the facility there. Credit: Getty Images.

After Litigation and Local Outcry, Energy Company Says It Will Not Move Forward with LNG Plant in Florida Panhandle

By Amy Green
In June 2021. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to the media in the Everglades in Miami. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)In June 2021. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to the media in the Everglades in Miami. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

DeSantis Promised in 2018 That if Elected Governor, He Would Clean Up Florida’s Toxic Algae. The Algae Are Still Blooming

By Amy Green
Costal mangrove forests in Everglades National Park. Credit: Federico Acevedo/National Park Service

In the Everglades, a Clash Portrayed as ‘Science vs. Politics’ Pits a Leading Scientist Against His Former Employer

By Amy Green
The sun sets June 5, 2003 over the Florida Everglades. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Climate Change Forces a Rethinking of Mammoth Everglades Restoration Plan

By Amy Green

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