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It’s a new era of design and construction for the waterfront barriers as the old ways crumble.

Retrofit, rebuild, research, revise: Miami’s climate change strategy, explained

‘This is essential for our future,’ said Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.

It's become common to see new homes in South Florida constructed on land raised by trucked-in gravel. But neighbors wonder — especially after the latest “rain bomb” to hit Fort Lauderdale — if the standards to raise new construction make flooding worse for surrounding older homes.

Complaints of new development worsening flooding in surrounding areas are common across South Florida, and floodplain experts say it underlines a problem with perhaps the leading strategy for coping with flooding driven by climate change.

To enhance the countys natural environment and develop more options to rid Biscayne Bay of contamination and pollution, last month, the US Army Corps of Engineers agreed to extend the

Florida is set to commit hundreds of millions to adapt to the impacts of climate change — with the promise of much more money on the way.

Climate change threatens to dramatically alter the coastal landscape of Miami-Dade in coming decades — one way or another.It’s not just rising seas and…

Many local environmentalists and scientists are reacting to the United Nations report released Monday saying that climate change is accelerating. “We know...

Symposium focuses on the rise of resiliency efforts By Michael R. Malone By Michael R. Malone 04-08-2021 More than 60 environmental researchers, practitioners, and leaders from the Caribbean and South Florida offered presentations highlighting the “human center dimension” of climate change and resiliency. The “Sub-Tropical and Tropical Coastal Resilience: Social, Economic, and Physical Adaptations in South Florida and the Caribbean” symposium promoted an interdisciplinary approa...