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Florida's Energy, Climate Change, and Economic Security Act of 2008 set a goal of progressively improving recycling to reach a 75 percent rate by the year 2020. It directs public entities (schools, state and local public agencies) to report the amount they recycle annually to their counties.
The largest deposits of rock phosphate in the United States are found in Florida. [1] Most of this is in Bone Valley in central and west-central Florida. [2]Extended systems of underwater caves, sinkholes and springs are found throughout the state and supply most of the water used by residents.
As of March 2023, about two-thirds of the state believes in anthropogenic climate change, up from 55% in April 2020. [23] [24] However, the state remains politically divided: while Democrats have reached a general consensus on the issue, only half of Republicans agree and support teaching about climate change in schools. [25]
Sea floor patterns of Florida Bay are formed by currents and winds. However, since 1932, sea levels have been rising at a rate of 1 foot (0.30 m) per 100 years. [ 81 ] Though mangroves serve to build and stabilize the coastline, seas may be rising more rapidly than the trees are able to build.
If there is a magic way to stop climate change from wreaking havoc on Florida, reverse sea-level rise and lower the kind of scalding summer temperatures Miami saw last year, lawmakers may have ...
Is it, for example, time to rethink and craft state laws that would limit development so close to Florida's coasts and in areas that have consistently been prone to flooding?
The Floridan aquifer system, composed of the Upper and Lower Floridan aquifers, is a sequence of Paleogene carbonate rock which spans an area of about 100,000 square miles (260,000 km 2) in the southeastern United States.
But climate change is further complicating the survival of the threatened species. PHOTO: Florida scrub jays usually lay 3 to 4 eggs per nest in a breeding season. (FWC Fish and Wildlife Research ...