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In just five years, 930 million cubic meters of crevasses opened up in the Greenland ice sheet, equivalent to adding a crack the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza to the world’s second largest ice sheet every few days. The increased crevassing, especially prominent in fast-flowing portions of the ice sheet, could lead to a feedback loop that accelerates ice loss from the glacier, which ultimately raises sea levels. Greenland’s ice melt has added 0.4 inches to sea levels since 1992 and is estimated to add another foot by the end of the century.
View full story: https://news.ufl.edu/2025/02/greenland-crevasses/.
The Climate Ready America Southeast Navigator Network is assisting 72 communities in four states - Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina - that have recently received Community Disaster Resilience Zone (CDRZ) designations from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This program has established "Navigators" in each state to serve as trusted partners for CDRZ communities in their state and help them take advantage of funding sources, identify capacity building opportunities, and secure technical support necessary to develop strategies that lead to tangible resilience benefits in their community. In Florida, this program is working with all 32 CDRZ-designated communities.
*Job Announcement* The Florida Navigator team is currently seeking a full-time Statewide Navigator. There is also an opening for a regional Southeast Tribal Navigator. Learn more about these positions here. If interested in either of these opportunities, please send a cover letter and your resume/CV to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
When Hurricane Idalia hit the Big Bend region of Florida in 2023, Jeff Carney and his team were watching. A coalition of architects, planners, and landscape architects led by Carney worked closely with the tiny Gulf island of Cedar Key, which is particularly vulnerable to hurricanes, to prepare for this moment. The researchers had modeled for city officials how a major storm would flood the city’s core services.
Read full story: https://news.ufl.edu/2025/02/florida-resilience/.
The U.S. National Adaptation and Resilience Planning Strategy provides a critical blueprint to help our nation adapt to and prepare for the immediate, medium-, and long-term consequences, impacts and risks of a changing climate. The plan offers a roadmap for our nation, states and local communities to save lives and livelihoods, protect business investments and our economy, safeguard national security, and help secure a resilient future for our nation from the wide-range of climate risks.
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"Some of the islands that we have visited before and saw nesting, now we see nothing." Florida biologists are closely monitoring how alligators in the Everglades are responding to rising global temperatures, and they're concerned about what they've found so far. What's happening? Scientists from the University of Florida "Croc Docs" team are studying threatened American alligators to help assess the impacts of rising global temperatures in the Everglades. The Miami Herald reported on the team, explaining that alligators are a good target species for this type of research because they are sensitive to environmental changes.
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The Florida Climate Institute (FCI) is a multi-disciplinary network of national and international research and public organizations, scientists, and individuals concerned with achieving a better understanding of climate variability and change.