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A destroyed building sits among debris after Hurricane Ian passed through the area on October 08, 2022 in Sanibel, Florida. Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here.In the three months since Hurricane Ian struck Florida, the state’s fragile property insurance market has been teetering on the brink of collapse. The historic storm caused over $50 billion in damage, more than any disaster in U.S. history other than Hurricane Katrina. It also…

| The Florida comic book chain Coliseum Of Comics has acquired the Florida chain of Friendly Local Game Store or FLGS. The combined company will sadly however not be known as COCFLGS which sounds like the kind of thing police in Florida arrest comic book stores for selling. The three stores joining the new chain are: Friendly Local Game Store, 5517 Roosevelt Blvd, Jacksonville, FL 32244 Gamesville Tabletop,  4401 NW 25th Pl. g, Gainesville, FL 32606 Friendly Local Game Store, formerly Sci-Fi City, 6136 E Colonial Dr,…

In this aerial view, vehicles make their way through a flooded area after Hurricane Ian passed through on September 29, 2022 in Fort Myers, Florida. Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)Hurricane Ian has left much of southwest Florida a disaster zone, and the storm is on track to mess with one of the most volatile insurance markets in the country.Ian made landfall near Florida’s Punta Gorda on Wednesday afternoon as a category 4 hurricane, bringing huge storm surges and high winds. It has since degraded to a tropical storm,…

Hurricane Ian will be a serious test of Florida’s unusual home-insurance market, where dozens of small to midsize carriers and a state-run insurer of last resort play a leading role in paying claims.These relatively obscure private-sector insurers and the rapidly growing state-run carrier are backed up by reinsurance companies. There is enough coverage available to handle claims, even if Hurricane Ian lands in Tampa, officials said. But insurers could be hurt by a wave of lawsuits driving up their costs, or by another…

Hurricane Ian is barreling toward the Florida coast and is expected to reach Category 3 strength by Monday night, with winds reaching upward of 129 mph. Mandatory evacuations have already begun. But wind and rain alone aren’t what’s making Ian a threat; Florida’s population has been growing in recent years, with some of the largest increases in vulnerable coastal cities like Tampa and Miami. Forecasters are getting better at predicting hurricanes. However, these storms are capturing more people and property in their…

U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the “Stop Woke Act” championed by Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis. The law likely runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of free speech, the judge said. Y-Vonne Hutchinson, chief executive of California-based consulting and strategy firm ReadySet, said she welcomed the decision.…

A researcher releases sea turtle hatchlings into the Atlantic Ocean in a joint effort between the United States Coast Guard and the Gumbo-Limbo Nature Center. Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)The climate crisis has created a huge sex imbalance for Florida’s sea turtles. More frequent and hotter heat waves baking the sand on the state’s beaches means that seemingly every new hatchling is female, turtle researchers told Reuters. Female sea turtles bury their eggs in the sand along the shore,where the eggs nest for about…

Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images)2022 may be remembered as a turning point for social media regulation, or maybe more aptly, failed social media regulation. Though Texas and Florida managed to dominate headlines recently for their constitutionally questionable deplatforming laws, they’re far from the only states trying to get creative with managing content on social media platforms.A recent Politico analysis found 34 states, many conservative-leaning but not all, have proposed bills or passed laws vying to influence…

Auckland, New Zealand-based Invisible Urban Charging (IUC), which offers “end-to-end charging as a service,” is going to roll out more than 6,000 EV chargers in Florida, mostly at commercial sites and parking lots. Once the EV chargers for all models are fully deployed, IUC will have doubled the number of EV chargers in Florida, and IUC will become the largest EV charger operator in the state. Stuff in New Zealand explains: IUC will sign contracts with real estate owners, developers, parking lot operators and…

FAU's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in Fort Pierce, Florida. Credit: Florida Atlantic University The continental shelf is the submerged extension of a continent and as such it is at the crossroad of terrestrial, oceanic and atmospheric influences. This confluence is the lead driver of the high biological productivity that often characterizes the continental shelf regions. Their productivity is not only critical to the…