All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 26 2017 // Few parts of the U.S. are as exposed to the threats from climate change as Ocean County, New Jersey.It was here in Seaside Heights that Hurricane Sandy flooded an oceanfront amusement park, leaving an inundated roller...
May 25 2017 // Climate change will drive up wind losses in the U.K. in coming years, according to a recent report from the Association of British Insurers, the Met Office, and Boston, Mass.-based catastrophe modeler AIR Worldwide.The...
May 24 2017 // President Donald Trump’s first budget request to Congress would cut or eliminate a range of programs designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as well those helping communities prepare for more intense flooding or...
May 24 2017 // Companies’ disclosure of risks to their business from climate change could become mandatory in a few years as investor pressure gathers pace, climate finance experts said on Tuesday.Investors have urged companies,...
May 11 2017 // Believe it or not, the planet could be much warmer in the next few years, according to new research.The research, published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, indicates that Earth could be 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit...
Apr 27 2017 // Migration to escape sea level rise could radically reshape the U.S. population landscape, and not just in coastal areas, according to a recent study.The author, Mathew Hauer, an applied demographer with the Carl Vinson...
Apr 26 2017 // Most of the world’s largest asset owners have gotten the message that climate change poses a risk to their portfolios and are pivoting toward greener investments.Funds worth $27 trillion that comprise 60 percent of...
Apr 20 2017 // On a predictably gorgeous South Florida afternoon, Coral Gables Mayor Jim Cason sat in his office overlooking the white-linen restaurants of this affluent seaside community and wondered when climate change would bring it...
Apr 13 2017 // Funding cuts proposed in a White House budget that has been on the table for months spook some experts who are concerned that the ability to do everything from model changes in the climate to forecast the day-to-day...
Apr 6 2017 // A coalition of 17 U.S. states filed a legal challenge on Wednesday against efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to roll back climate change regulations, deepening a political rift over his emerging...
Apr 3 2017 // Governments have created “worldwide momentum” to slow climate change despite threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to pull out of the 2015 Paris Agreement to slash greenhouse gas emissions, the U.N.’s...
Mar 30 2017 // Can you imagine an even hotter, drier Phoenix?Certainly not if you’ve been to the sun-drenched Arizona capital in the summer. Such an inconceivable scenario is being proposed by the LA Times.“Today, Phoenix is...
Mar 30 2017 // Exxon Mobil Corp.’s attempt to derail a multistate fraud probe into whether the company fully disclosed to investors the financial risks of climate change was dealt a major blow after a Texas judge moved the case...
Mar 28 2017 // President Donald Trump is moving aggressively to undo policies designed to keep the carbon-cutting promises the U.S. made alongside nearly 200 other countries in Paris, while stopping short of a decision to formally...
Mar 23 2017 // Reducing pollution and curbing overfishing won’t prevent the severe bleaching that is killing coral at catastrophic rates, according to a study of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. In the end, researchers say,...
Mar 22 2017 // Unusually warm weather in the Arctic is helping shift weather patterns this year from North America to the Middle East, after global warming shattered records in 2016, according to the World Meteorological...
Mar 16 2017 // You can blame it on the weather, or you can blame it on Trump.A record number of Americans are concerned about global warming, believe it is occurring and consider it a serious threat that is caused by human activity. A...
Mar 15 2017 // President Donald Trump is set to sign a sweeping directive to dramatically shrink the role climate change plays in decisions across the government, ranging from appliance standards to pipeline approvals, according to a...
Mar 2 2017 // More extreme weather has led to more extreme insurance claims in the U.S. over the past few years.In a review of more than 100,000 commercial catastrophe claims during a 10-year period, Mark A. Anderson, a claims executive...
Feb 16 2017 // Dam climate change.An opinion piece in the New York Times is offering a tie-in between global warming and the potential disaster unfolding at the Oroville Dam in Northern California. “After five years of...