All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 28 2016 // When floodwaters poured into Holly Furlong’s Virginia Beach home in October, she ripped out electrical cords and rushed her four children upstairs. They spent the next two days without power, building blanket forts...
Nov 17 2016 // The voice of Zurich North America Chief Legal Officer Dennis Kerrigan swelled with pride as he described the carrier’s new headquarters in Schaumburg, Ill., and its importance to Zurich’s overall philosophy...
Nov 14 2016 // Exxon Mobil Corp. sued New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to stop his investigation into what the company knew about climate change.The oil giant on Thursday revised a lawsuit it filed in June against...
Nov 11 2016 // It took more than two decades for nations around the world to forge an agreement to save the planet from global warming. Within one year, Donald Trump could leave it in tatters.Trump, who has said climate change is a hoax...
Nov 10 2016 // The global fight against climate change will suffer a blow from Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election, threatening the industries working to clean up pollution from fossil fuel.The next president...
Nov 4 2016 // Climate change is a major concern for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), according to Zurich Insurance Group’s fourth annual global SME survey. Almost four-fifths (78 percent) of SMEs surveyed expected risks...
Nov 3 2016 // If Alexandra Zepp is typical of those in a millennial generation that’s beginning to account for a larger and more influential portion of the nation’s workforce, then what she has to say about her choice of...
Oct 25 2016 // Exxon Mobil Corp. is headed to a courtroom in New York for the first time to try to block the state’s demand for accounting documents about how climate change will affect its finances.New York Attorney General Eric...
Oct 20 2016 // Max Messervy took a decidedly positive tack when pried again and again to reveal any negative reaction to a report he puts together every so often.Messervy, the insurance program manager at sustainability leadership...
Oct 20 2016 // Insurers in the U.S. are increasingly willing to disclose their risk management practices related to climate change, and that in part may be attributable to last year’s global accord in Paris and shifting attitudes...
Oct 13 2016 // A new study says that human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the U.S. West over the last 30 years.Since 1984 heightened temperatures and resulting aridity have caused fires to spread...
Oct 12 2016 // Hurricanes could start flooding New York City’s coastline as often as every 20 years due to the effects of climate change on sea-level rise and hurricane activity, scientists said on Monday.Water could surge some 9...
Oct 6 2016 // Beer and coffee make nice bookends. One before the other can put you in the right frame of mind – I usually like coffee before beer, but whichever comes first all depends on what frame you want to be in.The top climate...
Oct 3 2016 // Experts warn the Carolinas will face droughts and deluges in coming years.Scientists, farmers and water managers met in Charlotte recently to explore ways to deal with coming dry weather and the sudden flooding that the...
Sep 29 2016 // College students will be working to gauge the impact of climate change along the South Carolina coast, one of the fastest-growing areas in the nation.The Sun News reports that Coastal Carolina University has received a...
Sep 22 2016 // Climate change will cause more earthquakes. It’s as simple as that.Deniers, start your engines. If that isn’t enough to enflame the smoldering embers of discourse within those ready to pounce on any and all...
Sep 19 2016 // Experts warn the Carolinas will face droughts and deluges in coming years.Scientists, farmers and water managers met in Charlotte last week to explore ways to deal with coming dry weather and the sudden flooding that the...
Sep 8 2016 // A global task force’s efforts to create new disclosure guidelines for the world’s financial industry – including insurers in the U.S. and abroad – are far from the first attempt to urge companies to be open...
Sep 7 2016 // BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, said all investors should factor climate change into their decision-making and doing so would not mean having to accept lower returns.Global moves to coordinate a...
Sep 6 2016 // For the last few years there’s been a common response from catastrophe modelers who advise the property/casualty industry when asked about including the effects of climate change in modeling.It went something like:...