All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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:...
Aug 25 2016 // California lawmakers voted to extend the state’s landmark climate change law — the most aggressive in the nation — by another 10 years, resisting fierce opposition from oil companies and other business interests...
Aug 25 2016 // It caught my eye when Monsanto Co. subsidiary Climate Corp. announced last week it was creating the “Industry’s First In-Field Sensor Network” and “the first Centralized Platform” digital...
Aug 12 2016 // A federal appeals court in Chicago gave a thumbs-up this week to an obscure regulatory practice that helps the U.S. government account for projected costs of climate change. The decision comes less than a week after the...
Aug 11 2016 // When the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Rio highlighted climate change, it wasn’t hard to imagine the buzz – positive and negative – that would be generated.The show included references to rising sea levels,...
Aug 10 2016 // Rising global temperatures are clearly linked to increasing waterborne food poisoning, particularly from eating raw oysters, along with other nasty infections, a new study shows.About a dozen species of vibrio bacteria...
Jul 28 2016 // For the last few years you got 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: “The...
Jul 28 2016 // The New York and Massachusetts attorneys general are refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas seeking records about their investigations into whether Exxon Mobil misled investors about man-made climate change.In an...
Jul 15 2016 // Escalating a political fight over global warming, a Republican House chairman issued subpoenas this week to two Democratic state attorneys general, seeking records about their investigation into whether Exxon Mobil misled...
Jul 14 2016 // Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part column. A follow up column will focus on how catastrophe modelers are being asked to create products that take into account potential climate change impacts.A report out...
Jul 13 2016 // California Gov. Jerry Brown has launched a campaign to extend some of the most ambitious climate-change programs in the country and ensure his environmental legacy when he leaves office in two years.The centerpiece of the...
Jul 13 2016 // The world’s insurers, banks and pension funds are “inherently susceptible” to threats from climate change and must make adjustments, from shifting investment toward environmentally friendly industries to...
Jul 11 2016 // The shoe may eventually be placed on the other foot for the United States.This nation has a long-standing tradition of innovating products and ideas – particularly insurance products – and then exporting them to other...
Jun 30 2016 // What does the Brexit portend for all those collaborative efforts undertaken by the European Union to battle climate change?It’s a question a number of people were pondering – in Europe and in the U.S. – after...