All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 17 2024 // The annual average insurable losses in the last decade increased in Canada by a whopping 379%, when compared to the prior 30-year average, according to an analysis from MyChoice, a Toronto-based insurtech company.The...
Oct 11 2024 // Climate change was a key driver of the devastating impacts of Hurricane Helene, a group of scientists said this week.Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 major hurricane west-southwest of Perry, Taylor County,...
Sep 30 2024 // On a brisk late September morning in the heart of Chablis wine country, grape pickers haul large and heavy buckets over their shoulders, drenched in sweat as they climb the very steep slope of the Vau de Vey...
Sep 27 2024 // A new article directly blames climate change for rising U.S. insurance rates.While the article mulls the various and numerous reasons for rising rates, it calls out what the author sees as a “common thread”...
Sep 26 2024 // Millions of Americans have been watching with growing alarm as their homeowners insurance premiums rise and their coverage shrinks. Nationwide, premiums rose 34% between 2017 and 2023, and they continued to rise in 2024...
Sep 25 2024 // Record rainfall leading to flooding that killed 24 people in Europe earlier in September was twice as likely due to manmade climate change, a study has found.The flooding took place across central Europe after Storm Boris...
Sep 19 2024 // The Carolinas early this week braced for a storm that forecasters warned could bring heavy rain — as much as 6 to 8 inches in some spots. But one narrow band got a “firehose” that dumped as much as 20 inches...
Sep 16 2024 // Florida and much of the country face a real estate crash unless government officials deal with climate change, members of Congress said at a roundtable discussion Saturday in St. Petersburg.U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse,...
Sep 13 2024 // Warm water in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico can fuel powerful hurricanes, but how destructive a storm becomes isn’t just about the climate and weather – it also depends on the people and property in...
Sep 9 2024 // The world is emerging from its warmest northern hemisphere summer since records began, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service said on Friday, as global warming continues to intensify.The boreal summer...
Aug 30 2024 // Typhoon Shanshan, which struck southern Japan this week with heavy rain and strong winds, was likely intensified by climate change, according to a study from Imperial College London.Researchers with the university teased...
Aug 27 2024 // To figure out what really works when nations try to fight climate change, researchers looked at 1,500 ways countries have tried to curb heat-trapping gases. Their answer: Not many have done the job. And success often means...
Aug 16 2024 // As wildfires scorched swaths of land in the wine country of Sonoma County in 2020, sending ash flying and choking the air with smoke, Maria Salinas harvested grapes.Her saliva turned black from inhaling the toxins, until...
Aug 14 2024 // Liberty Mutual Reinsurance (LM Re), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has partnered with insurtech firm Sprout Inc. and the Kenyan insurer Britam to launch a parametric insurance product, which aims to protect Kenyan...
Aug 6 2024 // The US Congress passed the Coastal Barrier Resources Act in 1982 to preserve relatively undeveloped waterfront areas as natural buffer zones. At least 1.4 million acres along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts were made...
Aug 2 2024 // Today may be the day when the impossible becomes possible—based on the number of headlines in recent days saying pretty much that.A slew of recent articles this week focus on studies and research reporting on how...
Jul 29 2024 // In Kansas, where a prolonged drought has killed crops and eroded the soil, Gail Fuller’s farm is like an oasis. Sheep, cows and chickens graze freely on crops and vegetation in a paradisiacal mess.But if...
Jul 18 2024 // On his four and a half acres of land in central Pakistan, Izhar ul-Haq approaches farming as a science. He knows the precise acidity of the soil and the exact amount of brackish groundwater his crops can tolerate if mixed...
Jul 1 2024 // This has been a year of insurance sticker shock in the US. But the man who provides insurance to insurers thinks maybe the shock still isn’t enough to steer people away from risk in a changing climate.“There is...
Jun 24 2024 // Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America, a new flash study...