All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 14 2015 // The world’s nations took the boldest steps yet to stem climate change, adopting an historic package of measures to limit fossil-fuel pollution and establish a mechanism to step up the reductions for decades.After two...
Dec 11 2015 // Many states across the country, particularly in the Southeast, are unprepared to face the risks posed from extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding and other extreme weather events, according to...
Dec 10 2015 // You’d think just about everyone who’s anyone attended the massive climate change summit in Paris ending this week.The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, drew an estimated 50,000 attendees to...
Dec 9 2015 // In Buffalo, it hasn’t snowed yet this year. A Duluth, Minnesota, newspaper reported that the temperature was 40 degrees above zero, not below. And in Miami, beachgoers are staying indoors during what’s already...
Dec 7 2015 // Many states across the country, particularly in the Southeast, are unprepared to face the risks posed from extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding and other extreme weather events, according to...
Dec 3 2015 // A judge has ruled against a 13-year-old girl who took North Carolina to court over climate change, but the eighth-grader says she’ll continue to fight for environmental protections.The News & Observer of Raleigh...
Nov 25 2015 // The planet is halfway to dangerous levels of global warming, with the average temperature for 2015 set to eclipse last year’s record, the United Nations said.This year’s average temperature will be...
Nov 25 2015 // You have to be either strange or bored to Google the phrase, “What do climate change and Thanksgiving have in common?”So I did. Believe it or not I got results, and found that there are at least two things...
Nov 24 2015 // Allianz SE is turning its back on coal as returns evaporate from energy generation that is harmful to the environment.Europe’s largest insurer plans to exit holdings in mining companies and utilities that derive more...
Nov 24 2015 // Leaders of 78 major companies urged governments on Monday to include the pricing of carbon emissions as part of policies to curb global warming, as world leaders prepare for a summit on climate change in Paris next...
Nov 24 2015 // Weather related disasters such as floods and heatwaves have occurred almost daily in the past decade, almost twice as often as two decades ago, with Asia being the hardest hit region, a U.N. report said on Monday.While the...
Nov 18 2015 // Texas is failing in assessing and preparing for environmental threats posed by climate change, according to a new report.A recently released study by Climate Central and ICF International, States At Risk: America’s...
Nov 13 2015 // The New York state attorney general’s office, which told Peabody Energy this week to give investors more details about how its sales would suffer from measures to curb global warming, is now mulling whether the...
Nov 12 2015 // There was a bit of hesitation from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist Stephanie C. Herring when she was asked questions about the increased risk and the implications of that risk for the insurance...
Nov 12 2015 // Equity portfolios may lose as much as 45 percent of their value due to shifting investor sentiment about climate change, according to a report by.Investors are becoming more aware of the short-term impact that the warming...
Oct 29 2015 // With fresh news out on the global economic cost of climate change, an enticing climate fiction contest and a sweet victory for this column, it would take until Christmas to individually cover it all in a bimonthly space.So...
Oct 28 2015 // Insurers are unprepared for the costs of climate change, the top United Nations climate diplomat said as world leaders make final preparations for a deal on global warming.The agreement, which the UN expects to seal in...
Oct 20 2015 // Climate change has added billions to the toll of hurricane strikes on the U.S., according to a study that challenges the prevailing scientific view that the rising cost is mainly because more buildings, towns and...
Oct 19 2015 // Climate negotiators are meeting today in Bonn to take a last crack at a draft plan aimed at nudging the world into a post-carbon era.The five-day gathering marks the final round of United Nations talks before envoys,...
Oct 16 2015 // Oil and gas industry bosses called for an “effective” agreement at the United Nations climate change summit in December, recognizing that current greenhouse gas emissions were inconsistent with the goal of...