The most viewed headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page over the last year.
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...
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...
Jan 9 2024 // A new Chubb report has found that 76% of wealthy Americans and Canadians believe exposure to extreme weather due to climate change is among the biggest threats to their homes.Sixty-three percent of respondents to the...
Apr 22 2024 // A subsidiary of Arbol Inc., a firm that has specialized in climate risks for businesses, including parametric insurance products, has acquired Sarasota, Florida-based Centauri Insurance from Applied Underwriters.The...
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...
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...
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”...
Dec 6 2023 // Florida’s insurance commissioner and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies are pushing back against a plan by the U.S. Treasury to collect data from insurers on risks from climate change, calling it...
Oct 18 2024 // Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated swaths of the southeastern US by bringing too much water. Now, communities are struggling with the opposite problem: too little of it.The North Fork Water Treatment Plant supplies...
Mar 20 2024 // All the major indicators of climate change smashed historic records last year, with some rising so steeply that the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization warned they were “off the charts.”The...
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...
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 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,...
Apr 18 2024 // Climate change will inflict losses to the global economy worth an annual $38 trillion by 2049, as extreme weather ravages agricultural yields, harms labor productivity and destroys infrastructure, according to researchers...
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...
Feb 9 2024 // Global warming exceeded temperatures of 1.5 degrees C over a 12-month period for the first time in record keeping.The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service released its findings in its Global Climate...
Dec 1 2023 // Insurance companies across Texas have dramatically increased home insurance rates this year, state filings show, as climate change spooks executives and inflation pushes up costs to rebuild after natural disasters.Texas is...
Feb 22 2024 // The City of Chicago is suing six oil and gas corporations and their largest trade association for deceiving Chicago consumers about the climate change dangers associated with their products, mayor Brandon Johnson announced...
Jan 14 2024 // A judge has rejected several claims lodged by Delaware’s attorney general in a lawsuit alleging that the fossil fuel industry has downplayed the risks of climate change. Tuesday’s ruling significantly narrows...
Nov 15 2024 // Wildfires that are raging across New York and New Jersey highlight a new threat to one of the world’s most affluent regions.Climate change is regarded by scientists as the pre-eminent factor driving long-term changes...