Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Islamic Insurance Helps Cover Muslim Farmers Battling Climate Change
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...
US Home Insurance Still Priced Too Low for Climate Risk, Says Swiss Re Chair
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...
Climate Change Amplifies Deadly Heat Wave Sweeping Across Southwestern US, Mexico
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...
Climate Change Blamed on Deadly Heat Wave in Mexico, Southwest US
Jun 21 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...
Hawaii Agrees to ‘Groundbreaking’ Settlement of Youth Climate Change Case
Jun 21 2024 // Hawaii on Thursday agreed to take action to decarbonize its transportation system by 2045 to settle a lawsuit by 13 young people alleging the U.S. state was violating their rights under its constitution with infrastructure...
Maryland Governor Requires All State Agencies to Submit Climate Change Plans
Jun 7 2024 // State agencies in Maryland will be required to submit a plan to help address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, under an executive order signed by Gov. Wes Moore on Tuesday. The plan calls for all state...
Climate Change Made Deadly Brazil Floods Twice As Likely, Study Finds
Jun 5 2024 // Greenhouse gases produced by human activity made the recent deadly flooding in Brazil twice as likely as it would have been in the preindustrial era, according to a rapid analysis of the event by World Weather Attribution...
Vermont Is 1st State With Law Requiring Oil Companies Pay for Climate Change Damage
Jun 3 2024 // Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme...
Climate Change Made Recent UK and Ireland Storms Much Worse
May 22 2024 // The heavy downpours seen in the UK and Ireland last fall and winter were about 20% worse because of climate change, a new scientific report found. The region saw as many as 14 severe storms between October and March,...
DeSantis, Amid Criticism, Signs Bill Making Climate Change Less of a Priority
May 17 2024 // TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Climate change will be a lesser priority in Florida and largely disappear from state statutes under legislation signed Wednesday by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that also bans power-generating wind...
Appeals Court Rejects Climate Change Suit by Young Oregon Activists
May 6 2024 // A federal appeals court panel last week rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists who argued that the U.S. government’s role in climate change violated their constitutional...
Climate Change Concern About to Removed from Florida Energy Law
May 2 2024 // TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida, perhaps the most vulnerable state to sea-level rise and extreme weather, is on the verge of repealing what’s left of a 16-year-old law that lists climate change as a priority when...
Poll: Climate Change Concerns Grow, but Few Believe Biden’s Climate Law Will Help
Apr 23 2024 // A poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows 45% of U.S. adults say they have become more concerned about climate change over the past year (six-in-10 Democrats and one-quarter of...
Arbol Unit Buys Centauri Insurance, Forms Lilypad to Broaden Climate Risk Coverage
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...
Climate Change to Cause $38 Trillion a Year in Damages by 2049
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...
Greece Invests Over €2 Billion to Fight Climate Change Effects
Apr 8 2024 // Greece is investing €2.1 billion ($2.27 billion) to protect the nation from natural disasters caused by climate change as wildfires are already breaking out ahead of fire season, which normally starts in May. The Aegis...
States Eye Requiring Fossil Fuel Companies to Pay for Some Climate Change Damage
Apr 3 2024 // The Vermont Legislature is advancing legislation requiring big fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme...
Shell Says Landmark Court Ruling Obstructs Fight Against Climate Change
Apr 2 2024 // Shell on Tuesday told a Dutch court a 2021 order that it should drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions lacks a legal basis and risks obstructing the fight against climate change. In a landmark ruling that shocked the...
Pennsylvania County Suing Oil Industry Over Climate Change
Apr 2 2024 // A large suburban Philadelphia county has joined dozens of other local governments around the country in suing the oil industry, asserting that major oil producers systematically deceived the public about their role in...
10 Years After Washington Landslide, Climate Change Is Increasing The Danger
Mar 25 2024 // After the mountainside collapsed, obliterating a neighborhood and 43 lives in the worst landslide disaster in U.S. history in Washington, Jessica Pzsonka made a promise -– to herself, to her bereft parents and to her...
