Best Read Climate Change Headlines
Headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page with the most time spent reading.
#1 Report Examines Hot Summer Days Linked to Climate Change in U.S. Cities
Sep 15 2023 // A new analysis shows which U.S. states, regions and cities felt the strongest influence of climate change during the summer – the hottest on record. The analysis from Climate Central, a group of scientists and...
#2 Zurich and KPMG Collaborate to Provide Climate Change Advisory Services
Sep 18 2023 // Zurich Resilience Solutions, the commercial risk advisory and services unit of Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich), and the professional services firm KPMG have formed a strategic collaboration to offer advisory services to...
#3 Climate Change Sends Most Indicators of Earth’s Health Into Danger Zone: Study
Sep 15 2023 // From dangerously warm temperatures to vast species extinctions, humans are living on a planet that is becoming inhospitable — with only three key health markers considered safe, according to a new scientific...
#4 Vermont’s Flooded Capital Ponders Rebuild With an Eye on Climate Change
Aug 7 2023 // A beloved bookstore in Vermont`s small capital city moved across the street to a new spot farther from the Winooski River after an ice jam sent river water into the store in 1992. A nearby office supply and gift store did...
#5 Typhoon That Hit China’s Ports Provides Wakeup Call for Climate Risk to Markets
Dec 12 2023 // As Typhoon Doksuri aimed toward mainland China, major southeast ports were forced to turn away dozens of vessels for days. The storm, supercharged by the warm July waters of the Pacific, delivered Beijing’s worst...
#6 Europe’s Most Important Trade Route Is at Risk From Climate Change
Aug 2 2023 // The Rhine River has been a reliable shipping lane for centuries, helping spawn industrial giants along its banks. But those days are coming to an end, and the scramble is made all the more urgent as Germany’s...
#7 Climate Change Can Cause U.S. Households ‘Significant Financial Strain’
Oct 5 2023 // Households can experience significant financial strain through pressures to income and expenses due to climate hazards, a report from the U.S. Department of Treasury shows. The report, The Impact of Climate Change on...
#8 How Aerial Imagery and AI are Helping Florida’s Insurers with Climate Change and Fraud
Aug 25 2023 // Residents of Southeastern states like Florida will be looking ahead to the heart of hurricane season with trepidation. With climate change bringing storms that are wetter, slower and more prone to intensifying rapidly,...
#9 Climate Change Means Californians Need Flood Insurance Now, Too
Sep 5 2023 // Californians know wildfires and earthquakes; hurricanes, not so much. So when Tropical Storm Hilary inundated Southern California in normally bone-dry August, it showed just how exposed homeowners are to a growing...
#10 Florida Commissioner, NAMIC Latest to Push Back on Federal Climate Change Data Call
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...
#11 Climate Change, Natural Disasters Sent Texas Homeowners Insurance Rates Skyrocketing in 2023
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...
#12 London Is Falling Down — Because of Climate Change
Jul 10 2023 // Britain’s increasingly extreme weather is shaking the very foundations of its centuries-old history. The nation has been experiencing prolonged periods of drought after wet winters since last year. That’s...
#13 Climate Change Drives Insurance Woes in Louisiana
Sep 11 2023 // A little over a year ago, Peter Gardner, a Louisiana developer, completed rehabbing an apartment building with 144 units and got a surprise so ugly it made him decide to move his business out of town. When the project...
#14 Climate’s ‘Catch-22’: Cutting Pollution Will Accelerate Global Warming
Nov 3 2023 // Air pollution, a global scourge that kills millions of people a year, is shielding us from the full force of the sun. Getting rid of it will accelerate climate change. That’s the unpalatable conclusion reached by...
#15 Insurers Heavily Exposed to Impact of Climate Change: Global Watchdog
Dec 6 2023 // Insurers are heavily exposed to the impact of climate change and also face risk from their alternative investments in reinsurance, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors said in a report on...
#16 Human-Induced Climate Change Plays ‘Overwhelming’ Role in July Heatwaves: Scientists
Jul 26 2023 // Human-induced climate change has played an “absolutely overwhelming” role in the extreme heatwaves that have swept across North America, Europe and China this month, according to an assessment by scientists...
#17 Earth Keeps Breaking Temperature Records, Underscoring Dangers of Global Warming
Jul 5 2023 // Global temperatures have smashed through records this week, underscoring the dangers of ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions generated from burning fossil fuels. The average worldwide temperature reached 17C (63F) on...
#18 EWG Report Finds Rapidly Rising Crop Payouts As Climate Change Hits U.S. Agriculture
Nov 15 2023 // Drought, heat, hail, rain and freezing temperatures – the five horsemen of crop insurance. A new report from EWG found that crop insurance payouts for the top five weather-related losses totaled over $118.7 billion...
#19 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...
#20 Report: Climate Change Boosts Risk of Extreme Wildfires 25%
Sep 5 2023 // A group of scientists used machine learning to quantify empirical relationships between temperature and the risk of extreme daily wildfire growth in California to show the influence of temperature on the risk – and they...
