Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Study Warns Rising Seas Could Threaten 180 U.S. Cities by 2100
Feb 17 2011 // Rising seas spurred by climate change could threaten 180 U.S. coastal cities by 2100, a new study says, with Miami, New Orleans and Virginia Beach among those most severely affected. Previous studies have looked at where...
SPECIAL REPORT: Extreme Weather Batters Insurance Industry
Feb 9 2011 // In Chester County, South Carolina, off a dirt road in the middle of a field, insurance companies are literally unleashing a storm. To simulate hurricane-like conditions, an industry group has built a wind tunnel big enough...
Climate Skeptics Remain Unpersuaded by Extra-warm 2010
Feb 9 2011 // Remember 2010? U.S. and international scientists reckon it tied for the warmest year on record, supporting findings of unequivocal global climate change, but despite the evidence climate skeptics remain unconvinced. Those...
Climate Change Link to Insurance Losses Decades Away
Feb 7 2011 // Tropical cyclones are expected to cause more damage in the United States and Asia but it could be more than a century before insurers can point to climate change as a factor in losses from storms, scientists say. In a...
Climate Change Link to Insurance Losses Decades Away
Feb 7 2011 // Tropical cyclones are expected to cause more damage in the United States and Asia but it could be more than a century before insurers can point to climate change as a factor in losses from storms, scientists say. In a...
Australian Natural Disasters Spark Renewed Call Action on Climate Change
Feb 4 2011 // An architect of Australia’s stalled climate change policy has linked the nation’s recent natural disasters with global warming and called for a new political push to cut carbon emissions. Ross Garnaut,...
Marsh Forms Alliance with Maplecroft to Assist Clients with Political Risk
Feb 3 2011 // To assist clients in analyzing and monitoring crucial political, economic, social, and environmental risks, Marsh has formed an alliance with Maplecroft, the award-winning risk analysis and mapping firm As part of the...
Insurance Industry Worries about Growing Risks from Climate Change
Jan 19 2011 // Insurers are struggling to assess the risks from climate change, industry officials say, with the floods in Australia and Brazil highlighting the potential losses from greater extremes of weather. Scientists say a warmer...
Study Says Climate Change Link in Hurricane Losses Decades Away
Jan 13 2011 // Tropical cyclones are expected to cause more damage in the United States and Asia but it could be more than a century before insurers can point to climate change as a factor in losses from storms, scientists say. In a...
Canadian Climate Study Forecasts ‘Global Warming for Centuries’
Jan 10 2011 // Carbon dioxide already emitted into the atmosphere will keep contributing to global warming for centuries, eventually causing a huge Antarctic ice sheet to collapse and lift sea levels, Canadian scientists said...
An Analysis on Climate Talks: 18 Years, too Little Action?
Dec 14 2010 // “I was born in 1992. You have been negotiating all my life. You cannot tell us that you need more time,” Christina Ora of the Solomon Islands complained to delegates at U.N. talks on fixing global warming. Her...
Cancun Climate Talks End with Modest Steps, No Kyoto Deal
Dec 13 2010 // The world’s governments agreed Saturday to modest steps to combat climate change and to give more money to poor countries, but they put off until next year tough decisions on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The...
UN Secretary General Urges Climate Agreement ‘Short of Perfect Deal’
Dec 8 2010 // Saying the health of the planet is at stake, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged 190 nations meeting in Mexico on Tuesday to agree to steps to fight climate change that fall short of a perfect deal. “We cannot...
US Sees Progress in Easing Climate Change Row with China
Nov 30 2010 // Washington claimed progress Monday in easing rifts with Beijing on ways to fight global warming as U.N. climate talks got under way in Mexico with warnings about the rising costs of inaction. The United States and China,...
UN Agency Concludes Greenhouse Gases at Record Levels
Nov 24 2010 // Concentrations of the main greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached their highest level since pre-industrial times, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday. Concentrations of the gases...
Melting Siberian Permafrost Raises Tricky Climate Issue
Nov 23 2010 // The Russian scientist shuffles across the frozen lake, scuffing aside ankle-deep snow until he finds a cluster of bubbles trapped under the ice. With a cigarette lighter in one hand and a knife in the other, he lances the...
Decades of Data Show Troposphere Is Warming Too
Nov 16 2010 // Not only is Earth’s surface warming, but the troposphere — the lowest level of the atmosphere, where weather occurs — is heating up too, U.S. and British meteorologists reported Monday. In a review of...
Report Concludes Invasive Species, Climate Change, Form ‘Deadly Duo’
Oct 22 2010 // Climate change is set to drive the spread of invasive plant and animal species, threatening forests, fisheries and crops, in a double blow to nature and livelihoods, a World Bank-funded report said on Friday. The study by...
U.N. Urged to Freeze Climate Change ‘Geo-engineering’ Projects
Oct 21 2010 // The United Nations should impose a moratorium on “geo-engineering” projects such as artificial volcanoes and vast cloud-seeding schemes to fight climate change, green groups say, fearing they could harm nature...
