Most Popular Climate Change Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Trump Issues Order to Block State Climate Change Policies
Apr 10 2025 // U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday that aims to block the enforcement of state laws passed to reduce the use of fossil fuels and combat climate change. The move is the latest in a string of...
#2 Insured Losses From US Hurricanes Could Rise by 50% With Global Warming
Jul 15 2025 // Insured losses from U.S. hurricanes could rise by nearly 50% under a 2°C (3.6°F) global warming scenario, according to MS Amlin, the Lloyd’s global re/insurer. A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of...
#3 22 States Sue Over New York Fund to Pay for Climate Change Damage
Feb 11 2025 // Twenty-two states sued New York on Thursday, contending that a new law forcing a small group of major energy producers to pay $75 billion into a fund to cover climate change damage is unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed...
#4 Zillow Deleting Home Climate Risk Scores Reveals Limits of Flood, Fire Data
Dec 10 2025 // When Zillow Group Inc. removed climate risk scores from its home listings last month, following a complaint from the real estate industry, many observers took to the press and social media to warn that disappearing the...
#5 European Homeowners Battle Insurers Over $2.9 Trillion Climate Risk
Jun 13 2025 // When Bernard Weisse first noticed a tiny crack in the outer wall of his house on the outskirts of Paris, he dismissed it as little more than a nuisance. But in the four years since, a spiderweb of fissures has spread from...
#6 Zurich Offers ‘Roadmap’ to Prep Businesses, Governments for Climate Change
May 2 2025 // A new paper from Zurich calls out an “alarmingly bleak” outlook thanks to climate change driving the frequency and intensity of extreme weather and increasing the likelihood of natural catastrophes. However,...
#7 US GDP Could Take a Big Hit From Climate Change by 2100, Study Shows
Feb 28 2025 // A working paper from the U.S. Congressional Budget Office recently estimated the distribution of changes in gross domestic product in the year 2100 resulting from changes in temperature. And it could be bad, really...
#8 France Warns of Soaring Insurance Costs From Climate Change
Mar 10 2025 // French households, businesses and local authorities will face soaring costs for insurance if the country fails to adapt to a changing climate, the government said Monday. The cost of climate disasters may double in the 30...
#9 Former California Insurance Commissioner Carries on Climate Change Crusade
Sep 9 2025 // When Dave Jones first started talking about climate change and what insurers should be doing about it some 15 years ago, the response could be thought of as something akin to a collective shrug. There wasn’t much to...
#10 Renewables Battling Climate Change Now Need to Insure Against It
Aug 20 2025 // Solar and wind energy companies are betting on a novel form of insurance to protect their assets against wild and volatile weather — the very type of climate risk they were set up to fight. Renewable power projects can...
#11 Hurricane Melissa Shows How Quickly Climate Change Is Outstripping Defenses
Nov 12 2025 // Jamaica has invested tens of millions of dollars in bolstering coastal defenses by planting mangroves, building seawalls and strengthening urban infrastructure. It wasn’t close to enough to withstand Hurricane...
#12 These Roads Aren’t Built for Wilder Weather Driven by Climate Change
Feb 13 2025 // California’s Highway One, stretching more than 650 miles along the Pacific Coast, is one of America’s most popular roadways because of its breathtaking views. Yet, since 2023, large chunks of it have been...
#13 Deadly Floods’ $20 Billion Toll Shows Asia’s Rising Climate Risk
Dec 4 2025 // Devastating floods have killed more than 1,300 people and caused at least $20 billion in losses since late last month across parts of South and Southeast Asia, underscoring the increasing risks from climate change and...
#14 Deadly April Rainfall in South, Midwest Intensified by Climate Change, Scientists Say
May 9 2025 // Human-caused climate change intensified deadly rainfall in Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and other states in early April and made those storms more likely to occur, according to an analysis released Thursday by the World...
#15 Global Warming Could Be Making It Less Windy in Europe
Feb 18 2025 // Global warming is driving down wind speeds during European summers, putting additional stress on the region’s energy systems as soaring temperatures boost cooling demand, new research shows. That phenomenon — known...
#16 AI, Cyber Insurance and Climate Change Are Key Insurance Themes for 2026: GlobalData
Dec 22 2025 // Artificial intelligence (AI), cyber insurance, and climate change/natural catastrophes are the three themes that will have the biggest impact on the insurance market in 2026, according to an annual prediction from...
#17 Europe to Launch Service to Measure Role of Climate Change in Extreme Weather
Nov 21 2025 // The EU is launching a service to measure the role climate change is playing in extreme weather events like heatwaves and extreme rain, and experts say this could help governments set climate policy, improve financial risk...
#18 World Must Prepare to Fight Climate Change Without US, UK Says
Mar 7 2025 // The world needs to prepare to fight global warming without the help of the US as the Trump administration pulls billions of dollars pledged to initiatives funding the green transition, the UK’s climate envoy said....
#19 Report: Climate Change, Weather Impacts on Household Budgets Up to $900 Yearly
Dec 5 2025 // A working paper from three well-known economists shows the impacts of global warming and particularly extreme weather on the budgets of American households is up to $900 per year. The paper was authored by former Treasury...
#20 Climate Change Triggers More Extreme Weather – From Deluges to Drought
Mar 27 2025 // Around the globe, rising temperatures stoked by climate change are increasing the odds of both severe drought and heavier precipitation that wreak havoc on people and the environment. Rainfall can disappear for years only...
