Update: Australia’s Firefighters Take Advantage of Cooler Weather to Help Quell Wildfires January 7, 2020 By Jason Gale Firefighters are taking advantage of cooler weather to quell southeastern Australia’s wildfires that have killed at least 24 people and...
Australia Sees No End to Unprecedented Wildfire Crisis January 6, 2020 By Jason Scott Exhausted firefighters welcomed cooler weather and patchy rain in blaze-ravaged southeastern Australia Monday after a calamitous few days, even as...
U.K. Endures Record High Temperatures During 2010s January 3, 2020 By Ramsey Al-Rikabi The U.K. endured more high-temperature records during the 2010s than any decade over the last century, according to the nation’s...
Update: The Escalating Costs of Australia’s Wildfire Disaster January 3, 2020 By Edward Johnson Australia is in the grip of deadly wildfires burning across the country, triggering an emotive debate about the impact of...
Australia Breaks Records for High Temperatures, Low Rainfall as Wildfires Keep Raging January 2, 2020 By Rob Verdonck As massive wildfires devastate swathes of Australia and supercharge the debate over the impact of climate change, government data show...
Climate Forecast for 2020s Is Warmer, Stormier and More Extreme: Opinion December 31, 2019 By Faye Flam, Bloomberg Opinion Over the last decade, scientists learned a great deal about the climate, much of it concerning the connection between global...
Australia’s Wildfire Crisis Intensifies as Locals, Tourists Seek Refuge on Beaches December 31, 2019 By Jason Scott Australia’s wildfire crisis intensified on Tuesday as coastal towns across the southeast caught ablaze, forcing thousands of stranded tourists and...
Venice Floods to Cost St. Mark’s Cathedral at Least $5.5 Million in Damage December 30, 2019 By Colleen Barry “Every stone is a treasure,” says the technical director of St. Mark’s Basilica’s vestry board, indicating the prized gold-leaf mosaics...
Financial Services Industry Must Act Faster on Climate Change: Bank of England Chief December 30, 2019 Financial services have been too slow to cut investment in fossil fuels, a delay that could lead to a sharp...
Venice Hotels Suffer Nearly $34M in Damages from November’s Floods December 23, 2019 Venice’s hoteliers association estimates that the city’s hotels suffered about 30 million euros ($34 million) worth of structural damage during...