Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Climate Change Led to At Least 16,500 Heat Deaths in Europe This Summer
Sep 18 2025 // Climate change fueled scorching summer temperatures that killed an estimated 16,500 people in European cities this summer, pushing overall heat deaths to more than three times what might otherwise have occurred, according...
Hong Kong Boosts Flood Management as Climate Change Fuels Heavy Rains
Sep 12 2025 // Two years ago, extreme rainfall inundated Hong Kong, turning roads into raging rapids, submerging cars and flooding malls, making it one of the city’s most costly weather events ever. When another round of...
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...
Spain and Portugal Fires Were More Intense Because of Climate Change: Research
Sep 4 2025 // Climate change made the extreme weather conditions that fueled the wildfires in Portugal and Spain about 40 times more likely to happen and the blazes themselves 30% more intense than if the world hadn’t warmed,...
Climate Change Made Turkey, Greece Wildfires 10 Times More Likely: Scientists
Aug 29 2025 // The wildfires that raged across Greece, Turkey and Cyprus this summer were 22% more intense and 10 times more likely than they would have been in a world without climate change, according to scientists. The extremely hot,...
Climate Change Accelerates Melting of Italy’s Ventina Glacier
Aug 21 2025 // Italy’s Ventina glacier, one of the biggest in northern Lombardy, has melted so much due to climate change that geologists can no longer measure it the way they have for the past 130 years. After this year’s...
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...
Top UN Court Says Treaties Compel Wealthy Nations to Curb Global Warming
Jul 24 2025 // The United Nations’ highest court on Wednesday told wealthy countries they must comply with their international commitments to curb pollution or risk having to pay compensation to nations hard hit by climate...
Steady Rates, Steady Customers: Climate Risk Modeling for Long-Term Customer Retention
Jul 23 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Cotality. Most households can absorb a modest two-to-three-percent premium bump, yet even small increases strain lower-income policyholders in some regions. What reliably triggers...
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...
Scientists Transplant Corals to Help Save Miami’s Reefs From Climate Change
Jul 7 2025 // A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is working together to transplant crossbred coral fragments onto a reef off Miami’s coastline that was devastated by...
Hawaii Governor Signs Hotel Tax Bill to Help With Climate Change Through Mitigation
Jun 16 2025 // Hawaii’s governor signed legislation that boosts a tax imposed on hotel room and vacation rental stays in order to raise money to address eroding shorelines, wildfires and other consequences of climate change. The...
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...
Hawaii Governor Signs Hotel Tax Bill to Help With Climate Change Through Mitigation
May 29 2025 // Hawaii’s governor signed legislation this week that boosts a tax imposed on hotel room and vacation rental stays in order to raise money to address eroding shorelines, wildfires and other consequences of climate...
Global Banking Regulators Agree to Prioritize Climate Risk Work
May 13 2025 // Global banking regulators on Monday agreed to intensify efforts to better understand the financial risks posed by climate change amid pushback from the United States. The oversight body of the world’s forum for...
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...
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,...
Hawaii Plans to Increase Hotel Tax to Help It With Climate Change Mitigation
May 2 2025 // In a first-of-its kind move, Hawaii lawmakers are ready to hike a tax imposed on travelers staying in hotels, vacation rentals and other short-term accommodations and earmark the new money for programs to cope with a...
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...
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...
