Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Global Warming Can’t Be Ignored, Montana’s Top Court Says, Upholding Landmark Climate Case
Dec 20 2024 // Montana’s Supreme Court upheld a landmark climate ruling that said the state was violating residents’ constitutional right to a clean environment by permitting oil, gas and coal projects without regard for...
Senate Committee Reveals Climate Change Danger to Financial System
Dec 20 2024 // A Senate Budget Committee report shows how dangerous climate change is to the nation’s financial system as well as how bad it could be for homeowners seeking affordable insurance. A Senate Budget Committee Staff...
Climate Change ‘Supercharged’ Philippines’ Typhoon Season, Study Finds
Dec 16 2024 // A warming climate fueled the blitz of six powerful storms that hit the Philippines within a matter of weeks this year, according to a new study. The conditions that enabled the unusual string of tropical cyclones late in...
Maine Joins States Suing Big Oil to Recover Costs of Climate Change ‘Deception’
Nov 27 2024 // Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has filed suit in state court against Exxon, Shell, Chevron, BP, Sunoco, and the American Petroleum Institute for allegedly “deceiving Mainers for decades about the role of their...
What’s Behind New York Fires? Climate Change, Land Use and History
Nov 15 2024 // Wildfires that are raging across New York and New Jersey highlight a new threat to one of the world’s most affluent regions. Climate change is regarded by scientists as the pre-eminent factor driving long-term...
What Is the Latest Science on Climate Change?
Nov 14 2024 // This year’s U.N. climate summit – COP29 – is being held during yet another record-breaking year of higher global temperatures, adding pressure to negotiations aimed at curbing climate change. The last...
Global Warming Is Already on the Cusp of 1.5C, New Research Finds
Nov 12 2024 // A newly proposed method for calculating the global temperature suggests that countries may have already failed their main climate goal: to limit warming to below 1.5C. Scientists using the method say the world was 1.49C...
UCLA and NOAA: Climate Change Baked Western US Despite the Rainfall
Nov 8 2024 // Even with all the storms the Western U.S. received in the last two years, climate change is baking the region. That’s because higher temperatures are increasing evaporation enough to cause drought, according to a...
Asheville’s Dirty Water Warns of Climate Risk to Aging US Infrastructure
Oct 18 2024 // Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated swaths of the southeastern US by bringing too much water. Now, communities are struggling with the opposite problem: too little of it. The North Fork Water Treatment Plant supplies...
Climate Change Causes 379% Hike in Insured Damages in Canada Over 10 Years: Report
Oct 17 2024 // The annual average insurable losses in the last decade increased in Canada by a whopping 379%, when compared to the prior 30-year average, according to an analysis from MyChoice, a Toronto-based insurtech company. The...
Group of Scientists Say Climate Change Drove Helene Impacts
Oct 11 2024 // Climate change was a key driver of the devastating impacts of Hurricane Helene, a group of scientists said this week. Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 major hurricane west-southwest of Perry, Taylor County,...
Climate Change, Extreme Weather Bring Challenges to Chablis Wine Country in France
Sep 30 2024 // On a brisk late September morning in the heart of Chablis wine country, grape pickers haul large and heavy buckets over their shoulders, drenched in sweat as they climb the very steep slope of the Vau de Vey...
Climate Change and Rising US Insurance Rates
Sep 27 2024 // A new article directly blames climate change for rising U.S. insurance rates. While the article mulls the various and numerous reasons for rising rates, it calls out what the author sees as a “common thread”...
Why US Home Insurance Rates Are Rising Fast – Climate Change Plays a Big Role
Sep 26 2024 // Millions of Americans have been watching with growing alarm as their homeowners insurance premiums rise and their coverage shrinks. Nationwide, premiums rose 34% between 2017 and 2023, and they continued to rise in 2024...
Climate Change Made Europe’s Deadly Floods Worse and More Likely
Sep 25 2024 // Record rainfall leading to flooding that killed 24 people in Europe earlier in September was twice as likely due to manmade climate change, a study has found. The flooding took place across central Europe after Storm Boris...
‘Firehose’ Storm Hits North Carolina and Scientists See Climate Change
Sep 19 2024 // The Carolinas early this week braced for a storm that forecasters warned could bring heavy rain — as much as 6 to 8 inches in some spots. But one narrow band got a “firehose” that dumped as much as 20 inches...
Senator, Congresswoman Warn of Property Crisis as Climate Change Grips Florida
Sep 16 2024 // Florida and much of the country face a real estate crash unless government officials deal with climate change, members of Congress said at a roundtable discussion Saturday in St. Petersburg. U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse,...
Coastal Cities’ Growing Storm Vulnerability Fed by Climate Change and Growth
Sep 13 2024 // Warm water in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico can fuel powerful hurricanes, but how destructive a storm becomes isn’t just about the climate and weather – it also depends on the people and property in...
Summer 2024 Was World’s Hottest on Record: EU Climate Change Monitor
Sep 9 2024 // The world is emerging from its warmest northern hemisphere summer since records began, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service said on Friday, as global warming continues to intensify. The boreal...
Climate Change Intensified Typhoon Shanshan, Study Says
Aug 30 2024 // Typhoon Shanshan, which struck southern Japan this week with heavy rain and strong winds, was likely intensified by climate change, according to a study from Imperial College London. Researchers with the university teased...
