Most Popular Climate Change Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Insured Losses From Natural Disasters Hit $140B as Climate Change ‘Shows Its Claws’
Jan 9 2025 // Insurers saw the third most expensive year for natural catastrophe losses in 2024 – reaching a total of US$140 billion – as climate change “is showing its claws,” according to Munich Re. Overall economic...
#2 US Home Insurance Still Priced Too Low for Climate Risk, Says Swiss Re Chair
Jul 1 2024 // This has been a year of insurance sticker shock in the US. But the man who provides insurance to insurers thinks maybe the shock still isn’t enough to steer people away from risk in a changing climate. “There...
#3 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...
#4 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...
#5 Actuary Group Forecasts Climate Change to Have Massive GDP Hit Without Policy Action
Jan 17 2025 // Here’s stark warning in a new report from a group of actuaries: the global economy could face a 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090. That is if immediate policy actions on risks posed by climate change are not...
#6 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”...
#7 Crop Insurance Won’t Let Some Farmers Adapt to Climate Change
Jul 29 2024 // In Kansas, where a prolonged drought has killed crops and eroded the soil, Gail Fuller’s farm is like an oasis. Sheep, cows and chickens graze freely on crops and vegetation in a paradisiacal mess. But if...
#8 ‘Impossible’ Weather Increasingly Blamed on Climate Change
Aug 2 2024 // Today may be the day when the impossible becomes possible—based on the number of headlines in recent days saying pretty much that. A slew of recent articles this week focus on studies and research reporting on how...
#9 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...
#10 Wildfires Are Growing Under Climate Change, and Their Smoke Threatens Farmworkers
Aug 16 2024 // As wildfires scorched swaths of land in the wine country of Sonoma County in 2020, sending ash flying and choking the air with smoke, Maria Salinas harvested grapes. Her saliva turned black from inhaling the toxins, until...
#11 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,...
#12 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,...
#13 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...
#14 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...
#15 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...
#16 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...
#17 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...
#18 What Policies Have Worked to Fight Climate Change? Answer: When the Polluter Pays.
Aug 27 2024 // To figure out what really works when nations try to fight climate change, researchers looked at 1,500 ways countries have tried to curb heat-trapping gases. Their answer: Not many have done the job. And success often means...
#19 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...
#20 Removing US Subsidies Curbed Building in Climate Risk Zones, Study Finds
Aug 6 2024 // The US Congress passed the Coastal Barrier Resources Act in 1982 to preserve relatively undeveloped waterfront areas as natural buffer zones. At least 1.4 million acres along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts were made...
