Damaging Megadroughts Are Spreading Around the World January 17, 2025 By Kendra Pierre-Louis Severe drought conditions have helped fuel the Los Angeles wildfires. But a new study, released Thursday in the journal Nature...
World’s Rivers Faced Driest Year in 30 Years in 2023: UN Weather Agency October 10, 2024 By Jamey Keaten The U.N. weather agency is reporting that 2023 was the driest year in more than three decades for the world’s...
River Level at Amazon Rainforest Port Hits 122-Year Low Amid Drought October 7, 2024 By Bruno Kelly and Jake Spring The river port in the Amazon rainforest’s largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as...
Thousands of Fires Are Burning in the Drought-Wracked Amazon September 23, 2024 By Barbara Nascimento, Eric Roston and Simone Iglesias Much of Brazil is burning as tens of thousands of fires rage around the country, half of them in the...
World’s Workers Increasingly at Risk as Climate Changes: Int’l Labour Organization April 22, 2024 More than 70% of the global workforce is exposed to risks linked to climate change that cause hundreds of thousands...
Europeans Lack Insurance Protection as Wildfires and Drought Batter the Region August 3, 2023 By Natasha White Europeans are among the least insured against certain types of extreme weather and other natural disasters in the developed world,...
France’s Hottest Year Was Also 2nd Driest, Putting Climate Pressure on Government January 6, 2023 By Francois de Beaupuy France experienced its hottest and second-driest year on record in 2022, putting pressure on the government to step up its...
Assets of World’s Largest Companies at Growing Risk of Climate Impact: S&P September 19, 2022 By Juliette Portala Over 90% of the world’s largest companies will have at least one asset highly exposed to the physical impacts of...
Record High Temperatures Hit Nordic Region, Arctic Circle, Adding to Wildfire Dangers July 7, 2021 By Laura Millan and Lars Paulsson Record-high temperatures from Canada to Scandinavia and intense wildfires flaring up from California to Russia’s Far East are adding to...
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...