White House Boosts Spending for Disaster, Extreme Weather Preparations May 25, 2021 The United States will double its spending to $1 billion on preparations for extreme weather and other natural disasters as...
How Everybody Ends Up Paying for Climate Crisis March 15, 2021 By David R. Baker and Mark Chediak Fallout from last month’s deadly deep freeze in Texas has quietly spread to people living hundreds of miles away. Minnesota...
Most of Texas Deep Freeze $90 Billion in Losses Avoidable, Modeler Says February 25, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan Texas’s deep freeze and power outages last week could cost as much as $90 billion in losses, and most of...
UK Insurers Could See Underwriting Losses After Storms Ciara, Dennis: Fitch February 21, 2020 Losses from storms Ciara and Dennis, which brought strong winds, torrential rain and widespread flooding to the UK, will increase...
Australia’s Central Bank Chief Warns of Economic, Financial Effects of Climate Change February 14, 2020 By Michael Heath Australia’s central bank chief Philip Lowe warned of wide-ranging economic and financial impacts from climate change, after his drought-stricken nation...
‘Rivers in the Sky’ Causing Billions in Flood Damage in U.S. February 12, 2020 By Brian K. Sullivan Climate change is spurring a new, deep dive into a complex, little-studied weather system blamed for creating billions of dollars...
Researchers Create Extreme Weather Early Warning System from ‘Obsolete’ Tool February 6, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson Rice University engineers have created a deep learning computer system that taught itself to accurately predict extreme weather events, like...
Japan Firms Have Done Little to Build Resilience Against Increasing Floods: Reuters Poll January 17, 2020 By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Izumi Nakagawa Japanese companies have contingency plans for the floods that increasingly drench this island nation, but most have done little to...
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...
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...