‘Sunny Day’ Floods Will Increasingly Inundate U.S. Coasts as Sea Levels Rise: NOAA July 15, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan Record high-tide flooding washed over U.S. coasts in the past year, and rising sea levels are expected to send the...
Grounded Airplanes at Risk from Asia’s Tropical Storm Season, Industry Experts Warn June 3, 2020 By Jamie Freed and Ben Blanchard Airlines, airports and insurers across Asia are bracing for the prospect of unusually high damage as the region’s tropical storm...
Washington D.C. Plans to Confront Climate Change by Retrofitting Flood-Prone Buildings April 29, 2019 By Christopher Flavelle Washington is announcing a goal of retrofitting or removing all of its flood-prone buildings by 2050, the first major U.S....
NYC Mayor Proposes $10B Plan to Flood-Proof Manhattan as Climate Risk Grows March 15, 2019 By Henry Goldman and Christopher Flavelle New York Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a $10 billion plan to push out the lower Manhattan coastline as much...
Airport Operators Take Action Against Rising Seas, Powerful Storms as Climate Changes October 1, 2018 By Jamie Freed Global airport operators, faced with rising sea levels and more powerful storms as the climate changes, are starting to invest...
Oil Companies Ask Judge to Kill NYC’s Global Warming Lawsuit May 9, 2018 By Bob Van Voris Five of the world’s biggest oil companies asked a judge to throw out New York City’s lawsuit seeking to hold...
New York Sues Fossil Fuel Majors, Plans Divestment from Pension Funds January 11, 2018 By Laila Kearney New York City announced on Wednesday that it filed a multibillion dollar lawsuit against five top oil companies, citing their...
Island Nations, Such as Bahamas & Jamaica, at High Climate Change Risk: Moody’s December 5, 2017 By Colin Simpson The Bahamas, Fiji, Jamaica and the Maldives have been identified as among the most vulnerable small island sovereigns in a...
Coastal Texans Concerned About Rising Sea Levels Amid Hurricane Threats May 31, 2017 By Harvey Rice Lalo Ojeda has lived with hurricanes all his life. The Houston Chronicle reports he was 14 when Hurricane Carla inundated...
Insurer & Investor Group Urges G20 to Scrap Fossil Fuel Subsidies by 2020 February 15, 2017 Investors and insurers with more than $2.8 trillion in assets under management on Wednesday called on the Group of 20...