3 innovative ways to help countries hit by climate disasters, beyond a loss and damage fund
These days, it’s hard to escape news stories discussing how climate change is contributing to extreme weather disasters, including the […]
Five ways that climate change threatens human health
As the UN’s climate summit, Cop29, gets underway in Azerbaijan this week, the effect of climate change on human health
Americans face an insurability crisis as climate change worsens disasters – a look at how insurance companies set rates and coverage
Home insurance rates are rising in the United States, not only in Florida, which saw tens of billions of dollars
When an atmospheric river meets a bomb cyclone, it’s like a fire hose flailing out of control along the West Coast
The West Coast’s rainy season has arrived in force, with an atmospheric river joining a bomb cyclone off the Pacific
A man scouring Google Earth found a mysterious scar in the Australian outback – and now scientists know what caused it
Earlier this year, a caver was poring over satellite images of the Nullarbor Plain when he came across something unexpected:
China’s influence grows at COP29 climate talks as US leadership fades
The 2024 U.N. climate talks ended in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Nov. 24 after two weeks of arguments, agreements and side
15% of global population lives within a few miles of a coast − and the number is growing rapidly
Coastal populations are expanding quickly around the world. The rise is evident in burgeoning waterfront cities and in the increasing
Australia’s latest brush with extreme heat shows just how good weather forecasting really is
As a dome of heat developed over north and central Australia last weekend, parts of the country braced themselves for
99% of US streams are off the radar amid rising flash flood risks – we saw the harm in 2024
Flooding is one of the deadliest and costliest natural disasters in the U.S., causing billions of dollars in damage each
More than 1,300 Hajj pilgrims died this year when humidity and heat pushed past survivable limits. It’s just the start
Every year, hundreds of thousands of Muslims undertake the Hajj –the sacred pilgrimage to Mecca. In 2024, the pilgrimage took