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...
Extreme Weather in Greece Brought $1.1 Billion in Crop Damages Since 2011 November 25, 2019 By Antonis Galanopoulos and Paul Tugwell In the hills of northern Greece, peach farmer Makis Antoniadis is sweating in unseasonably warm November weather as he toils...
Nobody Seems to Know Why Hail Storm Losses Suddenly Began Rising in 2008 June 17, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan In 2008, the year the stock market crashed and Barack Obama won the presidency, the U.S. was hit with a...
Insurers Pitch Quick-Paying Parametric Disaster Insurance to Public Sector April 9, 2019 By Christopher Flavelle and Katherine Chiglinsky Some of the world’s largest insurers are eagerly pitching cities, states and even school districts on policies designed to pay...
How One Company, AT&T, Is Using Models to Prepare for Natural Disaster Costs March 28, 2019 By Christopher Flavelle By 2050, residents of southern Florida could become familiar with storms borne on 90-mph winds. Water levels during floods will...