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Acute global food insecurity rose for the sixth year in a row in 2024, according to the 2025 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), a collaborative effort coordinated by the Food Security Information Network. The report shows that climate extremes, conflict, forced displacement and economic shocks continue to drive malnutrition and food insecurity around the […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — which has been experiencing massive staff layoffs and funding cuts by the Trump administration — has announced it will stop tracking the cost of climate crisis-fueled weather disasters, including heat waves, floods and wildfires. The agency said updates will no longer be made to its Billion-Dollar Weather […]

A new study has revealed that 28 of the most populated cities in the U.S. are sinking, which can increase flood risks and weaken infrastructure. Further, researchers determined that 80% of total sinkage could be attributed to groundwater withdrawal for human use. According to the study, published in the journal Nature Cities, about 34 million […]

More than two dozen United States Geological Service (USGS) centers that monitor the country’s waters for flooding and drought, as well as manage water supply levels to make sure communities don’t run out, have had their leases terminated by the Trump administration. The 25 centers being targeted are part of a network that tracks the […]

What once were hundred-year extreme storms in Bangladesh could now strike the country once a decade or more due to climate change, a recent study from MIT shows. Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated places on Earth, with more than 170 million people living in an area about the size of New York […]

A new report from the United Kingdom’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) has found that the country is unprepared for future climate change impacts like heat waves, drought, floods and wildfires. The report cites an extreme lack of progress made since its last assessment in 2023. “The increasing impacts of climate change are clear, both globally […]

New research detailed in The Conversation provides five ways cities can better cope with and become more resilient to climate change through progressive climate adaptation. The world’s societies, economies and ecosystems are under imminent threat from climate breakdown. But, due to what the United Nations has termed an “adaptation gap,” many countries and cities are […]

According to a new analysis by Swiss Re Institute, insured natural catastrophe losses globally could reach $145 billion this year, primarily driven by “secondary perils” such as floods, wildfires and severe thunderstorms. This follows a five to seven percent long-term annual growth trend, the institute said. The report, Natural catastrophes: insured losses on trend to […]