Wall Street embraces weather risk in new era of storms
BRIAN K. SULLIVAN, ALEXANDRA SEMENOVA, and ERIC ROSTON / BLOOMBERG - Every uptick in wind speed along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline is of enormous interest [go to article]
Climate change could make insurance too expensive for most people – report
ARTHUR NESLEN / THE GUARDIAN - Insurers have warned that climate change could make cover for ordinary people unaffordable after the world’s largest reinsurance firm [go to article]
How climate change will put billions more at risk of mosquito-borne diseases
VICKY STEIN / PBS - Climate change doesn’t just shift weather patterns. It can force the migration of plants, people, animals, bugs — and disease [go to article]
Wall Street is masking the true cost of climate change for coastal homes
JAMES TARMY / BLOOMBERG - Last November, less than a month after someone paid more than $1 million for an oceanfront house on New York’s Fire Island, a narrow strip [go to article]
Despite favorable political winds, scant progress in NJ on climate change
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - With an aggressive clean-energy agenda and an administration committed to fighting climate change, New Jersey seemingly [go to article]
Hurricanes to deliver a bigger punch to coasts
RYAN P. MULLIGAN / THE CONVERSATION - When tropical cyclone Idai made landfall near Beira, Mozambique on March 14, a spokesperson [go to article]
Protesting students across N.J. skip school, join global ‘climate strike’ to preserve their future
MICHAEL SOL WARREN / NJ.COM - Hundreds of students around New Jersey skipped school Friday for a cause that runs much deeper than a typical day of hooky [go to article]
Hundreds of kids across N.J. plan to skip school because leaders aren’t addressing climate...
MICHAEL SOL WARREN / NJ.COM - On Friday, kids across the Garden State will skip school for a global cause. Students in New Jersey, across the United States [go to article]
Mild winter, wet 2018 may cause surge in ticks in NJ, Northeast
SCOTT FALLON / NORTHJERSEY.COM - A mild winter coupled with an excessively rainy 2018 may lead to a surge in the number of ticks capable of transmitting Lyme disease [go to article]
Barriers, flood walls could help protect back bays, Army Corps says
JON HURDLE / NJ SPOTLIGHT - Get ready for storm-surge barriers, floodwalls, and levees to protect New Jersey’s flood-prone back bays from sea-level rise [go to article]
