Fast moving climate change is no longer a distant backdrop to daily life, it is reshaping the physical world in ways that ...

New warnings from financial firms and insurers point to a future defined by profound risks to the global economy from heat, storms and other disasters. By David Gelles As stocks gyrate in response to ...

Seen through an actuarial lens, the changing climate is not an ideology. It’s a risk management challenge already reshaping ...

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it? Reading time 8 minutes If a 60-mile-wide (100-kilometer-wide) ...

“[T]he questions posed by the General Assembly represent more than a legal problem: they concern an existential problem of planetary proportions that imperils all forms of life and the very health of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an attorney who writes about ESG policy, laws, and regulations. The ICJ was established in 1945 through the UN Charter to ...

The world is on course to trigger several climate "tipping points" if global government policies stay on their current course, according to a new study April 23. These points of no return are specific ...

In 2025, carbon pollution made 89% of record high daily temperatures set across 247 major U.S. cities more likely — and influenced risky extreme heat events around the globe. Hurricane Melissa, the ...

Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused climate change, according to a new report by scientists in Europe. The ...