Hundreds of homes outside the boundaries of Scottsdale can no longer get water from the city, so their owners are living a worst-case scenario of drought in the West.
The Federal Reserve board is expected to signal plans to raise interest rates in March as it focuses on fighting inflation in Washington.
Investors are turning to a new wave of climate science and analytics companies to manage risk and find opportunities.
Last year’s Inflation Reduction Act earmarked $369 billion for U.S. climate investments over the next decade — an unprecedented sum already beginning to trickle down from the federal to state and local levels.
Remote work may be here to stay, but not all “Zoomtowns” are created equal. Many of the pandemic’s most popular refuges have since suffered from housing unaffordability, climate disasters, or both.
Global heating will set the stage for extreme weather everywhere in 2023. The consequences are likely to be cataclysmic.
All-electric, solar- and battery-powered energy-smart connected communities offer greater energy-efficient and resilient new homes.
Proposal by a private consortium to build Mexican desalination plant comes as surprise to some on state’s water authority.
Exclusionary zoning is a prime example of local government gone wrong. Federal and state officials will have to proceed carefully in reforming it.
How a changing climate impacts reinsurance and catastrophe bonds
Folks are flocking to areas plagued with wildfires and extreme heat. Climate change will only make things worse.
From Florida to France to Australia, some reinsurers faced with soaring costs after this year’s extreme weather.
Why has the number of hurricanes causing $1 billion or more in damage more than doubled since the 1980s? And why has the total cost
See how Climate Alpha’s Resilience Index™, Climate Price™ and Scenario Forecaster can be used to find where to rebuild after natural disasters.
Climate Alpha CEO, Parag Khanna, urges people to move to resilient geographies and shifting technology to people in need in a recent Semafor op-ed
Data centers run our personal and professional lives, so it’s crucial that they keep working in a future of climate change.
Urban centers across Europe are seeking solutions as record summer temperatures threaten to become an annual event
It’s a small yet noticeable shift, experts say — but climate change is causing retirees to start reconsidering moves to disaster-prone dream locales.
Some people headed for northern New England, the Cape and Islands, and the Berkshires amid the newfound freedom of remote work, but like many major northern cities, metro Boston saw residents decamping for the Sun Belt, and not just to retire.
Small farmers are now going up against deep-pocketed investors, including private equity firms and real estate developers. Read our take on The New York Times new report.
Economic historian Adam Tooze asks whether the next shoe to drop in what he calls “the polycrisis” will be a global housing crash triggered by steadily rising interest rates.
The federal report paints a dire picture of what life is now like in America amid the climate crisis, and the incredible changes in store in the future. And it outlines some painful truths about global warming we must confront, but so far have not.
Our obsession with sovereignty is inhibiting the global mobility we desperately need. Dr. Parag Khanna shares his take in Financial Times.
What will it take for most Americans to realize the risks of a changing climate? As global leaders meet in Egypt for #COP27 and as the United States takes stock the day after the mid-term elections, Florida residents are grappling with whether to shelter in place following the destructive path of #HurricaneIan, or to build back better from a climate resilience standpoint.
This Yahoo News series analyzes different regions around the country in terms of climate change risks that they face now and will experience in the years to come.
A new report shows that for 90 percent of large companies, climate risk will threaten at least one asset, with a possible loss in value of 20 percent. Smart companies are getting ahead of that risk.
Hurricane Ian is one of the most devastating disasters in Florida’s history—a state with a long history of tragedy. For those millions affected by disasters across America every year it is an increasingly common story.
With the American West still in the grip of a 20-year #megadrought, California regulators have unanimously approved a $140 million desalination plant in Orange County — the first approved since stricter regulations were adopted in 2019. The small planet will only produce 5 million gallons daily — enough to serve 40,000 people — but is notable in two respects.
Climate Alpha’s founder and CEO Dr. Parag Khanna Khanna recently joined The Weather Channel to discuss #climatechange, #adaptation, and #migration. Where will Americans want to live in 2030 and beyond? How should regions prepare in the coming decades? And which places will successfully adapt to the next normal, and which will be left behind?
Greg Lindsay, Climate Alpha’s Chief Communications Officer, looks at The New York Time’s recent article, “Climate Pledges Are Falling Short, and a Chaotic Future Looks More Like Reality” on the upcoming UN Conference as it relates to climate pledges.
“A lot of real estate is going to be stranded because of global climate change,” the economist Nouriel Roubini — better known as “Dr. Doom” for correctly diagnosing the Global Financial Crisis — told Bloomberg News’ Odd Lots podcast last week.
An astonishing 10% of Canadian homes are effectively uninsurable due to flood risk, The Guardian reports.
The next victim of climate change is the American Dream. As the scale of #HurricaneIan’s losses mount — $67 billion in privately insured losses and counting
Climate gentrification is underway according to the Fast Company’s recent findings. Wealthier people and businesses are moving inland as climate change hits costal communities.
Land-use restrictions and lack of infrastructure have made it harder for developers to find sites to build homes; ‘almost across the board, you’re fighting for land’ according to The Wall Street Journal
Communities across the country hope to tap into funds from Democrats’ new climate law to restore coastal habitats, part of a program that emphasizes nature-based solutions.
As the Colorado River dries, the megadrought gripping the western states is only part of the problem. Alternative sources of water are also imperiled, and the nation’s food along with it.
The U.S. is in the middle of “danger season” — the period between May and October when the risk of climate disasters is at its highest. (A case in point: today is the anniversary of #HurricaneKatrina making landfall in New Orleans.)
The Washington Post’s Megan McArdle contrasts the diverging fortunes of Jackson Hole, WY and Buffalo, NY in an era of “Zoomtowns” and remote work.
People who relocated during the pandemic favored areas at higher risk of disruption due to climate change, but they may come to regret those moves over the long term, futurist Greg Lindsay told a gathering of the Denver Metro Commercial Association of Realtors on Thursday morning…
Currently, climate adaptation initiatives — that is, those that help people, animals, and plants to survive despite rising climate volatility rather than trying to reverse it — receive only 6% of climate-related investment. They deserve far greater business investment…
This week, parts of the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia found themselves underwater after an “atmospheric river” dumped inches of rain within hours, caused power outages and devastating floods, and forced the evacuations of thousands…
This decade marks the beginning of climate change taking a permanent place in our headlines — and humanity taking seriously the need to adapt to it. While climate consciousness has risen over the past 20 years and more…
If you’re looking for a strategy to get the most value from climate investments, the answer is simple: Cities like Detroit, Cleveland, and Buffalo will still be livable as the climate changes, and have the space to absorb climate migrants…
