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Intact Financial Corp. estimates its catastrophe losses for the second quarter were around $421 million on a pre-tax basis.

Schools in New Delhi were forced to close on Monday after heavy monsoon rains battered the Indian capital, with landslides and flash floods killing at least 15 people over the last three days. Farther north, the overflowing Beas River swept vehicles downstream as it flooded neighborhoods.

Canadian homeowners facing wildfires, floods and other extreme weather events don't have to worry about companies pulling out of the country's home insurance market, experts say — at least not yet.

Experts say that even if the world stopped emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow, ocean levels would continue to rise.

The city is spending billions to protect Manhattan. Other boroughs, not so much.

A new report by the Canadian Climate Institute says private capital is needed to invest in climate adaptation infrastructure as extreme weather events like fires and floods become more acute by the year.

The United States is Earth's punching bag for nasty weather.

Amid a severe drought, Afghan scientists are asking the international community to engage with the brutal regime.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday stressed the importance of legal challenges against “climate-wrecking corporations" like fossil-fuel producers, ratcheting up his call for the fight against climate change — this time before the U.N.'s top human rights body.

About 10 years ago, San Francisco began to turn, in part, to a simple flooding solution — planting dozens of public rain gardens.

Friederike Otto, a member of the world’s only rapid reaction force of climate scientists, on looking into the apocalypse of extreme weather.

Storm-ravaged California scrambled to clean up and repair widespread damage on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, as the lashing rain eased in many areas, although the north could see thunderstorms and another powerful weather front was expected to hit the state Friday.

Dozens of countries and international institutions on Monday, January 9, 2023, pledged more than $9 billion to help Pakistan recover and rebuild from devastating summer floods that the United Nations chief called “a climate disaster of monumental scale.”

Such a significant loss of greenery isn’t just an eyesore; it’s bad for health.

But what early climate signals can be found in his cabinet and mandate letters? asks Seth Klein.