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  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
    South Africa
    Hundreds killed in South African floods

    More than 250 people die in one of the worst natural disasters in the country’s history

  • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
    Japanese politics & policy
    Electricity saving averts Tokyo blackout after earthquake shuts power plants

    Businesses and residents asked to conserve energy as power reserves fall

  • Monday, 21 March, 2022
    Australia
    Australia’s cataclysmic floods raise spectre of communities’ permanent retreat

    Climate change is leaving cities across the world uninsurable, and evacuation may be the only solution

  • Saturday, 19 March, 2022
    Special ReportClimate Change for Schools
    The rise of ‘extreme weather attribution’

    With computer modelling, scientists hope to understand how climate change contributes to wildfires, floods and droughts

  • Thursday, 17 March, 2022
    Japan
    Japanese companies close factories after earthquake in north-east

    Tremor kills two people but country’s preparedness credited with preventing greater damage

  • Thursday, 17 March, 2022
    Japan
    Powerful Japan earthquake leaves two dead and more than 100 injured

    Magnitude 7.4 tremor rattles areas devastated by 2011 tsunami with warnings of more potential aftershocks

  • Wednesday, 2 March, 2022
    Insurance
    Floods in Australia decimate insurers’ natural hazard budgets

    Rise in extreme weather-related claims fuels concern about impact of climate change on sector

  • Monday, 28 February, 2022
    Climate change
    Catastrophic floods pile pressure on Australian government

    PM’s administration criticised over climate change stance as soldiers called in to help disaster relief operations

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    England
    Storm Eunice causes at least three deaths and inflicts chaos across UK

    Flights and trains cancelled and 700,000 left without power as ‘strongest wind’ recorded in England strikes

  • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
    FT Magazine
    How Miami became the most important city in America

    Once a refuge for the divorced, bankrupt and unemployed, Miami has evolved into a paradise of freedom

  • Monday, 24 January, 2022
    Peru
    Peru threatens Repsol unit with fines over ‘ecocide’ oil spill

    Spanish oil company says it was not warned of high waves after tsunami triggered by volcanic eruption in Tonga

  • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
    Tonga volcano relief effort complicated by ‘Covid-free’ policy

    Pacific nation reeling from eruption wants aid workers to follow strict rules to keep virus out

  • Friday, 14 January, 2022
    Climate change
    Weather events cost the US $145bn in 2021 as climate change took hold

    Global temperatures in 2022 expected to be among top 10 warmest on record

  • Monday, 10 January, 2022
    Munchener Ruckversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG
    Climate fears are driving up demand for disaster insurance, says Munich Re

    European prices already on the rise after floods in Germany last year

  • Friday, 17 December, 2021
    Climate change
    California hit by record rain and heavy snow months after severe fires

    Storm system causes mudslides and prompts evacuations in the south of US’s most populous state

  • Sunday, 12 December, 2021
    Deaths mount after ‘unprecedented’ tornadoes devastate parts of US

    Storms destroy a candle factory in Kentucky and an Amazon warehouse in Illinois

  • Friday, 3 December, 2021
    Climate change
    La Niña expected to intensify global rain and drought after second consecutive year

    Weather pattern linked to floods in Australia, drought in Afghanistan and dry winter in US

  • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
    Special ReportFT Wealth: December 2021
    Fire, frost, smoke: how climate change is threatening the wine industry

    Prices are rising, which means investors should understand the risks

  • Monday, 1 November, 2021
    Special ReportManaging Climate Change
    Amazon populations under threat from floods, fires and drought

    Emerging dangers in the region represent a warning for the whole planet

  • Friday, 29 October, 2021
    Capital markets
    Catastrophe bonds storm into mainstream as climate threat grows

    Investors take on risks of events like floods and earthquakes in $30bn debt market

  • Sunday, 24 October, 2021
    LexBig Data
    Flood risks: big data is helping business keep its head above water Premium content

    As threat to wealth and health grows, expect predictive technology to become equally vital

  • Monday, 18 October, 2021
    News in-depthClimate change
    Flooding could leave billions of US municipal debt under water

    Default rate on muni bonds may rise as cash-strapped cities struggle with extreme weather events

  • Saturday, 25 September, 2021
    John Dizard
    US is still grasping for a solution on how to insure against floods

    True cost of a Federal programme has been less than fully transparent

  • Thursday, 23 September, 2021
    Climate change
    Reinsurers underplay climate risk by up to half, S&P estimates

    Data from past three decades suggest higher losses that could erode capital

  • Thursday, 16 September, 2021
    Union Pacific Corp
    Wildfires and ‘violent’ weather leave railroad giant facing $100m bill

    Union Pacific chief says ‘climate change looks quite real to us’ as company forced to rebuild bridges

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