Extreme heat and and humidity already cause 1,250 heatstroke deaths a year, so rising temperatures will make exercise in the hottest months even more dangerous

Intensifying climate extremes are exposing growing gaps in insurance coverage and threatening financial resilience. Drawing on a recent panel hosted at the Collège de France, this column examines how escalating disaster costs, market failures, and the need for better prevention urge to redefine societies’ risk management mechanisms in an increasingly uncertain climate landscape. The discussion highlighted the tension between risk-based pricing and solidarity-based schemes, underlining the necessity of prevention efforts and more equitable risk-sharing arrangements. As climate hazards intensify, striking a sustainable balance between affordability and fiscal viability emerges as a pressing challenge for policymakers, insurers, and society alike.

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From a high chair to the ocean floor, Can the Seas Survive Us? in Norfolk’s Sainsbury Centre explores our watery world and the climate crisis

While we can still limit warming by cutting emissions, we now face having to adapt to more extreme weather

In oceans and on land, from the north to the south pole, records were smashed for the monthly average temperature

Almost €700 million worth of bicycles were reported stolen in the Netherlands last year, up €230 million on 2021, according to figures from national statistics agency CBS. In total, 980,000 bikes were...

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