Disaster costs fell in the U.S. in 2025. Still, it was the fourth time in five years that extreme weather inflicted more than ...

Part of the roof of Genesis Cooper's home is shown blown off after a tornado, spawned by Tropical Storm Debby, passed through Lucama, N.C., on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. Environmental activists have ...

Home insurance is a vital safeguard for protecting one of the most valuable assets many people own. However, in recent years, homeowners in climate risk areas have been facing steep increases in their ...

KCCI EIGHT NEWS AT SIX, THE 15TH ANNUAL CLIMATE STATEMENT SAYS SEVERE WEATHER WILL HAVE AN IMPACT ON INSURANCE PREMIUMS FROM HOMEOWNERS TO FARMERS. EXPERTS SAY THE PRICE FOR INSURANCE DUE TO EXTREME ...

A growing climate industrial complex is driving up premiums, lining the insurance industry’s pockets and draining Americans’ pocketbooks, according to some academics. Several estimates show that ...

On Monday night at Missouri River Regional Library in Jefferson City, two local experts sought to explain what is driving up insurance rates. The culprit, overwhelmingly, is climate change, they ...

“We are homeowners whose entire neighborhoods have been destroyed by fires and we’re fighting our insurance companies while continuing to pay rate hike after rate hike.” “We are small business owners ...

In recent years, climate change litigation has begun to impact an increasingly diverse range of businesses and their directors and officers. This trend has been highlighted in The Grantham Research ...

For 15 years, Iowa researchers and educators have released an annual climate statement outlining how a changing climate is already affecting Iowans and how the state can respond. This year’s statement ...

Iowa (ICD) - Scientists from universities across Iowa urge a shift to more renewable energy sources and updated building standards to cope with insurance premiums that are mounting due to a changing ...

The release of the 15th annual Iowa Climate Statement brought discussion surrounding climate change contributing to higher property insurance costs in the state Monday. Roughly 180 Iowa science ...