How These 4 Companies Are Fighting Climate Change at Home
We’ll give it to you straight: Climate change poses a major threat to the housing industry, experts and research studies warn. If sea levels rise as much as climate scientists are predicting, three dozen U.S. cities could be wiped off the map entirely and at least half the homes in 300 more cities could sink underwater by the turn of the century, according to a Zillow analysis of data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Large wildfires are increasing in frequency and scope and climate change is causing shifting rain patterns, translating to heavier inland flooding.