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Global Wildfire Surge Hits U.S., Propelled by Rising Temperatures
The U.S. is enduring one of its worst wildfire seasons in years, with blazes scorching millions of acres. It's part of a global pattern of hot, dry conditions that favor fires becoming more common ...
NOAA Maintains Forecast for Below-Normal Atlantic Hurricane Season
Nearly halfway through the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, NOAA's prediction of below-normal activity in the Atlantic basin remains unchanged. Today, forecasters from NOAA's National Weather Service ...
Zurich CEO: El Niño May Mean Fewer Hurricanes, Insurance Losses in North America
The development of the El Niño climate phenomenon might limit catastrophe claims in North America, Zurich Insurance's CEO said on Thursday after the company reported second-quarter results. "What we ...
Why Multifamily Owners’ Safety Investments Aren’t Showing Up in Their Premiums
Multifamily owners have spent the last several years pouring capital into resilience, in the form of hardened roofs, backup power and fortified building envelopes, to name a few. The logic is sound. ...
New Security Incidents: OpenAI, Anthropic AI Agents Implicated
An AI agent was caught creating fake online identities to gain unauthorized access to secure systems during tests of models from OpenAI and Anthropic which revealed a series of new breaches, ...
Lawsuits Over Child Safety, Deaths Mount Against Social Media Firms
The families of four teenagers who died by suicide are suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube over what they describe as "years of escalating harms" from using their platforms that eventually ...
Europe’s Wildfire Season Exposes Climate Insurance Gap
Domestic insurers are expected to absorb most of the losses from Europe's worst wildfire season in recent history, but the blazes are also raising a bigger question: who will pay as climate-driven ...
UN, Scientists Warn Strong El Niño Will Add Fuel to ‘Planet Already on Fire’
A strengthening El Niño has already broken records for intensity at its early stages, and it is likely to spark even more wild weather worldwide as it grows, "adding fuel to a planet already on ...