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Water Supplies Strained by Rising Energy Demand: UN
Rising demand for energy, from biofuels to shale gas, is a threat to freshwater supplies that are already under strain from climate change, the United Nations said in a report on Friday. It urged ...
Rating Agency S&P Weighs in on TRIPRA Renewal; Says Some Ratings at Risk
Smaller insurers with less capital and more terrorism exposures could be subject to negative rating actions under a renewed but changed federal terrorism insurance program, rating agency Standard ...
Malaysia Plane Loss Spurs Calls to Upload ‘Black Box’ Data to the ‘Cloud’
The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has prompted calls for in-flight streaming of black box data over remote areas, but industry executives say implementing changes may be complex ...
Scientists Report Solar Blasts Narrowly Missed Earth in 2012
Fierce solar blasts that could have badly damaged electrical grids and disabled satellites in space narrowly missed Earth in 2012, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. The bursts would have wreaked ...
Nearly Half of Security Execs Say Insurers Alone Should Pay Costs of Physical Terror Attacks
Forty-seven percent of security executives across of a variety of industries believe that private insurance companies alone should pay for worker injuries and property damage in the aftermath of a ...
Majority of Businesses Not Fully Prepared for Online Security Incident
Only 17 percent of businesses globally are fully prepared for an online security incident, according to a new survey on the issue of incident response preparedness sponsored by Arbor Networks Inc. ...
$11+ Million a Day in U.K. Flood Insurance Claims, Says ABI
Insurance claims from the recent spate of floods in the U.K. are averaging $11.18 million a day, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI). The "wettest winter on record is likely to ...
New York Grabs ‘Shaky’ Lead Over London As Top Financial Center
New York replaced London as the world's leading financial center for the first time, after the City was rocked by a series of scandals and questions over the U.K.'s place in the European Union. New ...