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RMS Signs on 5 New Catastrophe Modeling Partners
RMS said it inked partnerships with five additional companies in a bid to further diversify catastrophe modeling options for its new cutting-edge system. Financial terms were not disclosed. The ...
Beijing Breaks Into Top 10 City Rankings: A.T. Kearney
Beijing's ability to draw business investment helped vault it into the top 10 of cities with the greatest global appeal. The Chinese capital landed at eighth of 84 municipalities ranked by ...
Chilean Wildfire Damage Wipes Out 2,000-Plus Homes And Counting
Chilean firefighters were struggling to control a blaze around the city of Valparaiso that has destroyed more than 2,000 homes on Monday, just two weeks after an earthquake collapsed houses in the ...
Cyclone Ita Update: Ports Reopen, Power Resumed
Queensland remained on alert for flash floods and destructive winds Sunday as Tropical Cyclone Ita hugged the northern coast of Australia's second-largest state. Gales with gusts of up to 110 ...
UN Report: Renewables, Nuclear Energy Must Triple to Save Climate
The world needs to triple the energy it gets from renewables, nuclear reactors and power plants that use emissions-capture technology to avoid dangerous levels of global warming, United Nations ...
AP Backstory: Day Before IPCC Report Filled With Wrangling Over Charts, Summaries
After racing against the clock in an all-night session, the U.N.'s expert panel on climate change was putting the final touches Saturday on a scientific guide to help governments, industries and ...
AIR Worldwide: Tough Building Codes Will Counter Cyclone Ita’s Wrath
Tropical Cyclone Ita slammed into the north Queensland coast late Friday, but tougher building codes, a sparse population near landfall and the relatively small size of the storm will minimize ...Ship Owners Have to Provide Insurance, Bond for Stranded Merchant Sailors: New UN Rule
Sailors stranded on merchant ships without food, supplies or a way home won new safeguards. Ship owners will have to provide insurance or a bond to pay for sailors' wages and repatriation under a new ...