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Rising Drought Risk Spurs Investment Into Water Funds
Investors are starting to pay more attention to water shortages and how to turn them into long-term investments. Water-related exchange-traded funds attracted more money in the nine months through ...
Wild U.S. Weather Switcheroo Could Further Soak Midwest, Dry Out South
Different parts of the U.S. are set to see wildly disparate weather conditions next week, potentially rattling energy and agricultural markets. A potentially record-setting heat wave will probably ...
Sweden’s Wildfires Just One Sign of Growing European Climate Disaster
Hannele Arvonen, the owner of one of Sweden's largest lumber yards, is spending the winter months planning for a new and unexpected threat to her business: regular wildfires raging just south of the ...
July’s Droughts, Fires Caused Billions of Dollars in Economic Damage: Impact Forecasting
For many of July's global natural disasters, it was all about drought and wildfires, according to the latest update from Aon's Impact Forecasting. What the report found: Many countries dealt with ...
Wildfires Strike Northern California Once Again
Thousands were forced to flee their homes Monday as major wildfires encroached on a charred area of Northern California still recovering from severe blazes in recent years, sparking concern the state ...
U.S. Drought Footprint in January Reached Largest Levels Since 2014
In January, the East was cold, the West was warm and drought reached its largest extent since 2014, the National Centers for Environmental Information said Wednesday. The average temperature across ...
Historic Drought Devastates South Europe Crops
Italian durum wheat and dairy farmer Attilio Tocchi saw warning signs during the winter of the dramatic drought to come at his holding a mile away from the Tuscan coast. "When it still hadn't rained ...
‘Hydrological Extremes’ Become ‘New Normal’
Texas struggled through its driest year in history in 2011. Four years later was its wettest ever. The Mississippi River rose to all-time-high flood levels in 2011. In 2012, it hit its second-lowest. ...