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Parametric Insurance Increasingly Aids Farmers, Others Dealing With Extreme Weather
Joemar Flores, a spindly 28-year-old, gestured across his family's farmland, nestled between a steep hill and a river, and expressed gratitude for the rice paddies in the distance. They're still ...
Insurers Hike Rates as Extreme Storms Like Beryl Proliferate
Destructive storms like Hurricane Beryl that knocked out power to 3 million homes and businesses in Texas are growing more frequent and intense, and insurers are jacking up rates in response. That ...
Radioactive Material Sites More Vulnerable to Climate Change-Related Risks
As Texas wildfires burned toward the nation's primary nuclear weapons facility, workers hurried to ensure nothing flammable was around buildings and storage areas. When the fires showed no sign of ...
New Survey Reveals Tornado Warnings Are Widely Misunderstood
Roughly 50 percent of respondents in a newly released survey located in the mid-south (portions of Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi) could not accurately define a tornado warning, ...
Extreme Weather Is Driving More U.S. Power Outages, Studies Show
For decades, residents of eastern Queens in New York City have complained that they're more likely to lose power when extreme weather hits, even as lights in other parts of the city stay on. A new ...
Report: Europe Is the Fastest-Warming Continent, at Nearly Twice the Average Global Rate
Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organizations reported Monday, warning of the consequences for ...
Cat Losses Cause Travelers’ to Miss Q1 Profit Estimate
Travelers Companies missed first-quarter profit estimates on Wednesday as severe storms in the United States drove up its catastrophe losses, sending shares of the insurance bellwether down 8 percent ...
Long Recovery After Deadly Central U.S.Tornadoes
Residents in a swath of the central U.S. hit by deadly tornadoes were cleaning up, assessing damage and helping neighbors on Saturday. But it will be a long recovery from the storms that ripped ...