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U.S. Fruit Growers Risk Disaster From Record February Warmth
February's record warmth across the U.S. means several weeks of worry for fruit growers in the Midwest and Northeast as trees flower early, leaving them vulnerable to a hard freeze that could sweep ...
Move-in Ready Home Modules Offer Faster Method of Post-Disaster Rebuilding: Texas A&M
Texas legislators are investigating the benefits of RAPIDO, a pilot program developed with recommendations from Texas A&M University's Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HRRC) that ...
Obama Urges Tighter Building Codes to Reduce Natural Disaster-Related Losses
President Barack Obama is asking the private sector to tighten building standards to reduce losses from natural disasters after studies linked an increase in extreme weather to climate change. The ...
Alberta Wildfire Could Cost Insurers Close to $7 Billion
A wildfire in the Alberta city of Fort McMurray could cost insurers as much as C$9 billion (U.S. $7 billion) making it by far the costliest ever Canadian natural disaster, according to research by ...
Paulson, Bloomberg Backing Study of U.S. Climate Impacts
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg are sponsoring a study of how climate change will affect the United States and what that disruption will cost. ...
Alberta Floods Are Costliest Insured Natural Disaster in Canadian History
Estimated insured property damage caused by last June's southern Alberta floods now exceeds $1.7 billion—making it the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history, according to Insurance Bureau ...
Tokyo Riskiest City Due to Natural Disaster Exposure
Japan's Tokyo-Yokohama region is the riskiest place in the world to do business, in terms of the potential human and economic costs of a possible natural catastrophe, a study found on Wednesday. The ...
Tornadoes Prefer Higher Elevations, Cause Greater Damage Traveling Uphill
A recent investigation of the effect of terrain elevation changes on a tornado's path shows tornadoes cause more damage going uphill than downhill. Engineering researchers at the University of ...