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Utility Investors Wary of Exposures After Buffett’s PacifiCorp Held Liable for Wildfires

Destructive wildfires are now an almost routine part of summer in the American West, and electrical utilities have likewise become used to having their power lines and ...

What to Know About the Wildfire Smoke Drifting Into the U.S.

Millions of Americans woke up to apocalyptic, orange skies Wednesday as thick smoke from wildfires in Canada moved across the U.S. Northeast, spawning air quality ...

U.S Expected to Issue New Rule to Protect Against Wildfires

The Biden administration has identified more than 175,000 square miles (453,000 square kilometers) of old growth and mature forests on U.S. government land and plans to craft a new rule to better ...

6 Emerging Risks to Watch: From Glacial Floods to More Destructive Wildfires

In this edition of Risk Alerts, we highlight toxins in children's makeup, glacial floods, pollution's impact on mental health, wildfires, food addiction and ...

Insurance’s Wildfire Crisis: Three Keys for Rethinking Risk, Response

A year after the Marshall Fire devastated suburban Colorado in the dead of winter, property/casualty insurers worldwide are grappling with the new realities of wildfire risk. They'll need a ...

Unsyncopated Clocks: ‘Fire and Flood’ Book Highlights Insurers’ Climate-Change Late Show

Scientists have been sounding the climate-change alarm for decades. But despite these dire warnings, a large swath of the public still refuses to believe, and both policymakers and businesses have ...

Counting the Rising Cost of Climate Change: The Most Costly Natural Disasters

Climate change has raised the cost of natural disasters, as rising sea levels and drought increase the frequency and severity of flooding and wildfires, insurers and risk ...

How Climate Change Drives Heatwaves and Wildfires

Brutal heatwaves gripped both Europe and the United States last week and are forecast to dump searing heat on much of China into late August. In addition to temperatures spiking above 40 Celsius (104 ...

Wildfire Victims, Environmental Groups to Developers: Stop Building

Preston Brown knows the risk of wildfire that comes with living in the rural, chaparral-lined hills of San Diego County. He's lived there for 21 years and evacuated twice. That's why he fiercely ...

Wildfires in Europe: ‘Climate Change Affects Everyone’

Authorities across southern Europe battled on Sunday to control huge wildfires in countries including Spain, Greece and France, with hundreds of deaths blamed on soaring temperatures that scientists ...