Viewpoint: Environmental Debt Risk Is Bigger Than Japan’s GDP January 6, 2021 By Tim Quinson The financial risk posed to companies by natural disasters keep growing and growing, and the size of potential losses is...
PG&E Judge Proposes Stricter Probation After Wildfires December 30, 2020 By Joel Rosenblatt and Mark Chediak The judge overseeing PG&E Corp.’s criminal probation is looking to tighten the leash on the utility by requiring it to...
Natural Disasters Cost Insurance Industry $76B in 2020 – Swiss Re December 16, 2020 ZURICH, Dec 15 — Natural disasters like wildfires which devastated parts of the United States and a record number of...
Wildfires Receding Give Globe Rare Bit of Positive Climate Data December 14, 2020 By Jonathan Tirone The dystopian images of wildfires ravaging vast swathes of woodland around the globe belie a rare positive signal for the...
The Stormy, Fiery Year When Climate Disasters Wouldn’t Stop December 11, 2020 By Seth Borenstein Nature struck relentlessly in 2020 with record-breaking and deadly weather- and climate-related disasters. With the most named storms in the...
A Year of Heat and Fire Accelerated the Arctic’s Transformation December 10, 2020 By Eric Roston Back when Donald Perovich, an engineering professor at Dartmouth and member of the MOSAiC Arctic research team, conducted his first...
Plan Released to Reduce Massive Wildfires in US West November 30, 2020 By Keith Ridler BOISE, Idaho — U.S. officials on Friday released an overarching plan for removing or changing vegetation over a huge swath...
Cybersecurity is Top Business Worry in ‘Age of Risk’ – Marsh & McLennan CEO November 17, 2020 By Alwyn Scott Cybersecurity has emerged as the most pressing exposure for business confronting a new “age of risk,” topping the coronavirus pandemic...
State Farm Pilot Uses Sensors to Detect Wiring Defects That Can Cause Fires November 16, 2020 By Jim Sams State Farm is sending sensors that can detect hazards in electric wiring to 40,000 homeowners in California, Arizona and Texas...
California Wine Country Adapting to Annual Wildfire Threat November 10, 2020 By Daisy Nguyen SAN FRANCISCO — Harvest season in Northern California’s wine country is what dream weddings are made of: ripe grapevines and...