Europe’s Wildfire Season Exposes Climate Insurance Gap
Domestic insurers are expected to absorb most of the losses from Europe’s worst wildfire season in recent history, but the blazes are also raising a bigger question: who will…
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Scientists Affirm Climate Change Fuels Extreme Weather
Human-induced changes to the global climate have “a direct and well-understood impact” on extreme heat and rainfall, according to a landmark new U.S. National Academies report. The assessment comes…
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Specialty Farmers Adapt Harvests to Extreme Heat
Even as the sun started to set, the day’s heat was still hanging in the air as Annie Woods walked back out to harvest squash and zucchini on her…
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Southwestern Japan Prepares for Powerful Typhoon Bavi; Taiwan Expects Deluge of Rain
A large and powerful typhoon approached a remote chain of islands in Japan’s southwest on Friday, prompting authorities to warn of violent winds, torrential rain, landslides and flooding in…
