British Columbia is extending a state of emergency for two more weeks as wildfires sweeping across the province’s interior show...
2017 catastrophes News
Global insured losses from natural disasters during the first half of 2017 are estimated at US$22 billion with 76 percent...
Fast-moving wildfires in British Columbia have forced nearly 40,000 people to leave their homes and residents are flooding into crowded...
Insurers paid out around $19.5 billion for natural disaster claims in the first half of 2017, almost 40 percent less...
A severe storm that swept through central Alberta during the third week of June has resulted in more than C$30...
Wildfires sweeping across British Columbia, the world’s biggest exporter of softwood lumber, sent timber prices surging and forced the closure...
More than 300 wildfires in British Columbia have forced Canadian lumber mills and an Enbridge Inc. natural gas compressor station...
Floods and storms cost the global economy more than $5 billion in June, with most of those losses generated in...
The estimate for the property insurance market’s loss for tropical cyclone Debbie has risen to A$1.4 billion (US$1.1 billion) from...
Total aggregated economic losses from severe weather in the U.S. during May was set to exceed US$4.0 billion, while public...