Australia Begins Clean Up From Bushfires with Insurance Claims Continuing to Rise January 21, 2020 By Rebecca Jones The New South Wales and Victorian state governments will coordinate the clean-up of insured and uninsured residential and commercial properties...
Severe Storms Expected to Bring Relief, New Risks to Bushfire-Stricken Australia January 15, 2020 By Lidia Kelly Severe storms are expected to bring some relief in the coming days from huge bushfires scorching Australia but the heavy...
Climate Scientists Warn that Australia’s Bushfires Could Become the New Normal January 14, 2020 By Matthew Green Bushfires ravaging Australia have provided a foretaste of the kinds of conditions that could become normal unless the world moves...
Philippine Volcano Erupts, Forcing Evacuation of Thousands of Residents January 14, 2020 By Andreo Calonzo, Claire Jiao and Ditas Lopez A lock-down is being implemented by police in three towns in the Philippines near an erupting volcano, 40 miles (65...
Australia’s Bushfires Could Surpass 2009’s Costly Season; Analysts, Insurers Comment January 10, 2020 By L.S. Howard Australia’s bushfire season has months to run and could easily surpass the most costly fire season, 2009’s Black Saturday fires...
Australians Evacuate Their Homes as Soaring Temperatures, Winds Fan Bushfires January 10, 2020 By Colin Packham and Swati Pandey Australia urged nearly a quarter of a million people to evacuate their homes on Friday and prepared military backup as...
Insurance Industry Calls for Action to Mitigate Climate Risk as Australia Bushfires Widen January 8, 2020 By Emily Cadman As the devastation from Australia’s bushfires widens, the insurance industry is calling for concerted action to mitigate the impact of...
Update: Australia’s Firefighters Take Advantage of Cooler Weather to Help Quell Wildfires January 7, 2020 By Jason Gale Firefighters are taking advantage of cooler weather to quell southeastern Australia’s wildfires that have killed at least 24 people and...
Australia Sees No End to Unprecedented Wildfire Crisis January 6, 2020 By Jason Scott Exhausted firefighters welcomed cooler weather and patchy rain in blaze-ravaged southeastern Australia Monday after a calamitous few days, even as...
Indonesia Flooding Forces Evacuation of More Than 400,000 People with 42 Deaths January 3, 2020 By Arys Aditya and Tassia Sipahutar At least 42 people have died from the New Year’s Day flooding in Indonesia, and hundreds of thousands were evacuated,...