Wildfire Resilience Efforts Are Improving: Triple-I Panelists June 29, 2021 Panelists convened by the Insurance Information Institute and ResilientH20 Partners agreed that resilience is building due to technological advances and...
Fire Danger Rises as Heat Grips Parts of Montana, Wyoming June 17, 2021 Authorities warned of extreme wildfire dangers as a sweltering heat wave was forecast to intensify across much of Montana and...
California Farmers Being Told Drought Could Cut Off Their Water June 17, 2021 Thousands of Central California farmers were warned Tuesday that they could face water cutoffs this summer as the state deals...
California Seeing More Wildfires as Drought Intensifies May 26, 2021 By Don Thompson As California sinks deeper into drought it already has had more than 900 additional wildfires than at this point in...
Severe Water Crisis on Oregon-California Border to Impact Agriculture May 19, 2021 By Gillian Flaccus The water crisis along the California-Oregon border went from dire to catastrophic this week as federal regulators shut off irrigation...
California Drought Emergency Expanded to Large Swath Of State May 12, 2021 By Don Thompson California Gov. Gavin Newsom this week expanded a drought emergency to a large swath of the nation’s most populous state...
White House to Assist Drought-Plagued Western U.S. Communities April 22, 2021 By Nichola Groom The White House on Wednesday announced an effort to provide immediate support to farmers, tribes and communities suffering from worsening...
Kenya Startup Pula Offers Insurance to African Farmers Hit by Effects of Climate Change April 20, 2021 By Edwin Waita KITUI, Kenya – When Kenyan farmer Waki Munyalo’s crop of lentils shrank by three quarters last year because of unusually...
Possible Water Crisis for Ag Operations on Oregon-California Border April 19, 2021 By Gillian Flaccus Hundreds of farmers who rely on a massive irrigation project that spans the Oregon-California border learned Wednesday they will get...
Arizona Farmers Should Expect Less Water in 2022 April 5, 2021 Arizona officials are putting farmers in south-central Arizona on notice that the continuing drought means a “substantial cut” in deliveries...