Some of last year’s crazy weather — including extreme heat around the world to unusually warm waters in the Bering...
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Global insured losses from natural disasters during the first half of 2017 are estimated at US$22 billion with 76 percent...
Forecasters again lowered the odds of El Niño forming by year’s end, a scenario that may mean more Atlantic hurricanes...
Severe weather in the U.S. remains the largest contributor to global insurance losses in 2017 after April continued the trend...
There were startling colors here just a year ago, a dazzling array of life beneath the waves. Now this Maldivian...
World temperatures hit a record high for the third year in a row in 2016, creeping closer to a ceiling...
Insurers paid out around $50 billion for natural disaster claims last year, almost double 2015’s payout of $27 billion, reinsurer...
China’s seasonal “Mei-Yu” rainfall in July led to the worst flooding since 1998, bringing total combined economic losses of an...
Economic losses caused by natural catastrophes in the first half of 2016 totaled US$70 billion, a significant increase from the...

This summer and fall, the Atlantic Ocean might become a testing ground for competing scientific theories. After decades of warmth,...