Record Western Wildfires a Contrast in Otherwise Quiet Year for U.S. Natural Disasters January 28, 2016 By Don Jergler It was a relatively quiet year for natural disasters – except for those living in the Western U.S. Property data...
Group Asking Residents Use Drones to Map El Niño Flooding in California January 25, 2016 By Gillian Flaccus Forget about selfies. In California, residents are using smartphones and drones to document the coastline’s changing face. Starting this month,...
Weather Service: Tornado Hit Southern California in Last Week’s El Niño Storms January 15, 2016 The National Weather Service says a small tornado touched down in Ventura County, Calif. during last week’s powerful El Niño-driven...
Insured Nat Cat Losses 31% Below Average During 2015: Aon Benfield Report January 14, 2016 Global natural disasters in 2015 caused a combined total insured loss of $35 billion – 31 percent below the 15-year...
Weather Forecaster Warns La Niña Could Follow on Heels of El Niño January 5, 2016 By Phoebe Sedgman The El Niño that disrupted weather worldwide last year has peaked. Now forecasters are predicting what may be next for...
El Niño Helped Reduce Natural Catastrophe Losses in 2015: Munich Re January 4, 2016 By Jonathan Gould Insurers paid out around $27 billion for natural disaster claims last year with weather causing 94 percent of incidents, underscoring...
Ridesharing Dominates 2016 Western Region Headlines December 30, 2015 By Don Jergler Goodbye to the news year 2015, and while there will be no shortage of headline-making topics to associate with the...
Warm 2016 May Help Put Climate Change on The Map – Even Higher That Is December 23, 2015 By Don Jergler If you think you heard a lot about climate change in 2015, wait till next year – or next week...
‘Monster’ El Nino May Increase Global Warming, Cause Stronger Weather Events December 9, 2015 By Luc Cohen In Buffalo, it hasn’t snowed yet this year. A Duluth, Minnesota, newspaper reported that the temperature was 40 degrees above...
Planet Moves Closer to Dangerous Levels of Warming with 2015 Temperatures: UN November 25, 2015 By Alex Morales The planet is halfway to dangerous levels of global warming, with the average temperature for 2015 set to eclipse last...