Ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily has uprooted trees and felled powerlines in Australia’s Queensland state, leaving tens of thousands without electricity or...
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Australia is being lashed by damaging winds and heavy rainfall as Severe Tropical Cyclone Kirrily makes landfall, the biggest system...
The insurance industry is grappling with a new kind of weather risk that’s increasingly driving its biggest loss category. While...
Two Australian resource-rich regions are bracing for potentially damaging storms that could lead to flooding, the latest threats after months...
Non-peak (secondary) perils and record-setting weather and climate events drove global insured losses from natural catastrophes to an estimated $123...
Freezing weather in Germany and other parts of Europe threatened widespread road, rail and flight disruptions as the region braced...
A record high tide in Maine washed away three historic fishing shacks that had stood since the 1800s and formed...
The number of insurers adopting policies on oil and gas has slowed, according to climate activist organization Insure Our Future’s...
Risk specialists see extreme weather and misinformation as most likely to trigger a global crisis in the next couple of...
Natural catastrophes in 2023 caused global economic losses of US$250 billion, with insurers and reinsurers paying US$95 billion of that...