Volcanic eruptions are right up there with hurricanes and earthquakes on the list of nature’s most formidable catastrophes. The April...
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BP Plc managed Thursday to lower a containment cap onto its ruptured deep-sea wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico in...
Teams of workers in protective boots and gloves scoured Alabama’s Dauphin Island Wednesday for washed up tar balls and tar...
The U.S. Deepwater Horizon and Venezuelan Aban Pearl drilling rig losses have left upstream energy insurers with an unprecedented bill...
Reinsurers have bumped up prices for offshore energy-related insurance premiums by 50 percent following insurance industry losses of up to...
The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will be even more active than feared, leading U.S. forecasters said Wednesday as they predicted...
Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, under a second director since Craig Fugate left a year ago to run its federal...
The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season is likely to produce 10 hurricanes, five of them major, the Colorado State University hurricane...
The death toll in Central America from landslides and flooding triggered by the year’s first tropical storm surged to 99...
Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide has released a report that examines the implications of the Gulf oil spill on...