Strong Winds Kick up Pacific Northwest Wildfires September 9, 2020 Hurricane-force winds and high temperatures kicked up wildfires across parts of the Pacific Northwest over the Labor Day weekend, burning...
California Firefighters Battling Blazes in North and South July 7, 2020 California firefighters are battling large wildfires in Santa Clara and Los Angeles counties. A fire that has burned more than...
Arctic Temperatures Soar to Record Levels in June, Stoking Wildfires: EU Data July 7, 2020 By Emma Farge and Vladimir Soldatkin GENEVA/MOSCOW – Temperatures in Arctic Siberia soared to a record average for June amid a heat wave that is stoking...
Crews Battling 4 Wildfires in Arizona June 22, 2020 Hundreds of firefighters continued to battle three major wildfires burning in forested mountains and desert hills across Arizona. Crews were...
New Mexico Forest Official Cites Rising Risk of Human-Caused Wildfires May 11, 2020 The top administrator of a national forest in northern New Mexico says there’s an elevated risk of human-caused wildfires due...
Wisconsin Governor Issues Emergency Order Due to Wildfires April 22, 2020 Wisconsin residents grappling with the coronavirus have something else to worry about now: wildfires. Gov. Tony Evers on April 21...
Climate Forecast for 2020s Is Warmer, Stormier and More Extreme: Opinion December 31, 2019 By Faye Flam, Bloomberg Opinion Over the last decade, scientists learned a great deal about the climate, much of it concerning the connection between global...
Typhoon Hagibis to Cost Japan’s Economy $10B, with Insured Losses in Billions: Aon November 8, 2019 Typhoon Hagibis is likely to become one of 2019’s costliest events, with economic costs of more than US$10 billion and...
Boosting Resilience to U.S. Wildfires Should Be Insurance Industry Priority: I.I.I. November 6, 2019 Nearly a year after the deadliest and costliest wildfire in U.S. history, insurers and the customers they cover are revisiting...
500K-Plus Californians Lose Power; Large Wildfire Rages October 24, 2019 By Mark Chediak, David R. Baker and Brian K. Sullivan More than half a million people have lost power across California as part of a deliberate blackout designed to keep...