Western US wildfires cost insurers up to $US13 billion in 2020
New York, USThomson Reuters Foundation A record-breaking wildfire season in the western United States cost insurers a staggering $US7 billion to $US13 billion in 2020, researchers said on Tuesday, an illustration of the growing price tag on natural disasters linked to climate change. Risk Management Solutions, a US-based risk management company, tabulated the costs of […]
Wildfire threat darkens California dream, residents say
Healdsburg, California, USThomson Reuters Foundation Kinsey Metts moved to California for its wilderness and great outdoors. Now she wants to leave for the same reasons. This autumn’s rash of destructive wildfires – predicted to grow worse in coming years as climate change strengthens – is threatening to shatter the California Dream that has long lured […]