Over the past two decades, the global insurance industry has undergone a quiet but significant shift. Regions once considered manageable risks are now being labeled financially unviable by insurers.

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With extreme weather events, fires and floods growing increasingly common, general warnings are no longer adequate. Researchers at Uppsala University, in collaboration with the World Meteorological ...

Researchers are working on an artificial intelligence model that can recognize landslides. University of Cambridge scientists in the U.K. hope that this AI model will find landslides after extreme ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Brian J. Yanites, Indiana University (THE CONVERSATION) Hurricane Helene lasted only a ...

Texas, Georgia and Illinois are the three worst states for natural disasters. Hawaii, Alaska and Maine are the three states with the fewest natural disasters. Natural disaster frequency and losses are ...

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...