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  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    News in-depthWildfires
    The iconic LA neighbourhoods reduced to ashes

    Home of Hollywood struggles to cope after thousands of homes and businesses are destroyed

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  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    US & Canadian companies
    Devastation and subrogation

    California’s wildfire fund could face a test

  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Moral Money
    How California wildfires are hitting the state’s housing market Premium content

    Insurance companies have refused to renew policies for hundreds of thousands of homes in recent years

    Fires burn in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California, during a powerful windstorm
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Wildfires
    Winds add new threat as deaths from LA fires reach 10

    Firefighters make some progress in Hollywood Hills after new blaze puts show business sites at risk

    Smoke obscures the Hollywood sign on Thursday as firefighters battled a fire nearby in the Hollywood Hills
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Insurers brace for losses of up to $20bn from California wildfires

    JPMorgan analysts double estimates as blazes continue to rage

    A home burns during the fire in Pacific Palisades, California
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Insurance
    Catastrophes cost world $320bn in 2024, reinsurer reports

    Losses rise by 30% as climate change takes its toll

    An aerial view of hurricane damage in Manasota Key, Florida, US
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Wildfires
    Los Angeles wildfires rage out of control leaving at least 5 dead

    Strong winds spread blazes as more than 100,000 residents ordered to evacuate

    Los Angeles County firefighters pull a hose in front of a burning home north-east of Los Angeles
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Wildfires
    LA residents flee as fire engulfs wealthy Palisades enclave

    Authorities order evacuations in coastal neighbourhood as strong winds fan flames

    A U.S flag flies as fire engulfs a structure while the Palisades Fire burns during a windstorm on the west side of Los Angeles
  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    Oil & Gas industry
    US energy markets on edge as ‘polar vortex’ set to deliver deep freeze

    Parts of the country may face the coldest January in more than a decade

    A woman shovels snow in front of her home in Erie, Pennsylvania
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Insurance
    Reinsurance costs fall as sector deploys record capital

    Decrease follows two years of bumper profits for providers

    A home that was damaged by Hurricane Milton
  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    The Big Read
    How climate change is redrawing Europe’s wine map

    Extreme weather is pushing viticulture into colder northern territory and forcing traditional winemaking regions to adapt

    Bjørn Bergum on his Slinde Vineyard in Norway
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    Climate change
    EU plans hot weather ‘stress test’ on railways and power grids

    Bloc seeks to respond to growing number of disasters expected as a result of climate change

    An employee, wearing an orange safety uniform, checks the temperature of railway tracks
  • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
    Valencia
    Valencia floods: the scandal of a disaster foretold

    Political leaders, on the day and over the decades, failed to heed warnings — or issue them as the waters surged

    A woman stands in a flooded basement, covered in mud and with a mask on, holding a bundle of belongings. Her eyes are closed and her head tilted back in despair
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    UK floods
    Flooding risk will affect 1 in 4 English properties by mid-century, says report

    Environment Agency says updated analysis has produced more pessimistic outlook of threat to homes by 2050

    Flooding in Hereford
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Many feared dead as cyclone hits French territory of Mayotte

    Ferocious winds from storm Chido strike island after ‘incredibly high’ temperatures in Indian Ocean

    Rescue workers attempt to clear a blocked road, in the aftermath of Cyclone Chido, in Mayotte, France
  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
    Scottish economy
    Scotland’s ‘sport of kings’ hit by extreme weather and land reform

    Grouse shooting industry says it sustains rural life but opponents argue it is time for transition

    A controlled burning of heather, known as muirburn, to aid rejuvenation, on the 10,000 acre Lochan estate, near Amulree, Scotland, on November 20
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why climate change will cause more people to flee to Europe Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Is France Eurosceptic?

    Residents walk on cracked ground next to the village of San Roman de Sau, at Sau reservoir in Spain
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Insurance
    Insurance losses from natural catastrophes set to top $135bn

    Two-thirds of global losses were in the US after two devastating hurricanes

    The exterior wall of the home has been ripped away leaving the contents exposed. The sea is in the background
  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Syria’s Assad trapped by rebel advance and refusal to compromise

    Rapid capture of Aleppo from government forces underlines regime’s fragility despite Russian and Iranian help

    A masked Islamist rebel holding a rifle and making a victory sign stands in front of a torn poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
  • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Syrian rebels sweep into Aleppo after lightning assault

    Offensive highlights Bashar al-Assad’s weakness as Israel targets regime supporters Iran and Hizbollah

    Rebel fighters pose for a photo in front of Aleppo’s citadel
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    UK floods
    Storm Bert reinforces need to prioritise UK’s flood defences

    West Worcestershire MP urges Environment Agency to expedite permanent scheme as storm causes damage across country

    Two shop owners console each other as they clear furniture from their flood damaged property in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, England on November 25 2024
  • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
    Climate change
    US north-east suffers unusual November drought and fires

    First rainfall in weeks does little to ease dry conditions throughout New York state and New Jersey

    Low water levels in the Ashokan reservoir in upstate New York, US
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    News in-depthSpain
    The long lunch blamed for Spain’s flood alert failure

    Survivors accuse regional government of errors as experts warn climate change is creating volatile natural disasters

    Protesters in Valencia hold up banners calling for the resignation of regional government chief Carlos Mazón
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    Special Report
    Managing Climate Change

    At the UN COP29 climate talks in Baku negotiators gear up to agree a new finance target. Plus: prospects for a carbon market framework; what Trump win means for Biden’s green bill; China’s cleantech boom; EU faces backlash; loss and damage funding

    A woman in a pink headscarf and outfit walks past a building with signage for ‘COP29 Baku Azerbaijan’ on a sunny day
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    Special ReportManaging Climate Change
    Smaller nations fear delays in climate loss and damage funding

    Fragile states worry they may have to wait years before receiving assistance

    People and vehicles in front of a collapsed warehouse
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