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"Within more than 100 communities across 12 states, homeowners must comply with the mandate to secure flood insurance within 45 days, or face disruptions." insurancejournal.com/news/na…

FEMA's New Flood Maps Means More Homes Require Flood Insurance: Cotality

New changes to FEMA's flood maps means that thousands more residential properties are now located within the high-risk Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA),

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Climate Change Made Canada’s Forests Much More Likely to Burn: Report insurancejournal.com/news/in…

Climate Change Made Canada's Forests Much More Likely to Burn: Report

The planet's warming had a strong influence on destructive wildfires in Canada that have raged across Ontario and the Northwest Territories since late

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Europe’s Credit Markets Shrug Off Climate Risks Despite Devastating Droughts insurancejournal.com/news/in…

Europe's Credit Markets Shrug Off Climate Risks Despite Devastating Droughts

Severe droughts across Europe this summer led to huge wildfires, disrupted transport on critical routes, threatened power plants and hit corporate

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Climate Change Raises Risk of Disasters Like Nepal Floods nytimes.com/2026/08/27/clima… via @NYTimes

Climate Change Raises Risk of Disasters Like Nepal Floods

Glaciers and permafrost in the Himalayas are melting faster as temperatures rise, though scientists are still studying the exact causes of this week’s landslide.

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"As climate events intensify, exposure is expanding, and loss severities from secondary perils, such as convective storms, wildfires, floods and hail, are no longer easily dwarfed by hurricanes or earthquakes. These perils have contributed significantly to the insured losses in the last few years, accounting for the substantial portion of the industry’s financial burden." insurancejournal.com/news/in…

Viewpoint: Is it Time to Rethink the 'Secondary-Peril' Label and Reclassify Risk?

As climate events intensify, exposure is expanding, and loss severities from secondary perils, such as convective storms, wildfires, floods and hail, are

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The Neverending Impulse to End Muni Bonds’ Tax Exemption governing.com/finance/the-ne…

The Neverending Impulse to End Muni Bonds’ Tax Exemption

It survived last year’s congressional tax and spending debate, but efforts to repeal it are likely to come up again. Before that happens, it’s important for governments to quantify what the tax break...

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New York Strains Aging Power Barges Amid Growing Electricity Need governing.com/infrastructure…

New York Strains Aging Power Barges Amid Growing Electricity Need

New York City is increasingly relying on half-century-old floating power plants to prevent blackouts as extreme heat, electrification and growing electricity demand push the grid closer to its limits.

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"The U.S. government proposed deep cuts to water supply for Arizona, California and Nevada during dry years in a new plan it released on Friday to operate the drought-stricken Colorado River." insurancejournal.com/news/we…

US Proposes Deep Colorado River Water Cuts For Arizona, California, Nevada

The U.S. government proposed deep cuts to water supply for Arizona, California and Nevada during dry years in a new plan it released on Friday to operate

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"A Post analysis shows that about 20 percent of the land area — covering around 7.5 million square miles — experienced moderate or greater concentrations of the soot released by wildfires at some point during July." wapo.st/4pPG5Eu

How a ‘perfect storm’ spread fire, heat and smoke across the Northern Hemisphere

A Post analysis shows that about 20 percent of the land area — covering around 7.5 million square miles — experienced moderate or greater concentrations of the soot released by wildfires at some...

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"The global climate is around 1.4C warmer than in the pre-industrial era, amplifying the chances of the very dry, hot, windy conditions that caused the fires to spread out of control ... " insurancejournal.com/news/in…

Climate Change Made 'Fire Weather' in France, Spain More Likely

Climate change made the weather that fueled Europe's recent wildfires at least twice as likely in France and at least 20 times as likely in Spain,

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Los Angeles’ Rare Humidity Tied to Pacific Heat, Climate Change insurancejournal.com/news/we…

Los Angeles' Rare Humidity Tied to Pacific Heat, Climate Change

Los Angeles isn't the first place people think of as sultry in summer. But an unusually warm Pacific Ocean is pushing humidity to uncommon levels in a

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112 Degrees in Paris, Flames Near Bordeaux. France Can’t Go On Like This. nytimes.com/2026/07/29/opini… via @NYTOpinion

Opinion | Over 100 Degrees in Paris. Flames Near Bordeaux. France Can’t Go On Like This.

The frightening heat and wildfires this summer should be an impetus to those in charge to reckon with how quickly the risks are changing.

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Congress Budgeted Billions for Big Transit Projects. Trump Isn’t Spending It. nytimes.com/2026/07/27/upsho… via @NYTimes

Congress Budgeted Billions for Big Transit Projects. Trump Isn’t Spending It.

“It’s hard to look at the last year and see anything other than a deliberate slowdown of these grants.”

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"Scientists say these conditions have been made more extreme by climate change." ft.com/content/e5bf56e2-9ad1… via @ft

‘Violent’ wildfires rage close to French and Spanish cities

The two countries evacuate about 335,000 people as minister calls blazes ‘the most aggressive’ Spain has ever suffered

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States Are Reinventing How They Finance Infrastructure governing.com/infrastructure…

States Are Reinventing How They Finance Infrastructure

State financing authorities are taking on new roles, helping local governments plan, manage and pay for major infrastructure investments—not just borrow money.

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"Much of Europe has relatively little air conditioning, but not for ideological reasons: until now, it hasn’t been needed." ft.com/content/cbeea953-1162… via @ft

It’s time for Europe to embrace air conditioning

More frequent hot summers will harm productivity and claim lives

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More than 2,700 deaths linked to UK heatwaves ft.com/content/bdbac7c0-e963… via @ft

More than 2,700 deaths linked to UK heatwaves

For the first time on record, temperatures of 35C or higher had been recorded in May, June and July of the same year in UK

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Climate Models Become More Precise Even as Political Attacks Sharpen insurancejournal.com/news/na…

Climate Models Become More Precise Even as Political Attacks Sharpen

As back-to-back heat waves batter the US and Europe, scientific models linking climate change to extreme weather are increasingly important for

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"Europe’s bank watchdog will look at how exposed lenders are to heat-related risks, as temperature records keep getting broken." Read more reporting: insurancejournal.com/news/in…

Banks' Exposure to Heat-Related Losses Faces Scrutiny in EU

Europe's bank watchdog will look at how exposed lenders are to heat-related risks, as temperature records keep getting broken. The European Banking

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World Bank drops climate finance target under US pressure giftarticle.ft.com/giftartic… via @financialtimes
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