by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 22, 2026 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
“Right now 61% of the country is in drought and that’s steadily been going up for the calendar year.We just haven’t seen too many springs where this amount of the country has been in this kind of shape.” said Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the National...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 27, 2025 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
“These disasters are not natural — they are the predictable result of continued fossil fuel expansion and political delay,” said Emeritus Professor Joanna Haigh, at Imperial College London New Delhi:Heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, and storms cost the world...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 7, 2024 | Workplace/Employee Benefits
Scientists predict the Amazon region may not fully recover moisture levels until 2026 The river port in the Amazon rainforest’s largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought drains waterways and snarls transport of grain exports and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 23, 2024 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management
Climatologists have warned for decades that events like this year’s would come to pass. Droughts in the last two decades have become much more severe and much more common. The last year — the hottest on record globally — brought Brazil’s extremes to a new level Much...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 18, 2024 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Risk Management
“We would love to do something in the drought space, that is something we are working on,” said George Richardson, director of the capital markets and investment department at the World Bank Treasury told Reuters, adding this would be most likely focussed on Africa...
