Weather Risk

The microinsurance sector in Asia and Oceania has reached 271 million lives and properties covered, says Munich Re, representing a 40% annual growth rate between 2010 and 2012.

"Super Typhoon" Haiyan makes two superstorms in two years. Is this the "new normal," and is climate change to blame?

One of the strongest storms ever barrels down on the Philippines.

Many of the ills of the modern worldstarvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and diseaseare likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts.

Karen Clark & Co. issued a report on Superstorm Sandy and the Northeast's vulnerability to coastal flooding. Future storms could be even be worse, she says.

To fulfill objectives in the Obama administration's Climate Action Plan, the program will help restore coastal wetlands and Sandy impacted areas while safeguarding communities against future storms.