World: SERVIR produces maps to support efforts against locust outbreak in Eastern Africa

Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:43:00 +0200reliefWeb (en)

SERVIR, a joint program between NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has partnered with relief organizations and the United Nations, to produce maps that could explain locust behavior. The maps provide useful information on environmental conditions, such as soil moisture....

Why Don’t We Know Who the Coronavirus Victims Are?

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 19:27:00 +0200newsnow-co-uk (en)

By April 1927, the Mississippi River’s rapidly rising waters burst levees in Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, inundating 26,000 square miles of land. Cash-crop production in the nation’s most prosperous agricultural region halted. Floodwaters killed upwards of 1,000 people and injured untold others.

United States: Commercial Insureds' Claims Under All-Risk Policies Following Catastrophic Storm Events - Archer & Greiner P.C.

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 06:05:00 +0100mondaq (en)

Do flood exclusions and flood sublimits bar or reduce coverage? With climate change comes extreme weather, which has led to catastrophic losses by insured businesses. Two such catastrophic weather events are Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012.