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Census estimates indicate that more than 300,000 people live in areas where average summer surface temperatures are hotter than 90% of the rest of Chicago, or an estimated 5 to 10 degrees warmer than the city average.
Environmental groups and farmers in Illinois and Missouri are battling authorities over their decision to build levees along the Mississippi River. While the former claim that the levees are illegal and increase their flood risk, officials claim that they are operating within the law and that the levees are needed to reduce risk.
The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake caused 398 cases of fire in 17 prefectures, including the three Tohoku prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima that suffered most from the disaster, according to a survey by the Japan Association for Fire Science and Engineering.
The Philippines, which suffered $13 billion of damage when Super Typhoon Haiyan tore through the country in 2013, is looking at defraying the costs of future calamities with catastrophe bonds, reports the Chicago Tribune. 'Among the greatest threats to the Philippine growth story is our heightened exposure to disaster risk,' said National Treasurer Roberto Tan...
Owners could qualify for government to purchase properties, reports the Chicago Tribune. Homeowners whose properties repeatedly sustain losses and are determined by FEMA to have a benefit-cost ratio of 1.0, meaning the government saves a dollar for every dollar it spends, will qualify...
'We know which cities are most at risk: Bogota, Cairo, Caracas, Dhaka, Islamabad, Istanbul, Jakarta, Karachi, Katmandu, Lima, Manila, Mexico City, New Delhi, Quito and Tehran. Los Angeles and Tokyo are prime candidates for a major quake, but they will probably survive because they are well-built — though LA could do better. New York is at greater risk than people realize.'...
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