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Protecting communities, preserving nature and building resiliency: how first-of-its-kind climate insurance will help combat the costs of wildfires, extreme heat, and floods

This report provides a forward-looking approach to increasing investment in community mitigation, particularly for nature-based approaches that reduce long-term risks by increasing investment in forests, seagrasses, and other natural systems that can lower either the probability of a disaster occurring or reduce losses when it does occur. Such mitigatio…
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With extreme weather events and other disasters on the rise, how well are Americans prepared?

… Powerful storms ,  wildfires ,  heat waves  and other extreme climate-related events are … two-thirds live in places that experienced a multiday heat wave. In an  April Pew Research Center survey , half of …
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After the storms have passed: Rebuilding with climate change in mind

… more frequent droughts, higher temperatures, more frequent heat waves, and extreme precipitation —are “almost certain to … trains for fear that rails would buckle in the intense heat. As temperatures climbed to close to 120 degrees, … systems, furthermore, may struggle to accommodate extreme heat. In June of this year, as a result of record high …

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