Tag: risk environment

Wildfires are Getting Worse – Geospatial Data Can Help

Antoine Rostand
Geospatial Data and wildfires

How Wildfires Are Transforming America’s Landscape As I write this, fires burn in the north-eastern United States. More than 500 wildfires have broken out in New Jersey alone this autumn, and in recent weeks there have been fires in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, too. A 5,000-acre fire has been burning for over a week on the New York border. And that’s just one region, in one country. I could mention Portugal or Australia, California or Greece. This isn’t normal. Wildfires are getting worse. Why? Because of climate change. Thanks to global…

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Insurance companies have halted cargo coverage for Ukrainian grain

Nordstrom
Insurance companies - Grains

Insurers have withdrawn their coverage products for shipments of grain leaving Ukraine. Insurance companies have put a stop to the coverage they were providing to cargo shipments from Ukraine through a safe corridor backed by the UN after Russia announced the suspension of its participation, according to industry sources and recent media reports. The export deal between Russia and Ukraine in July was intended to ease a global hunger crisis. The July export deal was brokered by the United Nations and Turkey to ease the world hunger crisis that was…

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