Leslie Kaufman
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Glut of Plastic Polluting World’s Oceans Is Growing Fast: Research
There are more than 170 trillion tiny plastic particles — or 2 million tons of them — floating on the surface of the ocean, and many of them got there → Read More
How to Lower Home Insurance Premiums and Wildfire Risks
Homeowners in the US got new guidance to help them defend against increasingly frequent wildfires and associated rising insurance premiums. The Insurance → Read More
81% of Flood Insurance Policyholders Will See Rate Increases, Report Says
When the Federal Emergency Management Agency rolled out a major overhaul to its beleaguered National Flood Insurance Program last April, it promised that → Read More
Rates to Rise for Millions of Homeowners Under National Flood Insurance Program
The federal government Friday rolled out a flood-insurance program revamped to reflect worsening climate change, a program that will raise rates for → Read More
Millions Risk Losing Homeowners Insurance in Fire-Ravaged California
A California moratorium guaranteeing insurance in wildfire-threatened areas lapsed Saturday, putting 347,000 homes in Pasadena and other Los Angeles → Read More
Q&A: New Director Criswell Prepares FEMA for a Hot, Chaotic Future
Deanne Criswell, the first woman to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in April took over a 20,000-person operation exhausted by managing → Read More
Tropical Storm Nicholas to Test Post-Harvey Houston Infrastructure
On Aug. 25, the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Harvey, which dumped about 50 inches of rain on Houston, Mayor Sylvester Turner announced that the city → Read More
Ida’s Inland Path May Reveal Hidden Risk, Test Mapping Methods of Hurricane Floods
With remnants of Ida delivering downpours and fierce winds from North Carolina to New Jersey, U.S. government methods for assessing flood risks may be put → Read More
Why Snow, Hail and Wildfire Are Expensive for Insurance Industry
If you're having trouble wrapping your mind around the spree of natural catastrophes currently plaguing the world—from deadly July floods in Germany and → Read More
FEMA Knows About Trying to Build Back Better Infrastructure
Lawmakers in Washington are gearing up for the Biden administration's first major legislative challenge: a set of measures on long-term economic → Read More
Tracking Tool Spotlights Repetitive Flood Loss Homes Receiving U.S. Taxpayer Funds
Passaic County in New Jersey is not in the hurricane belt nor is it on the banks of a major river, and yet 810 properties there received $170 million of → Read More
Plastic Pollution in Oceans Expected to Triple by 2040
The annual flow of plastics into our oceans is on a trajectory to triple over the next 20 years, which could add up to 110 pounds of plastic trash for → Read More
Government-Produced Flood Maps May Have Underestimated Properties at Risk
First Street Foundation, a nonprofit agency, is making accurate climate change-adjusted flood scores available for every property in the U.S. today. There → Read More
How to Manage Two Disasters at Same Time
On March 5, Tennessee governor Bill Lee announced the state's first confirmed case of Covid-19. Three weeks later on Easter Sunday, tornadoes touched down → Read More
How Draining the Reservoir Can Help Mitigate Flooding
Persistent rains have been pounding the Southeast, and a week ago, the Pearl River in Jackson, Mississippi, spilled over its banks, submerging a dozen → Read More