Tech Insider : Politics
Firefighters battle the Mosquito Fire
Firefighters battle the Mosquito Fire burning on Michigan Bluff Road in unincorporated Placer County, Calif., on September 7, 2022.
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Donald Trump
Former President Donald Trump.
Tech Insider : Economy
High Water sign in a flooded neighborhood
Extreme weather events are causing changes in the insurance industry.
Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A house on fire being circled by vultures while money falls from the sky
Disaster vultures are investors who take advantage of people who lost their homes to natural disasters in order to turn a profit.

As Hawaii mourns its dead, investors are swooping in to make a quick buck

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A comic strip of a house inside of a burning house unbothered
As the risk of wildfires and storms grows, owning a home is getting riskier — and it's showing up in the insurance market.

Cinda Larimer was delivering newspapers on a cool November morning in Paradise, California, when she noticed something softly float down from the sky: ash.

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An aerial view of a forest burning in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Meta began blocking access to Canada's domestic news sites on August 1.
Tech Insider : Environment
A burned cars sits among destroyed buildings in the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, western Maui, Hawaii on August 11, 2023.
A burned cars sits among destroyed buildings in the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina on August 11, 2023.
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An aerial view shows the historic Banyan Tree along with destroyed homes, boats, and buildings burned to the ground in the historic Lahaina town in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui in Lahaina, Hawaii, on August 10, 2023.
An aerial view shows the historic Banyan Tree along with destroyed homes, boats, and buildings burned to the ground in the historic Lahaina town in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui in Lahaina, Hawaii.

Gizmodo : Environment

Widespread wildfires across Canada have broken a carbon pollution record this year, a European climate monitoring agency said this week.

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