August 2019

Tsunamis are a coastal phenomenon, and New Zealand is vulnerable to local and regional tsunamis as well as tsunamis from distant trans-ocean basin earthquakes.

The many naming conventions for crops and districts in such a large and diverse country was one of the challenges faced when building the AIR Multiple-Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) Model for India.

Several factors influence hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin, but is the Saharan Air Layer one of them?

Are your U.S. coastal risk management strategies ready for increased exposure values, rising sea levels, and slower, wetter storms?

Europe is facing another intense hail season, including another significant occurrence near Munich exhibiting similarities to the 1984 event.

AIR is often asked where losses from extreme events fall on our exceedance probability (EP) curve. However, likening industry loss estimates to AIR’s published EP curve is not a valid comparison.

In a blog published earlier this year, I commented on the potential future effects of arctic amplification and noted that one of them would be an increase in wildfires.

Charles Darwin's voyage on H.M.S. Beagle is justly famous, but the subsequent achievements of that ship's captain, Robert Fitzroy, are not so well known.