Although pieces of the analysis include degrees of uncertainty, researchers said trends show climate change increased the likelihood of the fires.

The recent Los Angeles wildfires are only the latest reminder that banks need to steel themselves against climate change both in their portfolios and in their own businesses.

Climate change caused by human activity increases the risk of devastating fires, like the ones in Los Angeles, California,according to the World Weather Attribution (WWA) network. The fires left at least 29 dead and thousands homeless.

A quick scientific study finds that human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires.

Global warming caused mainly by burning of fossil fuels made the hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the recent deadly fires around Los Angeles about 35 times more likely to occur, an international team of scientists concluded in a rapid attribution analysis released Tuesday.

For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources.

A new attribution analysis found that climate heating caused by burning fossil fuels significantly increased the likelihood of extreme fire conditions.

Global warming intensified conditions that fueled one of city’s worst disasters, scientists say - Anadolu Ajansı

The post How Climate Risks Could Affect Property Taxes in Florida, California, and Elsewhere appeared first on Real Estate News & Insights | realtor.com®.

The potential risks from a major wildfire have been well known for years, but there was little appetite to solve those problems before disaster struck.

Opinion: "Put simply, China and Hong Kong, like the rest of the world, are still going in the wrong direction," write John Barkdull and Paul G. Harris.