David Sherfinski

The United States has suffered a record run of hurricanes and devastating wildfires this past year, and President Donald Trump has now ordered a review of the federal department that is tasked with handling ever more natural disasters.

Trump issued an executive order dated Jan. 24 calling for a review of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is challenged by disasters that strike more frequently and powerfully in a fast-changing climate.

As climate-fuelled disasters become more frequent and intense, companies, countries and aid workers are experimenting with new models of insurance and financial help to manage growing risks and losses - among them, parametric insurance.

Parametric policies pay out a pre-agreed amount of money if certain criteria - such as an amount of rainfall or wind speed - are met, the assumption being that damage will have occurred under those conditions.

The U.S. Labour Department has moved to fast-track firefighter workers’ compensation claims involving a handful of cancers specific to women, but the policy may face an uncertain fate as President Donald Trump cuts government jobs and quashes diversity policies.

Trump is rapidly reducing the federal workforce, moving to fire thousands of employees last week from various government agencies, including the U.S. Forest Service.

Climate change is fast upending home insurance rates in the United States – almost regardless of where one lives.

In the aftermath of the Los Angeles area wildfires, California's largest private insurer requested significantly higher rates for homeowners from May as it dealt with costly claims, while there were widespread reports that insurers were dropping customers before the disaster first struck in early January.

As artificial intelligence rapidly changes the way people live, work and even think, it is the daily job of Cansu Canca to ponder the big philosophical and ethical questions surrounding the expanding deployment of AI.

To Canca's thinking, philosophy helps strengthen and steer her quest.

Climate change is quickly upending the home insurance market in the United States as well as globally and is projected to bring sweeping change in U.S. real estate values over the next 30 years, new research shows.

Although Americans still flock to climate-risky areas, the longtime trend could start to change, according to a novel report from First Street Foundation, a climate risk mapping group.

In Dima Ghawi's early career in finance and tech, she recalls companies having some form of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies that tried to increase the number of women working in certain fields.

"That was before DEI was the cool thing to do, like a few years ago," said Ghawi, who is now a leadership coach and considers herself a DEI success story.

After pouring record sums of money into the 2024 U.S. elections, the cryptocurrency industry is hopeful – if not certain – of a newly friendly reception from D.C. policymakers after what it perceived to be a hostile environment from the Biden administration.

Crypto-aligned interests pumped millions of dollars into campaigns for Donald Trump and pro-crypto candidates, hoping he and a supportive Congress would enact industry-friendly regulations after dealing with dozens of lawsuits from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under Biden.

As newly inaugurated President Donald Trump readies his immigration crackdown, his allies in his Republican Party have splintered over policies surrounding U.S. worker visas intended to go to specialty occupations like the tech industry.

The row over so-called H-1B visas is pitting Silicon Valley-aligned Trump allies like X CEO Elon Musk, who favor the program, against opponents like former White House strategist Steve Bannon, many of whom want curbs on overall immigration levels - legal and illegal - with Trump's return.

When he left prison after serving close to a decade after an armored truck robbery, Anthony Pedro found himself sleeping in his car – which, he points out, was loaned to him and didn't even run well.

While incarcerated, Pedro had been part of a firefighter and emergency response program and, once released, he found himself missing the work.