Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today
Website Maps Vanuatu Climate Change Flooding Risk
BBC
A new web tool is allowing Pacific Islanders on Vanuatu to see how rising sea levels could affect their homes and businesses over the coming years.
Bhubaneswar Working on Model to Predict Coastal Inundation
The Hindu
Research on coastal inundation assumes significance as intensity of tropical cyclones is predicted to rise even as the number of events would remain the same.
China Reports First Two Human Deaths From Bird Flu This Winter
Reuters
The Anhui cases bring the total number of people infected with the H7N9 virus in mainland China this month to at least seven.
It’s Not Just Fracking: New Database of Human-Induced Quakes
Eos
In the largest compilation of anthropogenically induced earthquakes, causes range from building water reservoirs to mining.
Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today
Beechwood Hit by Links to Firm in Fraud Case
Royal Gazette
A Bermudian reinsurance and wealth-management firm has been linked to a $1 billion fraud case in the US.
Data Scientists Making Millions Vie With Fund Managers Over Pay
Bloomberg
Portfolio managers at hedge funds have another thing to worry about: the $2 million data scientist.
The Airbnb of the Insurance Industry?
Bloomberg (video)
Companies like Friendsurance see an opportunity to innovate an industry stuck in an old-fashioned status quo with high fees and low customer satisfaction.
Chinese Insurtech Giant Zhong An Turns Its Back on a US IPO
Business Insider
Insurance companies are at risk of losing a share of this valuable market to new entrants.
