Climate Physical Risk
Cuts · 2026-11-02 · 124 candidates
Every candidate the editor considered for this edition, by the stage it left at. Flag anything you would have run; the editor reads flags at the start of its next run.
Read, not kept 1
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DOGE cuts cost tribes $470M, gutting funding for climate projects read; the $468m Brookings tally is mostly canceled energy grants (Kotzebue wind, Hopi solar); resilience share not quantified, weak physical-risk fit
Not shortlisted 36
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Tony Sharps obituary obituary of a community-farm worker; out of scope (carried from 2026-11-01)
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'Fascinating' rare beetle found in Wales again after 60 years wildlife rediscovery; out of scope (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Spill from vandalised home oil tank kills 13 birds local oil spill; out of scope (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Oil tank vandalism results in waterfowl park 'nightmare' local oil spill; out of scope (carried from 2026-11-01)
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'Rok' solid recognition for Slovenian space scientist asteroid naming; out of scope (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Aquarium shark that helped 'dispel myths' dies aquarium animal obituary; out of scope (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Rhino siblings celebrate first birthday with cake zoo animal feature; out of scope (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Sustainable photoelectrochemical lithium extraction mediated by self-regulated potential research or correction outside physical risk (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Carbonation of silicate minerals contributes to atmospheric CO2 drawdown in glacier-fed streams research or correction outside physical risk (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Solar-operated interlayer electrothermal evaporator enabling instant high-flux freshwater production across multiple scenarios research or correction outside physical risk (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Using open-weight models to investigate human-driven changes in hydrology research or correction outside physical risk (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Unforced Variations: Nov 2026 monthly open thread, excluded by the source note (carried from 2026-11-01)
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A Fledgling Fishery Hopes to Turn the Tide on Whale-Safe Gear food-industry or safety story outside physical risk (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Food, farming and community take center stage at Investigate Midwest storytelling event food-industry or safety story outside physical risk (carried from 2026-11-01)
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The EPA is quietly killing its web archive EPA web archive deletion; no physical-risk decision (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Using AI to Plan Backcountry Trips Is Getting People Into Big Trouble backcountry safety and AI trip planning; no climate hazard at its center (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Every Day Is Halloween For This Very Strange Fish wildlife feature; out of scope (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Shipping Strikes In Hormuz Leave Both Sides With Economic Pain Hormuz shipping strikes are war risk, no weather or climate cause (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Taiwan Says China Harassing Shipping With East Coast Patrol Taiwan coast guard patrol; geopolitical, out of scope (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Rural Charms Drew Residents to Taylor, Texas. Then Came the Data Centers. data-center growth in rural Texas; land-use and local politics, no hazard or physical-risk angle (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Rethinking the outage map for a multi-hazard world sponsored-style essay on outage maps; no event, number or decision
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Iran’s IRGC Navy Says Four Tankers Catch Fire In Strait Of Hormuz Hormuz tanker fires are war risk, no weather or climate cause (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Leadenhall Capital Partners gets ILS fund loss portfolio transfer from RiverStone ILS fund loss portfolio transfer; capital-markets housekeeping, not catastrophe pricing or capacity
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Gallagher Re to automate binder exposure data cleaning for cat modelling with Scrub AI partnership broker data-tooling partnership; no pricing or capacity change
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Swiss Re focused on maintaining a strong, well-diversified portfolio as APAC risk landscape shifts: Ziswiler executive interview on APAC portfolio; no decision or number
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Howden Re urges insurers to combine catastrophe models with independent risk analysis broker commentary on cat models; no decision or number
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More rain is forecast for southern Colorado, elevating flood risk for some areas rain forecast for flood-hit southern Colorado; a projection with no toll yet, follow-up to archived flood stories (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Verdict delayed on controversial sea defences council defers decision on 17 rock groynes; process news without an outcome
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Exclusive: Most voters believe climate change threatens the American Dream opinion poll on climate and the American Dream; ranked below the Grist housing piece it accompanies
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Potential FEMA restructuring raises questions for Kentucky disaster aid - WKYT same WKYT FEMA restructuring piece read and not kept on 2026-11-01; no new fact
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Potential FEMA restructuring raises questions for Kentucky disaster aid - KOLN | Nebraska Local News, Weather, Sports | Lincoln, NE syndicated copy of the WKYT FEMA restructuring piece not kept on 2026-11-01
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How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine federal science funding cuts; broad, no specific physical-risk decision in the description (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Introducing Berkeley Earth’s Data Pipeline 2.0 data-pipeline announcement; no new finding (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Closing the climate–economics communication gap comment piece; no finding (carried from 2026-11-01)
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A new film looks at people with deep connections to the Colorado River – and why their futures are at stake film feature; no development (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Drowned California Halloween fiction piece on the blog; no event or finding (carried from 2026-11-01)
Deprioritized 65
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‘Bunch of baloney’: calls grow for Cop summit reforms as countries on track to fail nature targets deprioritize: biodiversity negotiations (Cop17) that do not change how physical risk is financed (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Conservatives like me embrace conservation. Why the Coalition’s chainsaw approach to climate? | Andrew McLachlan opinion and commentary; Australian climate politics
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COP17 Biodiversity Talks in Yerevan, Armenia deprioritize: climate negotiations; COP17 biodiversity talks with no change to physical-risk finance (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Do Animals Grieve? animal behaviour feature; no physical-risk angle
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Disneyland’s Autopia Ride Will Switch to Electric Vehicles vehicle emissions item; energy transition without physical risk
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Why Did Snakes Lose Their Legs? And 9 More Animal Mysteries animal-science listicle; no physical-risk angle
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COP17: Key outcomes agreed at the UN biodiversity conference in Yerevan deprioritize: climate negotiations; COP17 biodiversity outcomes (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Countries agree to step up to save nature but funding and action still short deprioritize: COP17 biodiversity negotiations; no change to how physical risk is financed or insured (carried from 2026-11-01)
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The Amazonian Community That Beat Big Oil Is Sharing Its Secrets deprioritize: Indigenous resistance to oil extraction; no physical-risk angle (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Will Josh Shapiro’s Data Center Past Haunt his Political Future? deprioritize: state politics of data centers, unrelated to physical risk (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Pennsylvania’s Grand Canyon landscape image of the week; no hazard
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Bute House protested by environmental campaigners deprioritize: fossil-fuel protest, climate politics (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Woman who flew with swans warns of lead danger lead ammunition law; no physical-risk angle
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Marsh reveals plans to become first international broker to provide captive insurance services in Bahrain captive insurance services in Bahrain; unrelated to catastrophe
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SRA launches AI handbook to guide reinsurance sector AI handbook for reinsurers; unrelated to physical risk
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PwC adds Nick Wilks as UK Insurance Leader, succeeding Alex Bertolotti executive appointment
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Willis Re completes BMS Re US acquisition broker acquisition; corporate news without a pricing or capacity effect
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Corgi Insurance names First Insurance co-founder Josh LaRiccia as Head of Distribution executive appointment at a commercial carrier
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FEDS Note: Treasury Issuance and Dealer Balance Sheets deprioritize: Treasury market note without climate content (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Can Home Visits Re-Engage Chronically Absent Students? Evidence from the LEAP Program -- by Eric Brunner, Shangyue Jiang, Stephen Ross NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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Unraveling the Cobweb of Global Imbalances: Drivers, Vulnerabilities and Adjustment Scenarios -- by Stefan Avdjiev, Kristin Forbes, Tsvetelina Nenova, Marjorie Santos NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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Affirmative Action, Faculty Productivity and Caste Interactions: Evidence from Engineering Colleges in India -- by Robert W. Fairlie, Saurabh Khanna, Prashant Loyalka, Gagandeep S. Sachdeva NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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Saving for the Machines -- by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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Income Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility in Russia: Trends, Sources, and Measurement -- by Kristina Butaeva, Steven N. Durlauf, Dmitry Rudenko NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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Public R&D and the Automation of Manufacturing: Evidence from the Space Race -- by Apoorva Babbar, Shawn Kantor, Alexander Whalley, Jingyuan Zeng NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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Aggregate-Surplus Maximizing Monetary Policy -- by David Baqaee, Ariel Burstein, Joao Guerreiro NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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The Effects of Monetary Policy on Macroeconomic Expectations: High-Frequency Evidence from Prediction Markets -- by Eric T. Swanson, Wang Renxuan, Yanbin Wu NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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Pollution Monitoring and the Pricing of Environmental Risk in Firms -- by Namrata Kala, Jalal Sani, Nemit Shroff, Pengdong Zhang pollution-risk pricing; environmental, not physical climate risk
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A Beckerian Theory of Taxation -- by Margaret Chen, Mikhail Golosov, Ilia Krasikov NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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Coase Meets Negishi: Property Rights, Welfare Weights, and Distributional Consequences in Climate Economics -- by Simon F. Lang, Matthew D. Gordon, Matthew J. Kotchen climate welfare-weights theory; no physical-risk finding
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Governance Regimes, Economic Mobility, and the Composition of Public Investment: Evidence from the Democratization of Villages in India -- by Andrew D. Foster, Mark R. Rosenzweig NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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Risk and Return in Government Bonds -- by Matteo Leombroni, Carolin Pflueger, Adi Sunderam NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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How Different are Different Differences-in-Differences? A Large-Scale Meta-Analysis -- by Peter Hull NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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The Global Office: How Globalisation’s Frontier is Shifting from Factories to Offices -- by Richard Baldwin NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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Manufacturing Renaissance Meets Time-Inconsistent Tariffs -- by Christoph Boehm, Andrei A. Levchenko, Wei Xiang NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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Fixed/Floating Interest Rate Parity -- by Matthias Fleckenstein, Sven Klingler, Francis A. Longstaff NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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Coordinated R&D Programs and the Creation of New Industries -- by Daniel P. Gross, Maria P. Roche NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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What Drives Censorship on College Campuses? -- by Peter Arcidiacono, Cory Dowd, Matthew Lilley NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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Demand-Driven Inflation -- by Domenico Giannone, Giorgio Primiceri NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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Beyond the Numbers: Professional Forecasters’ Narratives about Inflation and Stock Market Performance -- by Christian Conrad, Julius Theodor Schoelkopf, Michael Weber, Frank Brueckbauer NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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Green Tastes, Beliefs, and Portfolios: Evidence from Synthetic Investors -- by Xindi He, Lubos Pastor green investor tastes; ESG, not physical risk
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Universities as Incubators of Mass Uprising -- by Sultan Mehmood, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak NBER working paper outside physical climate risk
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Off-grid data centers have 60-80% higher emissions deprioritize: energy transition or emissions without a physical-impact angle (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Convergence of Financial Performance deprioritize: farm policy, finance or trade without a weather or climate cause (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Smaller Loans Drive Decline in Non-Real Estate Farm Lending at Commercial Banks in Q3 2026 deprioritize: farm policy, finance or trade without a weather or climate cause (carried from 2026-11-01)
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The 45Z Biofuel Tax Credit, Part 4: Inside the Updated USDA Feedstock Carbon Intensity Calculator deprioritize: farm policy, finance or trade without a weather or climate cause (carried from 2026-11-01)
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The 2026 ARC/PLC Decision: ARC-CO vs PLC deprioritize: farm policy, finance or trade without a weather or climate cause (carried from 2026-11-01)
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US-Mexico Cattle Trade and Beef Markets deprioritize: farm policy, finance or trade without a weather or climate cause (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Osage Nation speeds up orphan well cleanup as federal oversight recedes orphan oil-well cleanup; pollution and energy, no physical-risk angle
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How the biggest renewable energy project in US history finally got built deprioritize: renewable energy build-out without a physical-risk angle (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Redfin Celebrates 250 Years of American History Through the Places We Call Home deprioritize: housing-market or rate story without a hazard angle (carried from 2026-11-01)
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U.S. Home-Sale Prices Just Fell for the First Time in 3 Years deprioritize: housing-market or rate story without a hazard angle (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Fed Holds Rates Steady, But Sets Up a December Hike deprioritize: housing-market or rate story without a hazard angle (carried from 2026-11-01)
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The Holiday Season Is the Best Time For Homebuyers to Score a Deal in These 7 U.S. Metros deprioritize: housing-market or rate story without a hazard angle (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Mortgage Rates Dip as AI Jitters Boost Bonds Ahead of Fed Decision, GDP Data deprioritize: housing-market or rate story without a hazard angle (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Utilities need to become project developers. Are they ready? utility load growth; energy transition without physical risk
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Why more inventory won’t fix your supply chain’s fill rate supply chain management advice; no hazard angle
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Context changes everything: what supplier contracts reveal about supply chain performance procurement advice; no hazard angle
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AIT Worldwide acquires Australia’s Connor Anderson forwarder acquisition press release; no hazard angle
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News in Brief Podcast | Week 43 | Reliability, rates and port fee delay deprioritize: container reliability and rates podcast without a weather cause (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Pakistan LNG Cargo Attacked Near Hormuz Had Iranian Approval attack on LNG carrier near Hormuz; security, not climate
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EU Retreats From Arctic Oil Ban Language In Strategy Draft deprioritize: EU Arctic oil policy; energy politics without a physical-risk angle (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Venture Global Begins Supplying Plaquemines Customers Under Long-Term LNG Contracts deprioritize: LNG contract deliveries; energy trade without a physical-risk angle (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Russia Extends Ban On Most Diesel Exports Through January deprioritize: Russian diesel export ban, trade without a climate cause (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Best of Artemis, week ending November 1st 2026 weekly most-read roundup; coverage of coverage
Repeats 14
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SafePoint raises Nature Coast Re 2026-2 cat bond target again to $650m repeat of 2026-10-30-safepoint-nature-coast-re-600m-cat-bond; target raised $50m more, no material new fact
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San Juan River now forecast to rise 4 feet higher than 1911 historic flood in Pagosa Springs repeat of 2026-11-01-san-juan-forecast-crest-above-1911-pagosa-evacuations, kept 2026-11-01; no new fact
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Preparing for the storm repeat of 2026-10-28-california-flood-panel-state-mapping-insurance (same Securing California's Flood Future report) (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Polis requests $27 million in federal aid for southern Colorado floods repeat of 2026-10-31-colorado-polis-27m-federal-flood-aid-request, kept in run 2026-10-31T2107; no new fact (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Isaias FEMA aid and Thanksgiving dining in Pensacola's top stories - Pensacola News Journal Pensacola roundup on Isaias aid; repeat of 2026-10-31-isaias-individual-aid-eight-florida-counties (carried from 2026-11-01)
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FEMA denies individual aid to hurricane victims - Honolulu Star-Advertiser repeat of 2026-11-01-fema-denies-individual-aid-hawaii-hurricane-victims, kept 2026-11-01; no new fact
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Typhoon Dujuan: in a warming climate even well-prepared nations remain vulnerable to worsening climate extremes repeat of 2026-10-28-wwa-typhoon-dujuan-rainfall-attribution (carried from 2026-11-01)
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September 2026 Temperature Update repeat of 2026-10-23-berkeley-earth-2026-record-year-el-nino (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Atmospheric stabilization of the East Antarctic ice sheet under warming repeat of 2026-10-30-east-antarctic-ice-sheet-snowfall-offsets-loss (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Reversal of Antarctic Intermediate Water trends triggered by sea ice decline repeat of 2026-10-28-antarctic-sea-ice-loss-saltier-intermediate-water (carried from 2026-11-01)
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EEA welcomes the Climate Resilience Framework and launches new tools to help Europe prepare repeat of 2026-10-27-eu-climate-resilience-framework-insurance-alliance; EEA tools add no new fact (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Climate change is killing the plants of Uluṟu‑Kata Tjuṯa: Aṉangu traditional owners are concerned repeat of 2026-10-27-uluru-hot-drought-plant-dieback-study; traditional owners' reaction, no new finding (carried from 2026-11-01)
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Northern Territory water plan condemned as ‘blatant and shameless’ attack on nature repeat of 2026-11-01-northern-territory-bill-deletes-environmental-water, kept 2026-11-01; no new fact
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DAILY DIGEST, weekend edition: Water Board adopts major overhaul to state water policy, drawing critics; Could El Niño trigger an ‘ARkStorm?’ California’s flood risk explained; Tehachapi water board reaffirms support for Delta Conveyance project despite growing concerns; Recent ding against Merced subbasin’s previously OK’d groundwater plan has managers on alert; and more … digest leads on the Bay-Delta overhaul, repeat of 2026-10-30-bay-delta-plan-adopted-voluntary-agreements; rest procedural (carried from 2026-11-01)
Collapsed into another candidate 4
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Oil tank vandalism results in waterfowl park 'nightmare' same item in BBC / Science and Environment (bbc:science-and-environment:2)
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'Rok' solid recognition for Slovenian space scientist same item in BBC / Science and Environment (bbc:science-and-environment:3)
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Bute House protested by environmental campaigners same item in BBC / Science and Environment (bbc:science-and-environment:4)
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Potential FEMA restructuring raises questions for Kentucky disaster aid - WKYT same item in Google News / FEMA disaster aid (google-news:fema-disaster-aid:1)
Kept 4
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Texas Farm Bureau returns to renew cat bond with $250m Fish Pond Re 2026-1 read; cat bond with full terms showing softer pricing
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European Windstorms Austen and Boelo to cause hundreds of millions in insured losses, says Aon read; first loss estimate for Austen and Boelo, a new fact on archived storms
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The American Dream wasn’t built for climate change read; insurance and home-value data in exposed places
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Cryosphere faces permanent damage when world overshoots 1.5C, scientists warn read; UN-backed cryosphere report with numbers, the day's trend lead
Sources 37
| Source | Items | Duplicates | Kept | Sole source |
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| Reinsurance News / All | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grist / All | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Artemis / All | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| The Guardian / Climate crisis | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| NBER / New working papers | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| BBC / Science and Environment | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| gCaptain / All | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New York Times / Climate | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| farmdoc daily / All | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Google News / FEMA disaster aid | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Redfin / News | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Inside Climate News / All | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nature / Nature Water | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Colorado Sun / Water | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nature / Nature Climate Change | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mother Jones / Environment | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Utility Dive / News | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Supply Chain Dive / News | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Loadstar / All | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| California WaterBlog / All | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Berkeley Earth / All | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Guardian / Farming | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Carbon Brief / All | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Financial Times / Climate Capital | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NASA Earth Observatory / All | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Federal Reserve / FEDS Notes | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nature / Nature Reviews Earth and Environment | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Climate Brink / All | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| RealClimate / All | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FERN / All | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Investigate Midwest / All | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| World Weather Attribution / Studies | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| European Environment Agency / News | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Phys.org / Earth sciences | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Guardian / Water | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Maven's Notebook / All | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| KUNC / Colorado River | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |