Australia’s extreme weather raises insurance concerns
In this March 25, 2021, file photo, Dale Ward carries water-logged belongings out of her daughter’s home after it was flooded in Windsor, northwest of Sydney, Australia. Over recent times, Australia has endured droughts, fires, floods, even a plague of marauding mice.
In Australia, 1 in 25 properties will be effectively uninsurable by 2030, according to a recent report due to rising risks of extreme weather events. In the face of worsening wildfires, droughts, floods and cyclones, insurance companies are either pulling out of the highest risk areas or making premiums so high as to be unaffordable. And, activists take on drug gangs in the anti-establishment community of Christiana, in Copenhagen. Also, some young men in Niger’s capital Niamey, say they’re a “citizens’ watch group,” patrolling the streets to ensure that outsiders do not drive into Niamey and try to turn back the military coup. We hear why some youth are in favor of the coup. Plus, this Nicaraguan exile makes a new home in the Colorado mountains.
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