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Meteorologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have issued a bleak forecast for 2024’s hurricane season, which runs June 1 to Nov. 30. The most devastating hurricanes cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damages and can greatly impact the financial markets....

Putting a price on planet damage isn’t always easy, but a pair of new reports together peg the value of the Earth’s major coral reef systems at upward of $1 trillion, with the endangered Great Barrier Reef alone worth about $42 billion. The reports, one by the United Nations Educational...

The West Coast/California drought has finally ended, with Gov. Jerry Brown lifting the drought emergency in most parts of California, barring a few San Joaquin Valley counties. Does this mark the all clear for investors in the agriculture sector? Not necessarily. Let's take a look at performance of...

Johnson Rice analyst John Rowan doesn’t believe Hurricane Matthew will have any lasting impact on natural gas prices, which have been on fire since bottoming back in March. On Friday, Rowan told Benzinga that he’s as bullish as ever on gas prices in the wake of Matthew. Rowan explained...

The latest data from TickerTags indicates that the unusually high number of severe weather events in the South and Southwest could end up having an impact on the bottom lines of a number of companies. Social media has been buzzing about hail damage, which is good news for some companies and bad...

In a report published Monday, Macquarie analyst Amit Kumar discussed the 2015 Atlantic Hurricane season, noting that a decade has passed since a land-falling Florida hurricane has struck. "To give you some perspective of how much time has elapsed since then, SPX was trading at 1248 at year...

Despite many news channels and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reassuring the public that this winter will be warmer, do not sell your shovels and sleds. The Farmers’ Almanac is predicting another winter cursed with below-average temperatures. Image Credit...

Much of the east coast was hoping to hear that the 2013 hurricane season would be tame but according to a report released by Colorado State University and sponsored by the National Hurricane Center, that isn’t likely to be the case. The report calls for an “extremely active” season with 13 to...