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Add ‘Climate Hazards’ to Your Home-Buyer’s Checklist Maps and other data are now available to help buyers analyze the risks of fires, floods and other disasters when searching for a new house. Credit...Stuart Bradford June 1, 2021, 6:00 a.m. ET As global temperatures increase and sea levels rise, home shoppers are looking at more than just location, price and the number of bedrooms when exploring properties. They are also wondering about the risk of natural disaster, and what that risk might mean for a home’s value over time. It’s a question that’s long been cons...

Climate risk platform Cervest raises $30M Series A led by Draper Esprit Cervest – a startup with a platform that claims to quantify climate risk across multiple decades and threats down to the asset level – has raised a $30 million Series A round led by Draper Esprit. Previous investors Astanor Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital (Chris Sacca), and Future Positive Capital also participated in the round, and were joined by new investors UNTITLED, the venture fund of Magnus Rausing, and TIME Ventures, the venture fund of Marc Benioff. Cervest’s total funding now stands at $36.2 million. It pre...

Cervest - a startup with a platform that claims to quantify climate risk across multiple decades and threats down to the asset level - has raised a $30 million Series A round led by Draper Esprit. Previous investors Astanor Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital (Chris Sacca), and Future Positive Capital also participated in the round, and were joined by new investors UNTITLED, the venture fund of Magnus Rausing, and TIME Ventures, the venture fund of Marc Benioff.

Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee are seeking answers into whether politics trounces science after the Biden White House’s ouster of a scientist respected on both sides of the aisle from overseeing the federal government’s report on climate change.

  Share Source: AP Photo/Evan Vucci A Trump-appointed scientist who was tasked with leading the National Climate Assessment was reassigned to the U.S. Geological Survey last month, raising questions about why she was removed from her post. Now, two House Republicans are demanding answers from the White House about the scientist, Betsy Weatherhead, being pulled from overseeing the government’s report on climate change. But the White House will not say. The White House declined to say why Weatherhead, a longtime University of Colorado climate scientist who also has worked in the private sec...