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But worsening cost trends, unanticipated investments, and pricier-than-expected mitigation efforts from moving to its new coding standard, called V28, remain potential roadblocks.

Authorities in Indian capital Delhi unsuccessfully carried out a cloud seeding trial, which is the science of altering clouds to make rains, to tackle the city's worsening air pollution on Tuesday.

This week, UPS said External link it cut 48,000 employees and Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs, worsening concern that the labor market could start to deteriorate because momentum in hiring has stalled.

This means storm surges happen on top of already elevated sea levels, worsening coastal flooding.

Dr Green said modern architectural trends are worsening resilience and the move from traditional jalousie windows with slats to fixed glass can leave buildings more exposed.