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Because atmospheric dust overall has a slight cooling effect on the climate, researchers say its decrease may have contributed modestly to recent climate warming.

This study evaluates opportunities to enhance the Mali Red Cross Early Action Protocol (EAP) for riverine flooding by comparing global flood forecasting systems against the country's current trigger model.

This article extends debates at the intersection of infrastructure, adaptation, and vulnerability by exploring everyday practices of climate adaptation through people’s attempts to weatherize their houses during climate-related emergencies.

The Ordnance Survey (OS) map produced by the British and Irish governments was originally used for military defence and later for outdoor recreation.

The report has been prepared upon request of the General Assembly in its resolution 80/137 on DRR, providing an overview of progress towards the goal, global targets and priorities for action of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030.

The tiny country contributes less than 0.1 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions—but is experiencing the consequences of climate change firsthand.

The interplay of water, infrastructure, and danger drives home the central lesson of disaster risk reduction: there is no such thing as a ‘natural’ disaster. A natural hazard becomes a disaster only when people are placed in its path.

Power systems remain vulnerable to natural disasters that cause widespread outages. Leveraging outage records from recent large-scale blackouts, this study establishes an empirical relationship between daily nightlight-intensity loss and power outages

A new regional platform launched in Honduras is gathering lessons on disaster preparedness, evacuation and risk management in vulnerable communities across the Northern Triangle, helping strengthen evidence-based, people-centred resilience efforts.

Study reveals a hidden problem: Temperature proxies used in many climate-impact studies can contain substantial measurement error, leading to misestimation of true impacts of temperature and, potentially understate climate impacts by at least 15%.

Recurrent floods have forced Juneau to confront a problem that communities around the world are increasingly facing: How do you prepare for a natural disaster when you know it will come back?

Hawaii’s Lahaina Fire killed over 100 people and destroyed thousands of buildings. California’s Eaton Fire triggered the evacuation of over 100,000 residents. Texas’ Smokehouse Creek Fire burned over one million acres.

Albania is strengthening its capacities to collect, manage, analyse and use disaster loss and damage data through the DELTA Resilience platform, with a technical training held in Tirana on 17 September 2026.

The devastating floods that swept through San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country in 2025 left researchers with an urgent question: What can be learned from these events to better prepare communities for the next catastrophic flood?

This report examines opportunities to strengthen community resilience through locally led climate action, with a focus on empowering local governments and communities to address climate risks while improving alignment with national climate priorities.

This report assesses how climate change is reshaping human security in the Hindu Kush Himalaya, examining risks to food, water, energy, livelihoods and mobility, and calling for integrated, regional and systemic adaptation responses.

This study provides the first global, country-level picture of future housing construction demand and its associated costs and identifies where the needs for resilient construction are most urgent.

This study examines the relationship between flood exposure, coping behavior, and vulnerability to poverty in rural Bihar, one of India’s most flood-prone regions.

Evidence shows the seismic signal was caused not by an earthquake but by the rapid collapse of about 2 km² of rock and glacier ice. The mass fell roughly 1,400 m, releasing enormous energy and generating earthquake-like seismic waves.

This brief examines both the escalating human rights crisis and the binding international legal obligations that apply as climate-driven sea level rise intensifies.

This paper presents a framework for disaster communication capacity development that combines audience research, engagement and scenario-based vulnerability analysis to address barriers to accessing, understanding and acting on hazard information.

This study advances an equity-centered approach by centering informational equity as an underexamined dimension of disaster vulnerability. Findings show informational inequities emerge from systematic misalignments across the risk communication ecosystem.

The LRP 2026 aims to respond holistically to the multiple crises facing Lebanon including residual humanitarian needs in conflict affected areas and presents an appeal of $1.62 billion to support coordinated interventions across nine sectors.

An IRDR-UNDRR webinar examined the 26 August 2026 China-Nepal flash flood, highlighting cascading transboundary risks, monitoring and data-sharing gaps, and calling for a Himalayan Monitoring Centre, FORIN study, and stronger multi-hazard risk assessment.

Following a series of major disasters and inquiries that questioned New Zealand’s capacity to deal with them, the new Emergency Management Act 2026 is the most significant improvement in more than two decades.

Stretching across much of eastern England, the Fens produce a third of the country’s vegetables and support tens of thousands of jobs. Yet around 33% of the region lies below average sea level, while 87% is below the highest spring tides

The WMO State of Global Water Resources Report shows that the water cycle has become more erratic and unpredictable, swinging between too little or too much. The past seven years have seen the fewest rivers with “normal” flows since 1991.

The WMO State of Global Water Resources report is a comprehensive science-based annual assessment of the hydrological cycle and extreme events in 2025 and over the past five years.

The greatest disconnect of the academic approach is finance. High-level adaptation funds expect neat, multi-year bankable assets. But for a household in an informal settlement, the financial reality is to enable an annual refurbishment cycle.

Four years after Jammu and Kashmir witnessed its first major outbreak of LSD, it has resurfaced in the Union Territory, with fresh cases reported from Central Kashmir and authorities stepping up surveillance, vaccination, and veterinary intervention.

The EU will launch a climate insurance alliance to increase coverage for extreme weather losses, while advancing climate resilience, heatwave early warning systems and drought risk management after a summer marked by wildfires, heatwaves and drought.

This report presents findings from a survey of 3,700 U.S. adults on disaster preparedness. Most respondents are concerned about natural disasters, but few feel very prepared, with cost identified as the leading barrier to preparedness.

United We Prepare®, a disaster preparedness initiative by United Way Worldwide, supported by Verizon, is helping to make preparedness easier, less costly, and more accessible. It provides tools and information, to prepare for disasters.

This report draws on a survey of 1,300 stakeholders assessing 28 global risks. Large-scale war, AI and frontier technologies gained prominence, while climate change inaction remained the most important global risk.

Wildfires can turn natural metals in soil into toxic, airborne particles. Stanford researchers are working to predict where these metals travel and warn people in harm’s way.

What happens if sea level rise, hurricane wind strength, or other factors turn out worse than expected? The author gives about a 90% chance that climate change will cause a net increase in Atlantic hurricane destruction over the coming 30 years.

More than 3,600 people are staying in 37 holding centres across Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading districts. No major outbreak has been reported, but cases of colds, coughs and viral fever are common.

Paper assesses 16 community resilience outcomes among flood-vulnerable people in Bangladesh. Vulnerability mapping, community participation and precautionary measures scored highest; NGO support, DRM awareness and post-disaster health safety scored lower.

The Heat Impact Assessment (HIA) Framework as a strategic instrument to strengthen heat risk management in the country.

This survey is a nationally representative survey of adults in the UK, carried out in order to understand what people think about different types of emergencies, and what steps – if any – they have taken to prepare for them

The opportunity before Africa is therefore larger than closing a protection gap. It is about creating the conditions that allow millions more people, businesses and public assets to become insurable.

This brief identifies key policy implications based on a systematic review of 49 studies covering 53 nature-based interventions across 26 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) worldwide.

Drawing on experience from Armenia, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal, these lessons explain how strategic climate diagnostics can identify priority risks and how economic, fiscal, and financial analysis can build the case for investment.

This report examines how extreme heat affects students, educators, families, and school systems and provides practical, evidence-informed guidance grounded in psychological science to help school communities respond.