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This evaluation addresses gaps related to the catastrophe deferred drawdown option (Cat DDO). espite its growing adoption, empirical evidence on the Cat DDO’s effectiveness remains limited, particularly regarding its role in post-disaster financing.

Motivated by the recent record-breaking heatwaves over western Africa, the authors analyzed 50 years of hourly wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT) data to identify emerging heatwave hotspots, characterize their timing and types, and evaluate whether simpler

A team at the Applied Physics Lab is working to understand the complex science behind predicting invisible threats that can quickly cripple electric grid infrastructure on Earth.

Scripps Oceanography-led research effort detected signs of cliff failure hours to days before collapse.

A patchwork of government protections and company policies have left them more vulnerable.

The ocean absorbs 90 percent of the excess heat from global warming. It doesn't all stay there.

Some parts of the world, including China and the US-Mexican border, experienced record- breaking sand and dust storms in 2025, impacting health and the environment and disrupting economic activities and transport.

Weather cycle threatens harvests worldwide, adding to inflation already fuelled by the Iran war.

A new study shows the pros and cons of different model training methods.

Researchers call for urgent rethink of global hazard monitoring as "Small Alpine Lake Outbursts" emerge in a warming world.

UNICEF activated U-Report as a tool for mass communication to raise awareness and share life-saving information with young people.

This study advances multi-hazard assessment for monsoon-dominated mountain systems by moving beyond static overlays of independently modeled hazards and instead diagnosing how seasonal hazard regimes reorganize under climate change.

This study examined how personal disaster experience, community communication, and media-based disaster comparison shape farmers' risk perception and planting intentions in the Hetao Irrigation District.

A research team has uncovered a previously hidden population of so-called slow slip events beneath the Parkfield section of California’s San Andreas Fault.

This paper examines why extreme weather resilience is becoming a core priority for infrastructure investors and how it should be built into investment decisions.

Call for Papers now open! Submit your concept note by 1 September 2026 for the next editions of the PROCULTHER Technical Bulletin.

A 2019 Australian bushfire provided a rare opportunity to scientists by creating an effect analogous to what could be achieved through the geoengineering technique known as marine cloud brightening.

Simply improving building codes will not achieve effective outcomes again earthquakes without robust enforcement and adherence to retrofitting regulations says this author.

The Fijian Minister for Agriculture explains how climate change is affecting the country’s vital farming sector.

Climate change is not just threatening coastal women's incomes, but also their food security, cultural practices and social identities. Yet their voices remain largely absent from ocean governance.

Wetlands protect communities and ecosystems from flooding. A study quantifies their financial importance.

In the summer of 2021, the hills of northeastern Algeria disappeared behind walls of smoke. Wildfires swept through Béjaïa, El Tarf, and Tizi Ouzou with a speed and ferocity that overwhelmed communities and firefighters alike.

Twin earthquakes struck Venezuela on June 24, 2026, causing major damage in Caracas and a nearby coastal city, La Guaira. At the time of publication, 3,685 people have been declared dead, and more than 30,000 remain missin

The review explores the direct and indirect effects of climate change on children's learning, the mechanisms driving these impacts, and the interventions that can build resilience at individual, community, and system levels.

This working paper (No. 1048) investigates how banks adjust credit supply in response to temperature-related climate risk, using a firm-bank level panel of French single-establishment micro and SME firms from 2010 to 20

Climate Central analysis shows that residents of the 65 largest U.S. cities experience an average of 8°F of extra heat due to the built environment.

This study developed an integrated simulation framework that couples hydrodynamic inundation modeling with an agent-based traffic-rescue simulation to examine adaptive resilience in urban traffic networks under compound flood-traffic conditions.

The guide, previously published in 2023, expanded its coverage to include an analysis of anticipatory action and early warning systems and the fiscal case for pre-disaster financing.

This report examines the interlinked dynamics of fragility, food insecurity, shocks, and migration in the Northern Central America (NCA) region, composed of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

This report examines how Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge (ITK) contributes to climate resilience among iTaukei communities through sustainable natural resource management, disaster preparedness, resilient infrastructure, and food security practices.

The authors investigate how home insurance pricing affects household investment in climate adaptation.

The objective of this report is to support Malta in strengthening its resilience to disasters and other crises by providing a rapid assessment of emergency preparedness and response (EP and R) structures and capabilities.

This exploratory analysis estimates the economic value of “climate services for health”, defined as producing and applying climate knowledge to enhance health decisions and services.

This evidence-based policy guide highlights how well-designed climate actions across key sectors, including transport, energy, food systems, urban development and water, can deliver substantial and immediate health co-benefits.

The East Palestine derailment illustrates an increasingly common reality: industrial facilities and critical infrastructure systems operate within highly interconnected environments.

Biologically, women’s greater risk comes down to two things: the natural rise and fall of our hormone levels and our body's response to heat, which are different to men's, Dr Arif said.

This position paper examines how "quality" should be understood in multilingual crisis translation, arguing that textual accuracy alone is an insufficient measure of a good translation in high-stakes emergency contexts.

Over the past 15 months, one of the country’s worst marine environmental disasters has been unfolding in South Australia.

A new study suggests the world is far less likely to experience a single, planet-wide drought than previously feared.

Five years ago, British Columbia’s heat dome became one of the deadliest weather disasters in Canadian history.

A new study of groundnut farming in Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria asks: when temperatures soar, how do farmers change what they put into the ground?

An Oregon State University study found that mechanically ventilated spaces were better than window AC and mini-splits at lowering indoor particulate matter concentrations.

As people across the UK feel the effects of what could be one of the longest-lasting heatwaves since 1976, communities around the world are also suffering from periods of extreme heat.

Seeking contributions on traditional medicine, vernacular architecture, agricultural practices, clothing traditions, oral history, and other community-based knowledge related to heat prevention and management

This opinion piece argues that mistrust in Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is rooted less in misinformation than in histories of conflict, neglect and unequal care, calling for locally led, trust-based public health action.