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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.

This study examines how meteorological disaster warnings influence public risk perception and protective action, showing that impact-based information and clear guidance can strengthen early warning communication.

This study examines community resilience to urban flooding in deprived areas, highlighting how household preparedness, collective action and institutional communication shape protective behavior and flood risk management.

Global warming is increasingly shaping daily life in India through extreme heat, changing rainfall patterns, floods, and droughts. But public understanding of “global warming” is not uniform.

This study proposes a methodology to characterise land degradation and desertification in the European Union

A hybrid institutional capital model could package small infrastructure resilience projects to make them attractive to institutional investors, a new research paper proposes.

Super Typhoon Bavi underwent extreme rapid intensification over exceptionally warm waters in the Pacific Ocean that were made up to 80 times more likely by climate change.

The study specifically addresses limitations in previous regional-scale flood risk assessments, which often overlook spatial variations in land subsidence and rely on simplified modelling methods in China's Greater Bay Area.

This working paper examines how the vertical integration of climate change adaptation can be strengthened, using Indonesia, Brazil and India as comparative case studies.

This brief examines key components of government-led planned relocation frameworks in Fiji, Bangladesh, and Peru, including their impacts on communities and lessons for policymakers developing and implementing similar plans.

In June 2026, daily high temperatures averaged across France reached 36.9C, shattering the previous June record set in 2022 by 2.4C.

This study examines post-disaster risk communication after the Grenfell Tower fire, arguing that acknowledging uncertainty, enabling inclusive risk assessment and applying precaution can help rebuild trust between authorities and affected communities.

Research from the University of Oxford has ranked 205 of the world's largest cities by their risk from extreme heat, identifying where people are most in danger as global temperatures rise.

A severe winter snow drought has left snowpack levels far below normal across the American West in 2026.

This study examines how social media influencers and entertainment-oriented community fan pages reframe disaster communication, showing how emotional and humorous storytelling can reshape official messages and public discourse during Typhoon Yagi

AI-driven forecasts can tell you when dangerous weather is coming. But what if you have nowhere to go?

The government has designed what it calls a "continuum of support", a two-instrument financing package that layers government resources on top of existing humanitarian delivery systems.