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Analysis of more than 36,000 buildings affected by the January Victorian bushfires shows why broad hazard assessments alone cannot reveal the vulnerability of individual properties.

This study shows how nature-based solutions help residents of an informal settlement in Fiji adapt to growing climate risks. Located in a coastal area, the community faces recurring flooding, sea-level rise, extreme heat, and variable rainfall.

This report documents an integrated DRR field mission conducted by the GRMI in Katcha Ward, Niger State, on 10 July 2026. The mission combined agricultural support with geospatial flood risk assessment to better understand the exposure of rice farmers.

Environment Agency says talks under way about increasing prices for industrial users to try to reduce poor water management

This guidance note provides a framework for evaluating whether climate and disaster risk models are fit for climate and disaster risk financing decisions, covering model transparency, hazard, exposure, vulnerability, loss and uncertainty assessment.

This report examines how extreme heat is affecting women informal workers in Thailand. Based on surveys, workshops and focus groups, it finds major impacts on health, income and livelihoods, and highlights locally identified resilience solutions.

Two smoke-damage bills awaiting the governor’s signature address a longstanding issue brought to the fore by the Los Angeles County fires: When is it safe for wildfire survivors to move back into their homes?

This case study explores how climate-related mobility and flood risk intersect in Dakar, highlighting community-based disaster risk reduction, nature-based solutions, flood governance reforms and lessons for evidence-based planning.

This case study explores community-based responses to climate mobility in Moundou, Chad, highlighting water management committees, mediation training and women-led initiatives that strengthened social cohesion, conflict prevention and resilience.

Subsidised power is tackling energy poverty and health risks for some of northern Mexico’s most vulnerable city dwellers.

This practitioner’s brief synthesises lessons from GIZ’s Global Programme on Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change and provides recommendations on governance, data, financing, rights-based approaches and cross-regional learning.

New analysis from Ordnance Survey has found more than eight in ten cities in Great Britain are already highly vulnerable to urban heat islands, and almost two thirds are set to reach severe heat vulnerability by the turn of the century.

This paper calls for a shift from Bridge Management Systems to Bridge Resilience Systems, integrating disaster governance, critical infrastructure, climate risk, ecosystem management and connectivity to protect essential functions during disruption.

Amid surging demand for flood defense solutions, the company secured the No. 63 spot overall in the United States, while placing No. 2 nationwide among manufacturing companies and No. 8 among all Florida-based businesses.

This case study examines the current state of the heat early warning system in Pakistan, including how heat risk is understood and monitored, and how warnings are issued, communicated, and acted upon across institutions.

This report documents how the Urban Climate Resilience Program strengthened extreme heat resilience in Greater Western Sydney through community action, applied research, policy influence and cross-sector partnerships from 2023 to 2026.

New AI model detects solar storm warning signs nearly nine hours before the underlying activity becomes visible on the Sun’s surface, a breakthrough that could give satellite operators and power grid companies time to prepare for incoming space weather.

This case study examines the current state of Senegal’s heat early warning system, including how heat risk is understood and monitored, and how warnings are issued, communicated and acted upon across institutions.

This study examines community-based disaster management in Chandpur, Bangladesh, identifying six capacity-building initiatives and 13 governance- and society-driven challenges affecting sustainable community resilience.

This paper develops an Adaptive AI-Enabled Drought Risk Reduction Framework, showing how AI can improve drought governance, water allocation and anticipatory decision-making when supported by trusted institutions and reliable data.

This article compares typhoon communication in the Philippines and Vietnam, showing how political structures, corruption, propaganda and media control shape disaster visibility, often prioritising regime preservation over public safety.

The Nepal-Tibet floods highlight urgent gaps in monitoring Himalayan snow and glaciers. The article calls for improved observation, early warning systems, cross-border cooperation and community-led adaptation to reduce future flood and drought risks.

EU wildfire prepositioning places firefighters in high-risk countries during fire season, enabling joint training, operational readiness, cross-border cooperation. In 2026, ~800 firefighters from 14 countries deployed to support wildfire preparedness.

Malawi faces significant economic and food security risks from overlapping El Niño impacts and Iran war fuel and fertilizer price shocks, a modeling exercise shows.

This article investigates forces shaping what becomes visible during typhoon disasters across contrasting regime types and develops a model examining how political structures and propaganda machinery determine information flows when disasters strike

This updated Disaster Management Reference Handbook provides a comprehensive picture of Fiji’s disaster management architecture, socioeconomic vulnerabilities, hazard profile, and logistical infrastructure.

New research finds that large-scale weather patterns explain much of the year-to-year variation in northern India’s winter air pollution and may make seasonal forecasts of severe air pollution possible.

This study examines nine case studies across the Mediterranean to analyse different mechanisms that contribute to institutional mainstreaming of nature-based solutions (NbS) for climate resilience in urban and peri-urban areas.

This landscape report examines how misinformation, disinformation and other forms of information pollution are affecting climate action and responses to climate-related disasters, and how different actors are responding.

Using social media and meteorological data, this study quantifies the mismatch between physical heat exposure and public emotional responses from 2010 to 2024 in China.

This article examines information control after a deadly Himalayan flood, comparing Nepal’s response to misinformation with China’s wider suppression of public scrutiny

By analysing global subnational net migration data, this study shows that associations between climate extremes and migration vary by hazard type, timing, consecutive events, income level and pre-existing migration context.

Combining Global Fire Atlas records with Afrobarometer surveys of more than 100,000 people in 34 African countries, this study shows that people living close to wildfires are more likely to vote, contact local councillors and attend community meetings.

This study assesses earthquake-related tsunami hazard across the Anguilla bank through numerical simulations of selected seismic rupture scenarios.

This paper examines the relationship between climate risks and education through a systems lens, combining evidence on impacts with an analysis of policy frameworks and implementation constraints.

As the planet heats up, permafrost, wildfires, wetlands, and freshwaters are starting to release greenhouse gases of their own—on top of everything human activity and infrastructure already emit—driving up global temperatures.

This policy brief draws on a mixed-methods study comprising a national survey of 1,097 adults in England and semi-structured interviews with 29 heat risk communicators.

Residents in predominantly Hispanic communities in Florida are paying on average $5,014 more annually for their policies, a new report says.

The central north Amazon, with extensive areas of high forest cover, natural savannas and vast and important indigenous territories, was not previously considered as being the most affected by climate change.

Communities choosing to stay on their ancestral lands rather than engaging in climate-related planned relocation offer an important perspective—one that recentres cultural security as fundamental to climate security.

As what could be the strongest El Niño on record develops, families, communities and economies need to prepare for the worst. Local areas may see more intense effects than expected, or they may see different effects than in past El Niños.

Flash floods can occur within minutes after extreme rainfall, landslides or infrastructure failures. Climate change is increasing heavy rainfall, while ageing infrastructure and urban development can worsen flood impacts and raise risk.

WFP is scaling up anticipatory action across Africa, Asia and Latin America to help vulnerable communities prepare for El Niño-linked droughts, floods and hunger through cash assistance, early warnings, farming support and resilience measures.

This report compiles global best practices on industrial hazard mitigation and management, drawing lessons from major incidents, safety frameworks and international experience to strengthen risk-informed governance, preparedness, resilience and safety.