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Earthquakes still arrive without warning. That is the hard truth scientists have been forced to accept, despite a decade of advances in artificial intelligence, satellite monitoring and dense seismic networks.

The world’s largest mangrove forest is sinking due to climate change, threatening millions of lives and livelihoods. Could ancient terracotta provide help?

The study is about developing and applying a remote-sensing workflow based on multispectral Sentinel-2 and PlanetScope satellite imagery to detect and monitor lakes forming on active rock glaciers in the European Alps

This booklet follows the COPE Squad as they travel from their base on Mount Emei, China, to Trinidad and Tobago to judge a lightning-safety video competition, and then to Uganda for Lightning Safety Day.

How can Latin America and the Caribbean protect their hard-won progress against poverty in the face of mounting climate hazards and a changing climate? This book provides a powerful, evidence-based answer

This paper aimed at investigating how and what type of flood hazard and risk information is used and needed to inform land-use planning decisions by focusing on the Aotearoa planningregime context.

This research presents a conceptual disaster risk and resilience framework for modelling natural hazard-induced human mobility, centring on household objective well-being as the key determinant of voluntary, involuntary, and planned movement outcomes.

This research uses a MaxEnt habitat suitability model to map morph-specific desert locust risk zones (hoppers, bands, adults, swarms) across arid and semi-arid Rajasthan, India, to guide targeted field surveillance.

This study provides the comparison of flood hazard maps and flood risk (damage) estimates derived from idealized design storms against those generated using stochastic storm transposition.

This paper outlines the Sendai Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism (SEM)’s position and priorities for 2026. SEM calls for the systematic integration of DRR across all climate policy frameworks and processes.

This policy brief provides a first entry point for governments who have endorsed or are implementing aspects of the Comprehensive School Safety Framework (CSSF) to identify potential financial resources they can access, and how to secure them.

The study is about developing a domain-adaptive approach to improve multilingual crisis communication in situations where high-quality parallel data are limited.

As part of a broader reorganization of the civil protection sector, the Cyprus Civil Defence mandated GCC and Intersec to power the new Public Warning System.

In the US, Americans are experiencing many impacts, including heat stroke due to more frequent and intense heat waves; higher rates of respiratory diseases due to air pollution; and increased exposure to food-, vector-, and water-borne diseases.

The risk of severe wildfires could be cut by reducing the dominance of a moorland grass that leaves the landscape vulnerable to outbreaks, according to researchers.

2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption showed volcanic ash can trigger global transport and supply chain disruption beyond local damage, reshaping insurance BI/CBI thinking and driving new risk modelling.

The continent with the lowest number of hot days leads the world in heat mortality. Europe’s self-inflicted aversion to air conditioning betrays a deeper hostility to energy and to progress itself.

Imagine a global political summit that shapes the future of our planet where one of the most populated countries in the world does not have a voice?

Researchers at Newcastle University have carried out the first comprehensive modelling of glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) risk in Bhutan and identified previously unrecognised high-risk lakes.

As Hurricane Irma’s path turned north, Saundra Morene was told she had to evacuate her Ribault River home on Jacksonville’s Northside. But she wasn’t worried.

This study examined the experiences of 18 residents living in flood-prone communities, particularly those relying on agriculture & small businesses. Through in-depth interviews, the research explored how repeated flooding affects people's lives & response

This publication aims to raise awareness of the growing risks and impacts of heat stress and to provide practical guidance on regulatory, policy, and technical solutions that can help reduce its adverse effects.

This briefing showcases how Europe’s small municipalities are building climate resilience despite size-related challenges. It is based on a literature review, case studies and analysis of two EU-level databases.

The objective of this report is to present an analysis of European progress towards climate resilience since 2021, with an emphasis on the state of play in 2025.

The country will have to decide which places can realistically be defended and which may ultimately have to be surrendered to a changing coastline.

The Dominican Republic has become the first country in Latin America and the Caribbean to integrate parametric insurance into its adaptive social protection system; providing rapid financial support to households when extreme rainfall or wind events occur

Moody’s finds that increasing severity and frequency of hazards, and the sunsetting of the UK reinsurance plan Flood Re in 2039, could widen public sector exposure.

This briefing paper presents key findings from a semi-quantitative climate risk assessment of Syria's urban drinking water and sanitation, intended to support the country's reconstruction efforts.

This policy brief examines the provision of water in the arid and semi-arid lands of eastern Africa, offering a different way of addressing a long-standing problem.

This report shares evidence on climate-related hazards that could worsen conflict and security risks in Yemen, in order to inform stabilisation, peacebuilding, and security interventions

This Strategic Roadmap provides a long-term framework to strengthen the leadership, capacity, and sustainability of civil society organisations and local actors in driving people-centred early warning systems.

New satellite-based research has identified signs of Ahmedabad land subsidence across parts of the city’s western and southern urban corridors, raising concerns over groundwater management, urban planning and the long-term resilience.

Many parts of Australia have already broken early winter maximum and minimum temperature records.

A new online tool out of the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health (YCCCH) strives to provide hyperlocal information about the range of extreme weather risks on mortality, including the potential impact on older adults.

Evidence from Uganda suggests that disasters can reduce income and life satisfaction for years, especially when households are displaced without their social networks.

Forecasters expect the El Niño now underway in the tropical Pacific to strengthen into a strong or very strong climate driver later this year.

The lives and livelihoods of local communities in the borderlands of the Lake Chad Basin are disrupted by both climate change and conflict , which are mutually reinforcing.

Climate change adaptation ‘success’ is being defined and measured through metrics that often fail the communities they are meant to support.

Climate-related disasters are becoming more frequent and more intense across sub-Saharan Africa.

The heatwaves of today are the coolest heatwaves we are likely to experience for the rest of our lives. SRSG Kamal Kishore reflects on how cultural institutions can play a central role in extreme heat action – and in disaster risk reduction more broadly.

The objective of this report is to summarize Zambia’s financial preparedness to crises and disasters at the sovereign, firm, and household levels. In this context, the focus is on the fiscal implications of the emergency response to shocks for the GRZ.

The Global South, in particular, is suffering from the consequences of global heating. A new study quantifies heat stress in India by projecting it during the critical seasons.

Scientists have warned for years that climate change would increase wildfires across the Arctic. In places such as Siberia it’s already happening. In that context, the 2015-2020 fires may represent Greenland following the same path.

The report draws attention to Australia’s workforce of First Nations women in fire and land management, and highlights the profound positive impacts that culturally responsive professional development programs can have on this cohort.

The rising temperatures in the Arctic, driven by human-caused climate change, have significant repercussions for the region’s peoples and ecosystems, with impacts extending far beyond the region.

The HKH Monsoon Outlook 2026 forecasts that several countries in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region, including Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan, are likely to witness drier-than-average monsoon conditions coupled with temperatures averaging 0.5 °C to

An extraordinary heatwave in Europe has shattered numerous temperature records and had major impacts on human health, ecosystems, agriculture, infrastructure and labour productivity.