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The Harmful Environmental Agendas and Tactics (HEAT) project examined climate-related misinformation and harmful narratives circulating across France, Germany, and the Netherlands.

This study proposes a novel and efficient method to distill the results coming from a complex model simulation (LISFLOOD) over continental Europe into two key indicators that could be represented and communicated in simple maps.

This study presents a systematic review of 2171 publications spanning 1964–2025, combining a global perspective with a regional focus on the Gulf of Guinea, a critically underrepresented region within the African continent.

A study finds that the influence of El Niño is very strong, although smaller than the influence of climate change.

This study analyses COVID-19 misinformation in South Africa, highlighting how continuous social listening and community-based communication can inform more adaptive responses to public health misinformation.

This article addresses how social listening can improve health crisis communication, highlighting the need to identify public concerns, tailor responses and continuously assess changing information needs.

As climate change increases flood risks across the UK, water management must shift towards a catchment-scale approach to address emerging challenges.

This study's objective is o assess the timeliness of outbreak detection, notification and response against the 7-1-7 targets, and to identify the bottlenecks and enablers at each stage.

This paper consolidates 58,319 outbreak event records for 32 diseases and systematically test how 16 hypothesized social and environmental drivers impact outbreak geographies, while accounting for detection and reporting biases.

This paper describes how to use the Integrated system for Natural Capital Accounts to measure and account for ecosystem vulnerability, which constitutes the first component of nature-related risk.

This study examines how storytelling and cultural memory can strengthen risk communication in Alpine communities, helping translate hazard information into protective action, collective resilience and disaster recovery.

Common industry practices put farm animals at high risk during extreme weather. Animal agriculture is a major contributor to this current crisis, but the animals stuck within this industry are also among its most vulnerable victims.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers are developing three-dimensional simulations to examine how a nuclear device could be used to deflect or potentially disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth.

This paper analyzes 2019–20 NSW wildfire losses, finding 94% of destroyed houses were within 100 m of mapped flammable vegetation, validating the NSW Bush Fire Prone Land mapping’s 100 m buffer but noting risks extend further in extreme fire weather.

This paper examines how extreme heat in Rio de Janeiro reconfigures daily care for children, showing heat traps disrupt routines, intensify care burdens, erode rest, and disproportionately impact women, urging policy to address social reproduction needs.

A decade-long study of earthquake activity in California has provided the strongest evidence to date that forecasting models can reliably describe patterns of earthquake activity over the following day.

CoSMos Adapts gives climate-resilience planners a way to compare the costs of inaction or long-term savings by adopting solutions such as restoring sand dunes or rocky reefs to guard against increasingly destructive storms.

2025 landslide-triggered mega-tsunami in Alaska shows growing risks as glaciers melt. Scientists propose a progressive alert system using weather, glacier changes and seismic activity to warn communities and vessels of potential landslides and tsunamis.

As climate change is expected to increase the risks associated with extreme rainfall and flooding, managing floods requires approaches beyond conventional infrastructure such as dams and reservoirs.

Researchers found two new magma sources under the active volcano, highlighting the critical importance of understanding transitions in volcanic behavior and shallow magma processes, especially when they potentially pose hazards to local communities.

The authors introduce a new framework for subseasonal weather forecasts, MARS+Forecast, which extends MARS yield predictions using ECMWF four-week temperature and precipitation forecasts following the MARS publication date.

Scientists, natural resource managers, and others use innovative research by Pew marine fellows to prepare for the effects of a hotter ocean.

‘Green’ infrastructure can help control stormwater and prevent polluted wastewater from overflowing into rivers and streams.

Kern County has more cases of valley fever and more fossil fuel wells than anywhere else in California. A new study suggests this might not be a coincidence.

This study examines early warning messages in Ethiopia and South Africa, finding that direct recipients reported more complete warnings and were more likely to take protective action than those receiving information indirectly.

The most damaging weather events are the record-breaking “one-in-100-year” disasters communities have usually only seen once. But understanding how these rare events could change in the future is hard.

How do you make decisions about climate adaptation when risks are interconnected, knowledge is incomplete, and there is no obvious way forward?

While Nepal has invested significantly in GLOF monitoring, the August flood has highlighted the need to broaden this effort through earth observation, wider hazard monitoring, risk communication and transboundary data-sharing to identify evolving risks

This study examines community-based climate risk communication in California, showing how locally driven information exchange can strengthen trust, collective action and resilience to multiple hazards.

This summer, Australia could face some of its most extreme bushfire conditions ever, due to the severity of an ever-strengthening El Niño. And for many Australians, memories of catastrophic natural disasters are still painfully fresh.

This study presents the participatory development and piloting processes of a Disaster Preparedness Checklist for health systems, designed to strengthen preparedness for Extreme Weather Events across diverse mountainous European contexts.

A software error triggering a false magnitude 9.9 quake in Japan sparks fears that eroding public trust could cost lives in a real quake

This Disaster Management Reference Handbook provides a comprehensive profile of Vanuatu’s national DM structure, policies, plans, and institutions, as well as background information on the country, its natural hazards.

After repeated flooding, villagers in southern Malawi planted trees and built a dyke. Their local approach is now helping to protect their homes from rising water – and it is becoming a role model for disaster preparedness throughout the country.

The authors present an innovative, data-driven methodology for mapping susceptibility to flood damage to private assets, leveraging machine learning techniques to overcome some of the limitations and uncertainties associated with traditional approaches.

This study applies an a priori scaffold of eight institutionalisation pathways and a cross-cutting coordination pathway to develop an institutionalisation-deficit framework.

This study analysed the relationship between infrastructure damage and disaster impact. It does so by scraping 79 Post Disaster Needs Assessment reports to collect disaster specific infrastructure damage data for 79 disaster events of this century.

The October 2026 GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning report provides an overview of global crop conditions with a focus on regions vulnerable to food insecurity.

This study aims to develop a risk-based model for assessing fire hazards in highway bridges, intended as a practical decision-support tool for infrastructure managers to identify critical scenarios and prioritise mitigation strategies.

Using the October 2018 extreme sea level event in the Adriatic Sea as a case study, the authors evaluated two different approaches to forecasting compound sea level extremes.

Community wildfire adaption activities may not work as well as hoped because they downplay the importance of local contexts and local input.

This study identifies recurrent hotspot zones of projected heat and dry-spell persistence across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Seaside communities along the east coast of England have lost at least 183 homes to coastal erosion and landslides over the past 16 years, figures obtained by the Guardian reveal.

Beyond coordination, a national database could help Australia more fairly distribute bushfire management resources and facilitate the sharing of expertise, equipment and systems.

Free climate-readiness audits are helping religious organizations identify ways to buttress their buildings for extreme heat, flooding, and other dangers.

This report rapidly estimates US$1.66 billion in direct economic damage to physical assets from the August 2026 Rasuwa Flash Flood, identifying infrastructure and hydropower as hardest hit using the GRADE methodology for timely post-disaster assessment.