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Study from Kerala shows how climate hazards can deepen inequalities for people with disabilities through inaccessible warnings, evacuation routes, shelters and services. Similar challenges in Sierra Leone highlight the need for inclusive climate action.

After seven years of drought, Morocco experienced an exceptionally wet winter in 2025–26 as Atlantic storm tracks shifted southward. The article argues that future rainfall will depend more on North Atlantic conditions than on El Niño alone.

This case study of Vietnam’s heat early warning system finds that heat monitoring and forecasting are established, but risk knowledge, preparedness, targeting of warnings and institutional coordination remain limited.

Review of disaster management research in Bangladesh (2000–2024). The paper identifies major thematic trends, gaps and challenges, highlighting a shift toward resilience-based approaches while calling for stronger governance, inclusion and coordination.

Forecasting and early warning technology remain essential, but they have to be matched by readiness at the community level – evacuation plans, trusted communication networks, prepared local institutions and people able to act when information arrives.

Exceptionally high temperatures preceded the August mountain collapse that triggered deadly floods in Nepal and China. Scientists say heat may have contributed to permafrost thaw and glacier instability, but no direct causal link has yet been established.

Ethical preparedness requires communities to recognise vulnerability beforehand. Ethical leadership must move beyond the actions of individual leaders and become embedded within the culture and practices of organisations and communities.

UCC team present Ireland’s first national Coastal Exposure Index, showing where communities, cultural heritage and other coastal assets face the greatest exposure. Mayo has the largest stretch of coastline classified as “Very High Exposure”, at 414.5 km

Storms, floods, and heatwaves most common climate hazards causing school closures, class suspensions, and other education interruptions

In some regions of the world, the poorest people may spend about 50 percent of their income on food, while the richest spend about 5 percent.

European heavy industry is facing an acceleration of climate risks. Between decarbonization goals, resilience imperatives and growing concerns over industrial sovereignty, the sustainability of assets requires a rigorous and immediate adaptation strategY

Planned relocation in Fiji can profoundly affect communities’ identities, traditions and connections to land. The HMCCC Programme supported the development of Standard Operating Procedures and trainings for government officials to make

The Artificial Intelligence in Disaster Management – Scope and Limitations webinar series includes four sessions with distinguished experts in the field of AI for disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation.

This study shows that antecedent drought development is linked to distinct, region-dependent pathways from drought to extreme precipitation, providing a basis for anticipating compound hydrological extremes. Rapid transitions from drought to extreme

This study explores how forests resist and recover from compound heat and moisture extremes and how tree diversity mediates these responses, using U.S. forest inventory data along with satellite-based stability estimates.

This study reflects on the probability of observing an extreme event of interest within a finite dataset, whether derived from observations or model simulations, to inform risk assessment or climate adaptation efforts.

Given its speed, scale and scope, the Bundibugyo Ebola virus disease that broke out in the DRC in mid-2026 could become a global epidemic. Preventing a fast-spreading outbreak that has already taken over a large geographical region is difficult.

Mobile-based SMS alerts are a key part of Madagascar’s multi-hazard early warning system (EWS), alongside radio, community relay mechanisms, and institutional communication channels.

This report draws on four case studies and insights from the Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation (M4H) programme’s own in-country experience to identity practical lessons for mobile-enabled EWS implementation in low- and middle-income (LMIC) contexts.

On August 26, the side of a mountain near the border between Nepal and Tibet collapsed. Seven billion cubic feet of glacial ice and rock, enough to fill 100 football stadiums, crashed roughly a mile straight down into the river below.

Indonesia’s Mount Anak Krakatau has erupted again this week, sending plumes of volcanic ash high into the sky and disrupting hundreds of flights. More than 300,000 passengers have been affected.

Children across Europe have returned to school after a summer of extreme heat. As the climate warms, one question is becoming harder to ignore: how can students learn when classrooms become dangerously hot?

Unusual heat this year may have melted ice and thawed bonds that hold glaciers in place – leading to catastrophe

This toolkit provides a practical, step-by-step framework to support cities, urban local governments, planners, practitioners, and community stakeholders in developing and implementing Heat Action Plans (HAPs) to address the growing risks of extreme heat.

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

As heat, drought and extreme rainfall put growing pressure on Europe’s cities, the city of Guimaraes is using digital tools and scientific data to decide where climate action is needed most, and to measure what works.

Call for contributions that examine how disasters shape and are shaped by electoral politics, governance regimes, and political agenda setting, as well as those reflecting the diverse approaches taken to reduce disaster risks.

This guidance note outlines practical approaches to strengthening information integrity within risk communication–before, during, and after disasters. Preparing for and managing information risks is an integral part of disaster risk reduction efforts.

This study examined the sensitivity of flood-frequency estimates to the length of hydrometric records using the annual maximum series (AMS) and partial value series (PVS) approaches at 15 hydrometric stations in the Karkheh Basin, Iran.

This research examines how geographic spread approaches can be adapted to account for the specific travel patterns and epidemiological context of the DRC–Uganda border. A geographic spread approach is used to estimate the burden of infectious disease.

This study investigates how extreme flood events can indirectly impact the global supply chain through production disruptions. Using a data-driven, agent-based network model, the research simulates the transmission and amplification of shocks.

This study applied an integrated flood risk assessment framework to evaluate climate-driven compound flood risk in Broadland, with particular emphasis on how methodological choices influence exposure, damage and spatial risk estimates.

This study compares community experiences of slow- and rapid-onset flooding during Australia’s 2022–2023 floods. While both caused long recoveries, slow-onset floods created prolonged uncertainty, unique preparedness challenges, and delayed recovery needs

This review examines school disaster resilience assessment tools published between 2015 and 2024. Existing tools address structural, non-structural and functional resilience, but often overlook psychosocial resilience and local context adaptation.

New social science research is helping strengthen tsunami safety messaging by showing how people understand evacuation maps, natural warnings and official alerts.

This study uses observations and machine learning to estimate bankfull river discharge globally. Results show that bankfull return periods vary significantly across climate zones, challenging the common 2-year assumption used in global flood models.

This report identifies key challenges in preparing for future changes to the critical risk landscape, drawing on reports, ‘Survey on Governance of Critical Risks’ and ‘Survey on Governance of Critical Infrastructure Resilience’ carried out in 2022-25.

This paper presents LiveCyc, a machine learning system that converts tropical cyclone forecasts into probabilistic 1-km wind forecasts. Evaluation across 16 U.S. hurricane landfalls shows well-calibrated results and supports optimized warning triggers.

August was the hottest month of the year, with an average temperature of 25.6 C, up 5.2 ​C from the 1951-1980 average and 3.5 C ​above the 1991-2020 norm, according to Italy's research public body.

Saltwater isn’t something most people associate with English farmland. But in parts of eastern England, it’s becoming a growing problem, and not just for crops, but for farm incomes too.

The Nepal disaster is not only a warning about a changing Himalaya. It exposes why societies fail to act on risks they already understand.

Scientists say it will take more than early warning systems and cooling centers to keep people safe.

Wildland firefighting is increasingly facing an intractable reality: We’re stuck in a vicious cycle. A doom loop.

Glacier retreat, expanding glacial lakes, thawing permafrost and unstable slopes are increasing the risk of disasters in the Himalayas.

The drought of 2026 is not yet over, and some of its effects are already visible. There are economic consequences for agriculture, transport and industry. But there are also consequences that are less visible and may have long-term effects.

Three cities are learning from each other about how to protect residents. These climate policies are also public health measures.

Rajendra Dawadi, who leads Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School in Nuwakot - which has a total student population of just over 1,600 - says he received four warnings from different people within minutes.

Satellite and drone imagery provide an initial view of the landslide that triggered the 26 August 2026 Nepal-Tibet debris flow. The analysis suggests a massive bedrock failure on a steep slope, while the role of climate change requires further study.

A survey of 140 Indonesian operational meteorologists finds that terminology ambiguity and reliance on weather station data hinder heat warning dissemination. Past successful warnings and a liberal warning philosophy strongly influence warning decisions.