Risk identification and assessment

A qualitative or quantitative approach to determine the nature and extent of disaster risk by analysing potential hazards and evaluating existing conditions of exposure and vulnerability that together could harm people, property, services, livelihoods and the environment on which they depend.

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This Climate Risk Profile provides an overview of climate risks to food security and resilience in Madagascar, including an overview of current and projected climate impacts to agriculture, livestock, fisheries, water resources.
A devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Turkish province of Kahramanmaras.
In 2023, natural catastrophes resulted in economic losses of USD 280 billion. Of these USD 108 billion (40%) were covered by insurance, above the previous 10-year average of USD 89 billion.
Swiss Reinsurance Company (Swiss Re)
In a new study, researchers from the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF show that in every third case, atmospheric drought is followed by low water levels. More rarely does drought have a negative impact on groundwater.
Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
Developing heat action plans in a region that currently lacks them will help protect vulnerable people from dangerous heatwaves, the researchers say.
Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre
An artificial intelligence (AI) model could improve the accuracy of flood forecasting, according to a new study published in Nature.
Springer
Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) areas, which are transition zones between wilderness and human-developed land, are particularly susceptible to wildfires. The risk is heightened due to flammable vegetation and the effects of climate change.
University of Hong Kong, the
The “dangerous humid heat” that engulfed western Africa in mid-February was made 10 times more likely by human-caused climate change, a new rapid attribution study finds.
Carbon Brief
Thunderstorm over fields in South Africa.
The researchers reported that adding microwave data collected by low-Earth-orbiting satellites to existing computer weather forecast models produced more accurate forecasts of surface gusts in a case study of the 2020 Midwest Derecho.
American Geophysical Union

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