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CDRI invites photographers to capture indigenous and traditional practices that have made communities resilient to natural hazards and to share the story of their resilience characteristics and impact.

Registration is now open for experts to review the First Order Draft of the Working Group II contribution to IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.

This report presents an evidence-based assessment of New Zealand’s atmosphere and climate, highlighting record-high greenhouse gases and temperatures, increased weather extremes, and the urgent need for adaptation and resilience.

The platform combines NASA fire observations with official reports where available. Users can follow locations through email alerts, explore background articles and contribute photographs or videos for review before publication.

Integrating wildfire resilience into new construction is practical and economical, according to the report’s findings.

This report assesses wildfire-resilient construction costs in Colorado, finding that adopting CWRC Class 1 or IBHS Essential standards increases costs minimally, while higher-tier pathways add moderate premiums focused on exterior components like decks.

Compounding risks to global food system—ongoing conflicts, the most severe El Niño in decades, global trade disruptions—humanitarian data are disappearing. Budget cuts, shrinking development assistance, and competing priorities erode key streams of data.

This report assesses feasibility of long-range flood outlooks for Australia using co-design with end users and BJP model to quantify and map flood likelihood, finding S2S forecasts enhance preparedness by identifying elevated risk weeks to months ahead.

This paper develops the Coastal Well-Being Loss Measurement Framework to capture nine domains of well-being losses from climatic hazards in Asia-Pacific coastal regions, highlighting the need for inclusive measurement beyond economic damage.

An experiment found that salt marshes withstand extreme waves with minimal erosion, reducing wave energy and supporting coastal protection. Conserving and restoring marshes could strengthen dikes, cut costs and protect biodiversity amid climate change.

Engineers are testing manufactured homes in extreme winds to identify affordable ways to prevent hurricane and tornado damage. Stronger anchoring systems could improve safety for millions of residents if adopted in national building standards.

As El Niño-driven drought and extreme weather threaten Pacific Island communities, Hawai‘i and Samoa partner on a disaster preparedness assessment to share knowledge and strengthen risk reduction, emergency readiness and resilience across the region.

Higher temperatures are linked to more gun violence incidents across 100 U.S. cities. Rising temperatures driven by human-caused climate change can amplify the risk of aggressive and violent behavior and, in turn, increase the number of shootings.

Disaster-related crop losses are often underreported, leaving smallholder farmers vulnerable. Combining household surveys, satellite data and emerging AI tools can improve loss estimates, identify affected groups and strengthen agricultural resilience.

Better forecasts alone will not deliver early action. Local organizations need actionable risk information, stronger decision-support systems and strengthened capacity to act before disaster strikes.

This study aims to explore whether educational status (literate vs. illiterate) is associated with differences in perceptions of well-being in a disaster-affected population from District Srinagar, J&K, India

This publication examines how extreme temperature and rainfall influence the vulnerability and climate change resilience of electricity transmission infrastructure in Kajiado County, Kenya.

A hands-on experience of disaster risk reduction helps equip the next generation for a resilient future.

This publication reports on an initiative that demonstrates how adaptation can go beyond reducing climate risk to address underlying social inequalities.

This report evaluates five adaptation solutions in the Andes, finding that community-led initiatives with visible impacts are most sustainable, recommending early integration of sustainability, monitoring, local empowerment, and financing strategies.

California’s Fifth Climate Change Assessment summarizes climate projections, hazards and vulnerabilities across the state, highlighting increasing risks and adaptation approaches for California’s natural, built and social systems.

This report explores how disaster risk reduction policies that center on "home" can overlook marginalized groups, urging inclusive approaches that recognize diverse living situations to ensure effective support and protection for all communities.

Climate change could threaten the reliability of half of U.S. drinking water utilities by 2050 through wildfires, heat, floods and rising seas. Experts urge utilities to assess risks and adapt infrastructure to protect safe water supplies.

A study found that updated hurricane forecast graphics help people identify inland watch areas but don't improve risk perception or protective intentions, highlighting the need for clearer local impact information to support safety decisions.

Municipalities control levers like land-use planning, permitting and local infrastructure. But the adaptive capacity of municipalities is shaped by fiscal, regulatory and policy frameworks established by federal, provincial or territorial governments.

This report describes DRF Analytics, a World Bank–managed initiative that developed adaptable tools for governments to improve disaster risk financing, enabling proactive planning and operational impact across diverse countries and hazards.

This report examines the risks facing the coastal areas of Asia and the Pacific and details how building resilience can protect development and unlock new opportunities.

A crack appears beside a window after weeks of scorching weather. As much as you might hope the ground beneath your house will recover with the first rain, the effects of a dry summer can continue long after temperatures fall.

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.