Annual Weather, Climate and Catastrophe Insight report reveals $313 billion global economic loss from natural catastrophes. Prominence of droughts and heatwaves highlighted growing importance of these perils in a warming world.
Last month, a new Automated Weather Station (AWS) was installed at the Vanuatu Agricultural Research and Training Centre in Luganville. Two Automatic Rainfall Gauges (ARG) were installed at the villages of Vunaspef and Sarakata Hydro.
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
A new way of tracking ocean waves with satellite measurements was developed and applied to extratropical cyclones, revealing the effects of storm characteristics on extreme sea states.
After three soggy years of La Niña in a row, Australia has endured record-breaking floods, the latest of which has inundated the Kimberley in Western Australia and across north and central Queensland.
Shipping ports are crucial for the global economy. They handle the majority of trade, and transportation hubs and provide employment. Ports are located in coastal areas or on large rivers and are exposed to natural hazards such as storms and floods.
A new study shows that it is possible to produce regional assessments of how hurricane flood hazards change due to both evolving storm tides and precipitation rates in a warming climate.
This investigation compared the consistency of access to resources and services pre- and post-Cyclone Idai, assessed the extent to which the consistency of access to these resources and services was correlated
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Situated in the Indian Sundarbans, this study uncovers how and why advances in scientific knowledge and technological developments are failing to enhance resilience of the marginal and vulnerable populations, instead unmaking their lived environments.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
