FAO experts map where crops and pasturelands are most vulnerable to drought.

This report provides a global overview Heat Early Warning Systems, examining where they exist, how they are designed and operated, and their challenges and opportunities.

HERA and its partners launched HERA Materna, the world’s first ever heat-pregnancy insurance program. Extreme heat is threatening pregnant women on the frontlines of the climate crisis, and until now no financial protection has existed to shield them.

For the first time, the World Risk Poll has measured not just how people around the world view the threat of climate change, but also whether they believe their fellow citizens feel the same.

Even as global rates of workplace injury are declining, action is still needed to reduce harm amongst the most vulnerable. There are also signs of complacency in the face of rising harm from food, drinking water and poor air quality.

This report explores public perceptions of the threat of climate change - perceptions that are shaped by people’s lived experience of risk in their daily lives as much as by scientific evidence.

Sporting events around the world are being impacted by extreme weather, including heat and heavy rainfall, and tennis is no exception.

This brief reviews the empirical evidence on the barriers women face in adapting to climate change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. A

This policy brief presents the first cross-country study of what governments want from pre-arranged financing (PAF) — funding secured in advance to respond to disasters.

This World Bank Development Report examines how rising climate risks are reshaping the competitiveness of firms across the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAAP) region.

The flagship report presents cross-country, firm-level evidence on the tangible impact rising temperatures and climate-related trade policies have on financial markets.

In Belize, the value of early warnings is now being shown not only through the lives and livelihoods they help protect, but also through the economic benefits they bring.

As California’s population boomed — from 10 million in 1950 to over 40 million today — the number of people living in fire-prone areas multiplied.

By mapping shade, a new online tool calculates the best way to stroll a city without overheating.

Developing economies in Asia and the Pacific are caught in a dangerous feedback loop: rising debt burdens are constraining their ability to invest in climate action, while climate shocks are worsening fiscal pressures and increasing debt risks.

The ICP represents a step in the right direction. It marks a departure from how major climate risk finance initiatives have typically operated, building inclusive planning into its architecture rather than treating it as an afterthought.

There is a quiet contradiction at the heart of natural hazard science. The regions most exposed to multi-hazard events are precisely the regions where we know the least.

Extreme weather and climate-related events affected at least 13 million people and led to over 3 000 reported fatalities in Africa in 2025, with knock-on effects across all sectors of the economy and society.

Hot, dry conditions set the stage, but it takes a short-lived local window of opportunity to produce an extreme wildfire

When heat waves hit the Western United States, the risk of wildfires quickly rises. The prolonged heat dries out vegetation, but that’s only part of the cause – heat waves also play other roles in spreading wildfires.

This is defined as the strongest El Niño event you can get, and happens when sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean rise by more than 2°C.

From drought preparedness in Africa to institutional strengthening in Kyrgyzstan and post-conflict recovery planning in the agricultural sector in Lebanon, explore how loss and damage data is being used as a resource for decision-making.

Climate hazards have always occurred naturally, but human-induced global warming is changing much of the world as we know it.

Dangerous heat, devastating rainfall and flooding, and severe drought affected millions of people across Asia in 2025, exacting a heavy human and economic toll.

The report distils what the Alliance has learned through working directly within planning and budgeting processes in 10 countries: Bangladesh, Bolivia, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

Extreme heat is reshaping sports and sport governance faster than many events are ready for. In this article, experts Ollie Jay, Lachlan McIver, Alejandro Saez Reale and Marc Gordon set out what’s at stake.

NOAA defines a “very strong” El Niño as when the Pacific’s surface waters are more than 2°C warmer than average. What does this mean for climate, for humans, and marine species?

A Stanford-led study based on two decades of satellite data finds California could cut deadly pollution from wildfire smoke by 20% in active fire years by expanding use of prescribed fire in conifer forests each year.

The paper examines the complex links between live wildlife trade, zoonotic disease risks, biodiversity loss, animal welfare, and global health security through a comprehensive One Health perspective.

This study assesses global inequalities in exposure to compound precipitation extremes (CPEs), defined as the concurrent occurrence of short-duration, high-intensity 1-day precipitation and prolonged 5-day precipitation.

The research seeks to address the question, what are the potential global targets forevaluating proactive drought preparedness and resilience that can be standardized and monitored to improve coordination among countries and international organizations.

A new study projects the intertwined relationship between fires and the money spent fighting them.

Climate Central-led paper finds climate change tripled the number of days with extreme water-levels at worldwide locations since the 1970s.

A recent study including UCF researcher Thomas Wahl reveals that sinking ground levels and rising sea levels are occurring more rapidly than previously understood, often worsening flooding in coastal communities.

What does successful climate change adaptation look like? The Global Goal on Adaptation aims to help countries find answers.

Human-caused sea-level rise has significantly increased the frequency of extreme coastal flooding worldwide, according to a new study led by a Tulane University researcher.

SOLAR-1 strengthens the nation’s ability to safeguard systems that can be disrupted by space weather, including the electric grid, satellites, communications, aviation, navigation systems and human spaceflight.

As temperatures rise, it is the poor who suffer most. The coping strategies of those living in informal settlements may hold lessons for cities of the future.

Our climate is changing rapidly, and most of the world is not prepared. But with the right tools and climate-smart investments, governments can keep people alive and ensure functioning health systems as these disasters escalate.

Agriculture is on the frontlines of climate change impacts. Droughts, floods, erratic rainfall and seasonal changes are already affecting crop yields, livestock productivity and rural livelihoods, particularly in developing countries.

What lesson should we draw from the surviving house in Pacific Palisades during the 2025 California wildfires?

Research led by the National Oceanography Centre has revealed that the greatest risks to subsea telecommunications cables serving small island nations are often concentrated close to island coastlines, where natural hazards and human activity overlap.

Our novel artificial intelligence model can predict extreme storm surges with high accuracy, including under future climate conditions.

An El Niño index that provides a more climate-robust measure of the strength of El Niño signals has been released by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

Early detection systems can dramatically reduce long-term harms to humans, study finds.

Child drownings spike during heatwaves – and it’s a serious climate justice issue

A farmer is turning to neighbors on higher ground as extreme weather reshapes her business.

In mid-April 2026, Super Typhoon Sinlaku churned across the North Pacific Ocean and brought heavy rain and flooding to the Mariana Islands.

An initiative by the H&M Foundation and Mercy Corps and co-funded by global financial technology platform, Adyen, is testing how early-warning systems can trigger remittances before climate disasters strike.

A timber building that kept itself centred through major shaking has aced a full‑scale earthquake test with no damage, with more than 60 industry professionals looking on.