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This report presents findings from a survey of 3,700 U.S. adults on disaster preparedness. Most respondents are concerned about natural disasters, but few feel very prepared, with cost identified as the leading barrier to preparedness.

United We Prepare®, a disaster preparedness initiative by United Way Worldwide, supported by Verizon, is helping to make preparedness easier, less costly, and more accessible. It provides tools and information, to prepare for disasters.

This report draws on a survey of 1,300 stakeholders assessing 28 global risks. Large-scale war, AI and frontier technologies gained prominence, while climate change inaction remained the most important global risk.

Wildfires can turn natural metals in soil into toxic, airborne particles. Stanford researchers are working to predict where these metals travel and warn people in harm’s way.

What happens if sea level rise, hurricane wind strength, or other factors turn out worse than expected? The author gives about a 90% chance that climate change will cause a net increase in Atlantic hurricane destruction over the coming 30 years.

More than 3,600 people are staying in 37 holding centres across Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading districts. No major outbreak has been reported, but cases of colds, coughs and viral fever are common.

Paper assesses 16 community resilience outcomes among flood-vulnerable people in Bangladesh. Vulnerability mapping, community participation and precautionary measures scored highest; NGO support, DRM awareness and post-disaster health safety scored lower.

The Heat Impact Assessment (HIA) Framework as a strategic instrument to strengthen heat risk management in the country.

This survey is a nationally representative survey of adults in the UK, carried out in order to understand what people think about different types of emergencies, and what steps – if any – they have taken to prepare for them

The opportunity before Africa is therefore larger than closing a protection gap. It is about creating the conditions that allow millions more people, businesses and public assets to become insurable.

This brief identifies key policy implications based on a systematic review of 49 studies covering 53 nature-based interventions across 26 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) worldwide.

Drawing on experience from Armenia, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal, these lessons explain how strategic climate diagnostics can identify priority risks and how economic, fiscal, and financial analysis can build the case for investment.

This report examines how extreme heat affects students, educators, families, and school systems and provides practical, evidence-informed guidance grounded in psychological science to help school communities respond.

The brief compiles information from various sources to provide an updated, consolidated picture and monitoring of El Niño's effects on global food security.

This study leverages the first long-term, sub-kilometer, sub-hourly observational network in equatorial Singapore (730 normal k meters squared" data-speech-attached="true" data-semantic-braille="⠅⠍⠘⠆" data-braille-attached="true" has-speech="true"> normal k meters squared" data-semantic-summary=" product with 2 factors" data-semantic-braille="⠅⠍⠘⠆"> normal k" data-semantic-summary=" identifier" data-semantic-braille="⠅">k⁢ meters squared" data-semantic-summary=" power" data-semantic-braille="⠍⠘⠆"> meters" data-semantic-prefix=" Base" data-semantic-summary=" identifier" data-semantic-braille="⠍">m 2" data-semantic-prefix=" Exponent" data-semantic-summary=" number" data-semantic-braille="⠆">2), with 122 rain gauges reporting 5 min intensities for 2020–2024 and 82 stations with hourly accumulations for 1980–2024, combined

This study proposes a new temporal merging method for seamless climate forecast information of climate extremes.

This paper shows that heat impacts emerge from the interaction of biological differences and gendered social roles.

The Mediterranean may seem far removed from the world’s major tsunami zones, but history and modern modeling show that destructive waves can strike the French Riviera with surprisingly little warning.

Small, nimble cows are being deployed in Galicia to lower wildfire risk by doing what they do best: eating.

The floods in Nepal in late August 2026 were not a conventional rainfall-driven event, but a chain reaction in which slope failure, ice, rock, water, sediment, and river geometry combined to turn a remote mountain disturbance into a far-reaching disaster.

A stone bench and pillar on Bainbridge Island in Washington State show how sea levels could change over the coming decades.

This inside story examines how VESA groups in Ethiopia’s South Omo strengthened climate resilience, women’s leadership, livelihood diversification, access to climate information and more inclusive household and community decision-making.

Researchers from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau expedition team identified the Aug. 26 glacier landslide in Nepal, which crossed into China, as one of the most extreme and destructive natural disasters ever recorded in the Himalayas.

This editorial uses the 2026 Gyirong–Rasuwagadhi rock–ice avalanche, debris-flow and flood cascade to argue for integrated transboundary warning systems linking monitoring, detection, impact forecasting and pre-authorized action.

The issue with how America deals with wildfires is thinking there is one primary strategy to end the wildfire crisis. But effective wildfire strategy in worsening fire seasons demands a system of actions – interconnected pieces that reinforce one another.

Peek says getting involved in age-appropriate ways can help kids process the disaster they experienced or witnessed, and it shows them the power they have to make a difference.

With El Niño threatening to disrupt upcoming rainfall and agricultural seasons, the LRCS activated its EAP for drought and begin implementing anticipatory actions to support the most vulnerable households. Heightened food insecurity is the main concern.

Taking the small positives after a disaster in the Pacific, how one Samoan resident says the 2009 tsunami helped change people’s mind sets.

Britain’s railway system has already been under stress from extreme heat this summer, with several operators reducing timetables and train speeds.

As the risk of ‘fire weather’ increases, humans are learning to adapt to an ominous new normal

Cultural heritage protection has become an increasingly important component of European disaster risk management and civil protection.

The DisasterAWARE ecosystem was not introduced in the middle of a crisis—it was already part of the international operating environment that bridges communities. It has been exercised through continuous engagements.

The nature‑based solutions for urban heat are specifically designed for neighborhoods and communities because the standard will provide users with tools and techniques to identify areas where nature‑based solutions can be most effectively implemented.

Kampala Capital City Authority has intensified flood preparedness across the city as Uganda braces for increased rainfall, with the Ministry of Water and Environment warning of a high likelihood of El Niño conditions during the Sept-Dec rainfall season.

Analysis of more than 36,000 buildings affected by the January Victorian bushfires shows why broad hazard assessments alone cannot reveal the vulnerability of individual properties.

This study shows how nature-based solutions help residents of an informal settlement in Fiji adapt to growing climate risks. Located in a coastal area, the community faces recurring flooding, sea-level rise, extreme heat, and variable rainfall.

This report documents an integrated DRR field mission conducted by the GRMI in Katcha Ward, Niger State, on 10 July 2026. The mission combined agricultural support with geospatial flood risk assessment to better understand the exposure of rice farmers.

Environment Agency says talks under way about increasing prices for industrial users to try to reduce poor water management

This guidance note provides a framework for evaluating whether climate and disaster risk models are fit for climate and disaster risk financing decisions, covering model transparency, hazard, exposure, vulnerability, loss and uncertainty assessment.

This report examines how extreme heat is affecting women informal workers in Thailand. Based on surveys, workshops and focus groups, it finds major impacts on health, income and livelihoods, and highlights locally identified resilience solutions.

Two smoke-damage bills awaiting the governor’s signature address a longstanding issue brought to the fore by the Los Angeles County fires: When is it safe for wildfire survivors to move back into their homes?

This case study explores how climate-related mobility and flood risk intersect in Dakar, highlighting community-based disaster risk reduction, nature-based solutions, flood governance reforms and lessons for evidence-based planning.

This case study explores community-based responses to climate mobility in Moundou, Chad, highlighting water management committees, mediation training and women-led initiatives that strengthened social cohesion, conflict prevention and resilience.

Subsidised power is tackling energy poverty and health risks for some of northern Mexico’s most vulnerable city dwellers.

This practitioner’s brief synthesises lessons from GIZ’s Global Programme on Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change and provides recommendations on governance, data, financing, rights-based approaches and cross-regional learning.

New analysis from Ordnance Survey has found more than eight in ten cities in Great Britain are already highly vulnerable to urban heat islands, and almost two thirds are set to reach severe heat vulnerability by the turn of the century.