Disaster losses

The study integrates asset inventories, satellite imagery and impact modelling to estimate flood losses and damages within days, once a sufficiently detailed flood footprint is available.

Colombia: Two lists: community censuses and the official register

Along Colombia’s San Juan River, Afro Colombian community councils documented earthquake losses house by house – but only municipal authorities can enter those households into the national register that unlocks state assistance.

Nepal floods threaten jobs beyond the disaster zone

An ILO assessment finds the August floods disrupted work for some 21,400 people living within four kilometres of the flood footprint, with damaged trade routes carrying the shock much farther.

This research article explores future projections of burned area in Europe by assessing the influence of climate change and human actions.

Early heat waves hit wheat yields hardest

Research published in the Journal of Experimental Botany reveals that wheat crops are more sensitive to grain yield losses from heat waves that occur before reaching their flowering stage than those occurring later.

Super El Niño to cause 451,000 heat deaths

Climate scientists are calling the hotter temperatures resulting from El Niño a “postcard from the future.”

In this report scientists project that global land temperatures will be 1.2°C/2.1° F above normal in the coming months due in large part to the current “Super El Niño” that began in June and is expected to last through Northern Hemisphere spring.

This scoping review of 176 studies from 41 countries found that heatwave-associated deaths are rarely coded as direct heat-related, while surveillance systems remain fragmented, highlighting the need for standardized and integrated monitoring.