Risk identification and assessment

Risk identification and assessment

Risk identification and assessment

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2023
This article provides nuanced projections of heat wave characteristics and their effect on mortality over the Eastern Mediterranean, finding that heat waves could occur seven times more often and last three times longer by the end of the 21st century.
Science of The Total Environment (Elsevier)
Aerial image of Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada
Breaches in glacial lake dams threaten millions around the world, and scientists are investigating how climate change might affect that risk.
Eos - AGU
Researchers warn that heat waves in the Eastern Mediterranean likely to occur seven times more often and last three times longer by century’s end
Times of Israel, the
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2023
In this study, the authors leverage the advancements in open geospatial data, earth observation (EO), and machine learning to create a multi-hazard susceptibility index and a transferrable disaster risk approach.
Natural Hazards (Springer)
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2023
This Synthesis Report (SYR) of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) summarises the state of knowledge of climate change, its widespread impacts and risks, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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2023
This report presents the disaster impacts of 2022.
Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters Université Catholique de Louvain United States Agency for International Development
A farmer overlooking his dried up field.
After three years of extreme drought, the Western U.S. is finally getting a break. Mountain ranges are covered in deep snow, and water reservoirs in many areas are filling up following a series of atmospheric rivers that brought record rain.
Conversation Media Group, the
Mozambique - aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Idai, 2021
Freddy was the most energetic storm on record. It also went through the most cycles of weakening and re-intensifying, and may have been the longest-lived cyclone in history.
Conversation Media Group, the