Risk identification and assessment

This paper develops a spatially continuous snow-climate zonation for High Mountain Asia (HMA) and classifies the region into maritime (11.9%), transitional (4.1%), and continental (73.0%) snow-climate regimes.

Using the Universal Thermal Climate Index, this paper assesses heat stress globally since 1950, examining daytime extremes, nocturnal heat and compound daytime–nighttime events, revealing a pronounced, multidimensional intensification.

The objective of the article is to estimate the stock of materials present in the building stock of regions susceptible to flooding, using as a study area the municipality of Novo Hamburgo-RS

As the climate warms because of heat-trapping pollution, spring is arriving earlier and summer temperatures are lingering later into the fall. As a result, mosquitoes can emerge earlier, remain active longer, and spread disease over a longer season.

As Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) braced for impacts from a second super typhoon in less than three months, the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) joined regional preparedness coordination and relief efforts.

A ‘reasonable worst-case scenario’ suggests need for large-scale movement of populations away from reshaped coast.

Climate models show warmer winters, with precipitation rates staying about the same but producing more rain and less snowpack, which leads to summer drought.