Documents and publications

The report addresses the escalating climate crisis in Southern Africa, where the region has swung from severe El Niño-driven drought in 2023-2024 to devastating La Niña floods and cyclones in 2025-2026, affecting nearly 1.9 million people.

The study examines how older farmers (aged 60–69) in drought-prone areas of Buriram Province, Thailand, perceive and respond to drought risk.

The 2026 GPMB report finds that as infectious disease outbreaks become more frequent they are also becoming more damaging, with widening health, economic, political and social impacts, and less capacity to recover from them.

This publication explores how generative language models combine social media, news and weather data to detect disasters quickly and accurately, using satellite data to validate results from flood and wildfire case studies.

This review analyzes peer-reviewed studies to examine how risk communication strategies vary across temporal dimensions, hazard groups and intended purpose.

This study develops a probabilistic flood-impact assessment for the Cagayan river basin (northern Luzon, Philippines) by linking Bayesian extreme-value inference with uncertainty propagation along the rainfall–flood–damage chain.

This study highlights that forest owners, and rural communities in the Caribbean are among the groups most vulnerable to hurricanes and other extreme climate events.

This study examines the impact of natural disasters on the continuity of radiotherapy services, a critical component of cancer treatment responsible for managing one of the world's leading causes of death.