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

This report highlights extreme heat as an unequal urban disaster in India and Asia, detailing impacts on informal workers and urban poor, and calls for preventive, equity-focused responses like early warnings and participatory action plans.

As a record-breaking El Niño continues to grow, climate scientist Daniel Swain explains what may be in store for the next year as we brace for an El Niño “so far above anything we've previously seen, it doesn't even fit on the same axis.”

This study suggests that wildland-urban interface (WUI) disasters create a distinct post-disaster exposure regime characterised by persistent internal metal mixtures associated with pulmonary impairment months after the event.

From a food security perspective, the mountain of discarded food is problematic. As it decomposes in landfills, rotting food releases enough methane to make it one of the major drivers of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.

For Australian farmers, frost risk is a growing concern. This is particularly true as the strengthening El Niño threatens to bring increasingly fierce and frequent frosts to farming regions.

This evaluation of IRC's Climate Resilient Education Systems Trial (CREST) pilot in northern Kenya looks at what happens when parametric insurance meets education, and offers practical lessons for others looking to follow.

This research quantitatively evaluates how historical landform modifications and urban expansion have altered rainfall–runoff behaviour and flood exposure.

This paper mobilises the theoretical frameworks of policy transfer and organisational learning to analyse French and international post-exercise and post-seismic after-action reviews.

This study examines how serious games can support disaster risk management education, identifying design features that improve risk communication, learning and preparedness.

This study examines fire governance from fire-prone countries and transdisciplinary practitioner knowledge to propose ten principles for aligning fire policy with social-ecological realities.

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.

The challenge for AI models to predict hurricane intensity is not just about obtaining more data, building better neural networks or deploying faster computers. It is also about understanding hurricane behaviors and how chaos in intensity emerges.

Authoritarian regimes have a history of keeping information about escalating disasters secret, even when it could harm their own citizens.

Houses can be built on floodplains even if they fail a crucial safety test, according to a high court judgment that will be of “immense interest” to developers across England and Wales.

This paper examines the associations between predictive preparedness, adaptive governance, institutional fragmentation, and recurrent shock reduction in Somalia through a quantitative, cross-sectional study.

Researchers at The University of Texas at San Antonio have developed a self-sustaining, artificial intelligence-powered flood warning system designed to spot dangerous water accumulation at the street level.

Antarctic radar observations improved Southern Hemisphere weather forecasts, reducing errors in atmospheric river predictions and enhancing estimates of winds, moisture transport and circulation in data-sparse regions.

The Toolkit seeks to narrow the gap between climate science and climate action by providing insights, recommendations, and practical tools to support dialogue between scientists, decision-makers, and many diverse communities.

This primer offers actionable guidance for EU policymakers to combat climate disinformation – an issue they are increasingly confronted with and that can seriously impede their work.

This fact check debunks claims that High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program caused Colombia’s deadly earthquake, explaining that the disaster resulted from natural fault movement, not human activity or radio-frequency technology.

This article reviews barriers to inclusive emergency alerts, highlighting how limited language access, inaccessible channels and mistrust can prevent people from receiving and acting on warnings.

The chapter 4 "National security and stability" examines how journalism can reduce the harms of disinformation, showing how trusted news, fact-checking and media freedom support public resilience, security and stability.

Accounting for the accumulated effects could help governments better assess climate risks and plan adaptation measures, Concordia researchers say

Amid recurring landslides, a growing number of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are being forced to adapt to increasingly limited camp space. Refugee management authorities warn that expansions of Rohingya camps will accelerate destruction of forests.

Environmental and disaster sociologist Maggie León-Corwin says there’s no standardized nationwide protocol for evacuating prisons and jails, and that governments should develop procedures and plans for keeping incarcerated people against extreme weather.

In late 2025, typhoons damaged thousands of schools in Viet Nam, disrupting learning for millions. UNESCO and the Ministry of Education and Training helped communities in Cao Bang and Lang Son restore schools and prepare for future emergencies.

Conclusions from the ILO Meeting of Experts on occupational safety and health in extreme weather events and changing weather patterns, providing guidance on prevention, preparedness, risk assessment, early warning, workplace measures and resilience.

Technical handbook for North Macedonia on risk and hazard assessment and protection and rescue planning, identifying gaps in coordination, methodology and data management; recommending EU-aligned, risk-informed approaches to preparedness and resilience.

A framework providing a universal taxonomy for natural hazard and climate risk and resilience assessments of infrastructure systems, defining Risk Classes, Resilience Classes and guidance for hazard, climate and infrastructure assessments.

This report synthesises social science evidence on climate adaptation and resilience for UK policymakers, highlighting adaptation as an ongoing social process shaped by people’s lived experiences, vulnerabilities, and social context.

The article explores the record-strength 2026 El Niño, its global impacts and links to climate change, while examining how terms such as “super El Niño” shape how scientists, media and the public understand extreme events.

On 11 June 2026, Lithuania’s Parliament adopted the Climate Change Adaptation Law, establishing a legal framework for developing and implementing adaptation policy, managing climate-related risks, and collecting and providing relevant information.

This research article assesses eight water stressors across Africa using exposure and vulnerability data. It finds WASH-service risks affect the largest populations and calls for stronger transboundary cooperation and improved data systems.

This report shows that for women in beauty services, domestic work, food delivery, e-commerce, and ride-hailing, heat is not just a climate issue. It is a labour rights, gender, health, and urban infrastructure crisis.

Experiences of garment workers in this study show that extreme heat is not just uncomfortable but determines health, mental well-being, productivity, and livelihood. Yet workplace regulations and climate responses remain poorly equipped to address risks.

The recent disaster in Nepal may be a warning of what's to come for the rest of the world. While scientists are getting better at identifying where the danger lies, knowing exactly when the next mountainside will collapse is a much harder problem.

Based on five years of research with flood action groups in England, this paper shows how communities negotiate, contest and resist resilience agendas, developing a typology of emotional, symbolic, discursive, collective and procedural resistance.

This Sicilian community has endured for centuries. But climate change, drought, heat and wildfires are threatening farming livelihoods in Sicily’s Arbëreshë community, raising concerns over the potential loss of a 500-year-old cultural heritage.

WHO’s 2026 situation analysis warns the strong El Niño will bring extreme climate conditions, escalating health threats particularly for the vulnerable, urging early action to anticipate, mitigate, and respond.

An interview with Sarah Jones, President of DWD, partnership and what EUMETSAT’s new generation satellites will bring and how Germany's national weather service applies EUMETSAT data and services in essential weather forecasts and climate monitoring.

In the old times, wildfires happened a lot more frequently than people assume. And wildfires also happened due to natural phenomena such as lightning. So both completely untouched ecosystems & humans in nature had to learn to live with wildfires

Some forests have evolved over time to expect regular wildfires of particular strength. Black spruces & lodgepole pines depend on fires to open serotinous cones and release seeds, and ponderosa pines have a thick bark that helps them survive surface fires

Scientists at the Australian National University are developing what could be Australia's first national satellite mission for Earth observation, with world-first technology to monitor the flammability of eucalypt forests from space.

This study examines communication for compound natural hazards in Australia, showing how listening, disaster literacy and creativity can support preparedness, response and recovery

This report synthesizes social science evidence on UK climate adaptation, showing how people-centered approaches can make resilience policy more effective, equitable and responsive to lived experience.

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