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Earthquake-damaged masonry walls need repairs tailored to how they cracked. Walls may slide along joints, rock at the base or develop diagonal cracks, and repairs effective for one type of masonry or damage may not work for another.

In a Policy Article, authors use Jamaica’s experience with 2025’s Hurricane Melissa to reveal how extreme weather and disaster spending can trap climate-vulnerable countries in a cycle of recovery borrowing and underinvestment in future climate resilience

Nepal–China flood exposes a missing dimension in the global AI debate. As world leaders focus on future threats, the more immediate challenge is to use AI to anticipate disasters, accelerate cross-border warnings and protect human life today.

This paper presents a self-assessment tool for Community Recovery Committees in disaster-affected Australia, highlighting its usefulness in identifying governance, roles, and priorities, and recommends further testing and flexible government support.

This study assessed local health system resilience in three Indonesian coastal provinces, finding post-disaster improvements in governance and coordination, but gaps in logistics and human resources, recommending strengthened crisis management integration

This book assesses climate change, natural resources and human security in Central Asia, examining observed trends, future projections, cross-sector impacts, data gaps and implications for adaptation, disaster risk reduction and transboundary cooperation.

Heat-related deaths in Europe’s urban areas exceeded 50,000 in the summer of 2026. More than 32,000 of those deaths were attributable to human-caused global warming, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, according to studies published in Nature Health.

This paper analyzes how sustained exposure to extreme temperatures negatively impacts Cambodian students’ national exam performance, among social science students, females, and rural students, highlighting the need for adaptation in education systems.

Humane World for Animals India and government partners will build a facility dedicated to disaster preparedness, emergency response and animal protection needs during floods and landslides.

Running a global glacier model at daily rather than monthly resolution across more than 12,500 glaciers reproduces observed mass loss better and projects a 5 to 10 per cent larger glacier contribution to 21st-century sea-level rise.

This study examines conflict in disaster recovery collaborations in Australia, identifying psychological, procedural, and substantive interests as key drivers, and suggests reframing conflict as an opportunity to improve decision-making.

Most national climate adaptation plans talk about health – but there are gaps in structures and investment to achieve this crucial strand of climate policy. Policy needs to be translated into action.

Grenada’s climate finance project provides low-income households and communities with affordable loans and grants to strengthen homes, prevent landslides and manage drought. Revolving fund builds long-term resilience, especially for vulnerable families.

The podcast explains how the dry conditions have forced people to rely on non-traditional food crops for food.

This manual provides practical guidance for strengthening community-based flood risk management in Djibouti. It aims to help local communities reduce their vulnerability to flooding and strengthen their capacity to prepare, respond and recover from flood.

On this year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, UNDRR, UNESCO and IFRC explored how reliable information, resilient media and local knowledge help communities understand risks and prepare for disasters.

This study presents an image-based framework for rapid seismic assessment of unreinforced masonry façades using computer vision, photogrammetry, and semantic segmentation to automate 3D modeling and vulnerability analysis from multi-view RGB images.

An initiative by World Vision and VisionFund with catalytic support from The Coca-Cola Foundation, SIMS responds to growing climate pressures by helping protect local enterprises, markets and economic opportunity in Malawi and Zambia.

This paper examines the formation of the Greater Sydney Heat Taskforce and the co-design of Greater Sydney’s inaugural Heat Smart City Plan as a case through which to interrogate broader challenges in urban climate governance.

Most natural-hazard apps tell people what is happening during an emergency. Fewer than one in five help them prepare beforehand.

Wildfires that swept through France this summer resulted in around 22,500 insurance claims, with total losses estimated at up to 563 million euros ($634 million), the federation of insurers said on Friday.

Regional cooperation is critical, but it cannot replace national decisions on where and how risk is managed. The first decision is to look at valleys and corridors as a whole, not at hazards one by one.

Insurers are taking on more risk than they should. If – or when – a major disaster hits, the catastrophe will have far-reaching consequences.

This study presents seismic hazard maps for Finland, northern Europe, based on the earthquake catalog FENCAT updated until the end of 2021 and a 2025 three-level hierarchical zoning model.

This study used observed precipitation and QDM-corrected CMIP6 simulations to examine future meteorological drought in Brazil, across 82 hydrographic microregions under SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5.

This scoping review synthesises recurring dilemmas across design, implementation, evaluation, and future direction of anticipatory action (AA)

This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) shows that ambitious climate action can protect people and livelihoods while unlocking new engines of inclusive growth.

In Australia, days are growing longer and summer is fast approaching. But a very strong El Niño could make this summer a sweltering one. New research examined how the Greater Sydney region is preparing for surging temperatures and more frequent heatwaves.

CDRI invites photographers to capture indigenous and traditional practices that have made communities resilient to natural hazards and to share the story of their resilience characteristics and impact.

Registration is now open for experts to review the First Order Draft of the Working Group II contribution to IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.

This report presents an evidence-based assessment of New Zealand’s atmosphere and climate, highlighting record-high greenhouse gases and temperatures, increased weather extremes, and the urgent need for adaptation and resilience.

The platform combines NASA fire observations with official reports where available. Users can follow locations through email alerts, explore background articles and contribute photographs or videos for review before publication.

Integrating wildfire resilience into new construction is practical and economical, according to the report’s findings.