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FAO experts map where crops and pasturelands are most vulnerable to drought.

This report provides a global overview Heat Early Warning Systems, examining where they exist, how they are designed and operated, and their challenges and opportunities.

HERA and its partners launched HERA Materna, the world’s first ever heat-pregnancy insurance program. Extreme heat is threatening pregnant women on the frontlines of the climate crisis, and until now no financial protection has existed to shield them.

Smog from wildfires is getting worse across much of the U.S., according to a NASA-funded study.

Most people know that heat waves can be dangerous. What they may not realize is that the heat indoors can be much worse than outdoors.

For the first time, the World Risk Poll has measured not just how people around the world view the threat of climate change, but also whether they believe their fellow citizens feel the same.

This strategy aims to strengthen national and county governments’ financial capacity to manage disaster risks across the DRM continuum, protect vulnerable groups, safeguard development gains, build resilience, and maintain fiscal stability.

Even as global rates of workplace injury are declining, action is still needed to reduce harm amongst the most vulnerable. There are also signs of complacency in the face of rising harm from food, drinking water and poor air quality.

Climate change is increasing human-snake encounters, even as many countries remain ill-equipped to treat victims

While populations in continental regions are predominantly exposed to seasonal cumulative excess heat, many populations in tropical and subtropical climates are chronically exposed to high temperatures and high humidity.

This report explores public perceptions of the threat of climate change - perceptions that are shaped by people’s lived experience of risk in their daily lives as much as by scientific evidence.

When we see a forest fire on the news, it is easy to think of it as a local emergency. A new CMCC study shows that smoke from Italian forest fires can travel hundreds to even thousands of kilometers, carrying fine particles.

Fire-smart risk assessment is needed to tackle the scale of wildfire destruction, which is a growing reality across the globe. Hazardous fires are more intense and more frequent, fuelled both by climate change and human footprint.

Sporting events around the world are being impacted by extreme weather, including heat and heavy rainfall, and tennis is no exception.

This study investigates the asymmetric economic impacts of climate extremes on the Italian agricultural sector.

This report presents a comparative synthesis of how stakeholders in three Caribbean Small Island Developing States — Belize, Grenada, and Jamaica — value the core attributes of pre-arranged financing (PAF) for sovereign disaster risk.

This report presents the first cross-country study to use a structured simulation to elicit how policymakers in five African countries value the core attributes of pre-arranged financing (PAF) systems for disaster response.

This brief reviews the empirical evidence on the barriers women face in adapting to climate change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. A

This policy brief presents the first cross-country study of what governments want from pre-arranged financing (PAF) — funding secured in advance to respond to disasters.

This study argues that heat research and practice have focused too narrowly on heat waves as acute, episodic emergencies, obscuring the chronic exposure of billions of people to dangerous levels of heat for months at a time.

This World Bank Development Report examines how rising climate risks are reshaping the competitiveness of firms across the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAAP) region.

In more than a century of operation, the authorities that manage the Panama Canal have accumulated some valuable lessons in risk governance that are relevant to other major infrastructure systems – and to disaster risk reduction more broadly.

The flagship report presents cross-country, firm-level evidence on the tangible impact rising temperatures and climate-related trade policies have on financial markets.

Introduced in the name of player safety, hydration breaks at the World Cup have become a flashpoint for fans and players alike.

This paper provides a summary review of the collection of parametric case studies. The paper highlights key takeaways from the case studies, including how solutions are already delivering rapid liquidity after disasters, & closing critical protection gaps

This paper presents the outcomes of an initial investigation into the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems in translating high-stakes messages.

This guidance note provides a practical framework for integrating climate change adaptation into water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programming in humanitarian settings.

Experts say when people receive too many warnings, especially for events that do not directly affect them, they begin to tune them out.

This report focuses on two concrete and immediate examples of how heat- and trade-related policies in destination markets affect firms and the broader economy of the MENAAP region.

This study has investigated the deployment of takaful for farmers in flood- and drought-prone regions in Nigeria. The study used a quantitative research design with cross-sectional survey data from smallholder farmers in some climate-prone zones

This article gives insight into the implementation of European Drought Impact Database (EDID), its structure and attributes, and provides an analysis of the content.

The study examines the main impacts of the 2015/16 and 2023/24 El Niño events on drought, flooding, displacement, and the agriculture sector.

In Belize, the value of early warnings is now being shown not only through the lives and livelihoods they help protect, but also through the economic benefits they bring.

Across Africa, the impacts of climate change are often felt first and most severely by low-income communities living in informal settlements.

Studies of the aftermath of fast-moving wildfires like the Carr Fire in Shasta County and the Camp Fire in Butte County , both in 2018, show that blazes can flatten entire neighborhoods, leaving only one or two houses standing.

As California’s population boomed — from 10 million in 1950 to over 40 million today — the number of people living in fire-prone areas multiplied.

This policy paper analyses the mainstreaming of climate resilience into Mongolia's transport infrastructure before the bulk of the country's planned network is built.

It’s predicted that within the next three to four months, an El Niño weather pattern could impact parts of the Pacific, including the world’s third-smallest country, Naoero (formerly Nauru).

With more than 6.5 million fans from over 100 countries converging on cities across the United States, Mexico, and Canada for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the public health stakes are significant.

By mapping shade, a new online tool calculates the best way to stroll a city without overheating.

Developing economies in Asia and the Pacific are caught in a dangerous feedback loop: rising debt burdens are constraining their ability to invest in climate action, while climate shocks are worsening fiscal pressures and increasing debt risks.

The Multi-Hazard Early Warnings for All (EW4All) Roadmap for Samoa 2026–2036 outlines Samoa’s strategy for strengthening its national early warning systems to better prepare for and respond to natural hazards and climate-related disasters.

This study investigates the use of unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) techniques for rapid damage assessment during disasters.

The report offers a snapshot of how health-related Loss and Damage is reflected in national climate policy documents, examining the extent to which physical health, mental health, and health systems are integrated into climate planning and action.

This report examines how national legal frameworks and international cooperation can help prevent future zoonotic pandemics, with a particular focus on the role of wildlife trade in the emergence and spread of infectious diseases.