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This article explores the concept of risk communication, highlighting the lack of a unified definition and proposing a transdisciplinary, complex-thinking approach to better understand it.

A study in Brazil links higher temperatures to worse nutrition measures in vulnerable children.

How do we prevent the climate crisis from reversing decades of progress on poverty reduction?

This study proposes a hydrological hazard map for Porto Alegre as a reliable and accessible tool to support government planning and risk management.

Study covering five major economies finds smaller communities face the longest economic recoveries, with damage persisting for up to four months.

Study finds nature‑based solutions can match or exceed traditional engineering for landslide risk reduction in Salvador’s informal settlements, at lower cost and with added social and ecological benefits.

The Forensic Investigations of Disasters (FORIN) guide provides important approaches for research and extension purposes in order to understand and reduce disaster risks.

Researchers collaborated to assess the extent to which human-induced climate change altered the likelihood and intensity of the heavy rainfall event that caused the landslides.