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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.

Climate change could push UK rivers to dangerous extremes and see more frequent rapid swings between wet and dry conditions – a phenomenon known as hydroclimatic whiplash – according to research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA).

Using data from FIFA, Brown epidemiologists developed a tracking tool aimed at assisting public health experts in the event of an infectious disease outbreak.

The Nationwide Simultaneous Earthquake Drill, organised by the Southeast Asian country's Office of Civil Defense, aims to brace the population with better coordination, preparedness and resilience.

The ICP represents a step in the right direction. It marks a departure from how major climate risk finance initiatives have typically operated, building inclusive planning into its architecture rather than treating it as an afterthought.

FAO and partners trained over 150 veterinarians, park rangers, park guides, and porters to strengthen their capacities in Ebola Virus Disease preparedness and response.

Barbuda has moved a step closer to achieving internationally recognized Tsunami Ready status after successfully completing a three-day exercise focused on disaster preparedness, public education, and emergency response.

This study provides a global analysis of multi-hazard exposure and disparities in socio-economic vulnerabilities using data on hazard co-occurrence and population distribution for the period 2004–2017.

In India and Bangladesh, two recent changes of government on either side of the border have brought two shared river systems into focus: the Ganges and the Teesta.

Inside the narrow lanes of Shahbad Dairy, a suburb outside north-west Delhi, is a concrete maze of houses packed tightly together. Trees are scarce.

People in parts of Papua New Guinea are facing an unusual problem. Floating volcanic rock is making boat travel difficult, blocking access to fishing grounds and disrupting daily life in coastal communities.

There is a quiet contradiction at the heart of natural hazard science. The regions most exposed to multi-hazard events are precisely the regions where we know the least.

This solutions brief shares practical and replicable local knowledge of this approach in Nij Goddimari village in Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh, a community which faces chronic flooding and waterlogging due to its proximity to the Saniajan River.

This report provides a consolidated regional assessment, with authoritative information on key climate indicators, impacts and risks to support decision-making.

Extreme weather and climate-related events affected at least 13 million people and led to over 3 000 reported fatalities in Africa in 2025, with knock-on effects across all sectors of the economy and society.

This casebook highlights the implementation of science and technology-based disaster management, featuring 24 Korean practices across four thematic areas, along with Korea's success factors and remaining challenges. It is available in English and Korean.

This report highlights a significant gap in dedicated public financing for heat resilience In India.

Beaches, ports and, during extreme events, even the railway line that runs through the Cinque Terre National Park are at risk.

This paper presents a deep-learning framework that learns from existing records to produce a spatially complete 30-m flood hazard map for the contiguous US, filling unmapped regions and updating legacy extents.

This study conducted field research and theoretical calculations to gain an overall understanding of the seismic performance of these buildings.

This study develops an integrated, stochastic modeling framework to quantify three distinct agricultural flood-damage aspects—prevented planting, unharvested acreage, and yield loss—in Chariton County, Missouri.

Hot, dry conditions set the stage, but it takes a short-lived local window of opportunity to produce an extreme wildfire

When heat waves hit the Western United States, the risk of wildfires quickly rises. The prolonged heat dries out vegetation, but that’s only part of the cause – heat waves also play other roles in spreading wildfires.

This is defined as the strongest El Niño event you can get, and happens when sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean rise by more than 2°C.

Beaches, ports and, during extreme events, even the railway line that runs through the Cinque Terre National Park are at risk.

There is a need for methods that can sustain reliable forecasting using potentially incomplete or unavailable sensor data to help limit downtime at power plants and maintain continuity during periods of sensor disruption.

As climate change risks increase, insurance premiums are rising, making coverage unaffordable for many, especially those in high-risk areas.

A new study calculates the dollar value of wetlands in reducing river flooding. But in Sackett vs. EPA, the high court rolled back protections for nature’s first line of defense.

From drought preparedness in Africa to institutional strengthening in Kyrgyzstan and post-conflict recovery planning in the agricultural sector in Lebanon, explore how loss and damage data is being used as a resource for decision-making.

Depopulation in the state’s coastal communities has been significant since Hurricane Katrina, an extremely powerful and destructive storm that hit the state in August 2005. It was responsible for 1833 deaths and approximately $108 billion in damage.

The GEM 2026 products update and expand the global view of seismic hazard and risk to include infrastructure exposure to liquefaction, future risk trajectories, and the carbon cost of earthquake damage and reconstruction.

Beyond helping emergency managers better alert downstream communities to flooding events, tracking rapid runoff allows water managers to improve reservoir management.

Syria became one of the earliest countries to implement UNDRR's DELTA Resilience system, which will help it better understand and reduce the disaster risks it faces as it recovers from years of war.