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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.”

In this report scientists project that global land temperatures will be 1.2°C/2.1° F above normal in the coming months due in large part to the current “Super El Niño” that began in June and is expected to last through Northern Hemisphere spring.

This paper critically examines the potential for leveraging the U.S. emergency management (EM) enterprise to enhance national resilience to future acute climate risks.

This study examines policy and provision for working donkeys in Kenya and Ethiopia, countries severely affected by drought and heavily reliant on donkeys for community resilience.

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the current alerting systems for hot and cold weather used in England to notify the health and social care sector of upcoming extreme weather events.

This paper suggests that reoccupation of the Nepal mountains can be explained at least in part by the governing instruments under which the asset was licensed, contracted and financed.

Heavy rainfall can cause spikes in bacterial pollution in bathing waters due to overflows from combined sewer systems (CSOs). Researchers can now track the spread of bacteria from sewer system to coastal waters, enabling prediction of pollution risks.

Extreme heat is becoming an operating condition. Keeping power, water and essential services running requires coordinated planning, data-sharing, governance and investment. The choices made now will shape resilience and competitiveness for years to come.

Peru built world-renowned defenses against glacial floods, before decentralisation and financial austerity caused them to crumble. After an era of impressive progress on preventative measures, hundreds of Peru’s glacial lakes are now at risk of bursting

Coastal flooding seems like an unpredictable event, a natural disaster that occurs randomly. But UCF researcher Ivan Haigh has found that recurrent coastal floods actually occur at highly predictable times.

This Technical Handbook guides North Macedonia’s Resilient Recovery Framework, consolidating EU-aligned evidence and tools, urging legal, institutional, and data reforms, and detailing stepwise, people-centered approaches for risk-informed recovery.

This editorial explores how AI, Earth Observation data and cloud platforms support disaster risk reduction, highlighting 25 studies on hazards, risk assessment, early warning, response and recovery, and future directions for responsible AI.

The interaction of land subsidence with urbanization, reclamation and climate variability in contributing to massive flooding must also be examined, along with possible governance failures in light of increasing flood risk in Philippines.

National Emergency Telecommunication Plans help governments, operators and responders maintain communications before, during and after disasters, strengthening preparedness, early warning, response and recovery while building resilience.

This review examines climate change in Türkiye, its effects on health and cancer care, and the role of oncology nurses in adaptation, disaster preparedness, environmental health awareness, and supporting patients during climate-related crises.

This paper analyses 18 global case studies of healthcare systems facing extreme weather events and identifies four resilience pathways, showing that resilience depends on cross-scale adaptive capacity, coordination, workforce support and recovery systems.

For scientists, central question is not whether earthquakes will return to Kashmir. Geological history makes that virtually inevitable. Question is whether the region’s infrastructure, institutions, and communities will be better prepared when they do.

This report assesses climate hazards in Uganda’s Kikuube District, finding increasing drought stress, localized flood risk and rising temperatures. It recommends early warning systems, climate-smart agriculture, water management and resilience planning.

This paper proposes a Bridge Resilience System that integrates condition assessment, hazard exposure, vulnerability, risk, lifecycle costs and MCDM. A Kolhapur pilot shows that bridge resilience planning should extend beyond condition-based management.

This study examines the anticipatory action (AA) activations implemented before the 2025 Pakistan Floods and documents implementation experiences, operational learning, and lessons from these activations.

This paper examines how temporary community facilities can instead operate as longer-term recovery assets by analyzing the Kumamoto Home-for-All Reutilization Project in Japan.

This scoping review of 176 studies from 41 countries found that heatwave-associated deaths are rarely coded as direct heat-related, while surveillance systems remain fragmented, highlighting the need for standardized and integrated monitoring.

This report provides a practical framework to help leaders assess where extreme heat risks are greatest across value chains, which interventions will deliver value and how to embed resilience into daily operations. I

Human Nature spotlights solutions protecting water and strengthening local economies, from Arkansas Delta wetlands to Iowa farm fields and Mexican fishing communities.

This policy brief describes economic risks and adaptation opportunities for the UK in relation to agriculture, flood and coastal management, health and labour productivity.

This study examines how prior hazard experiences shape community preparedness for future climate-related risks by linking census block group-level wind and rainfall exposures from eleven storms affecting Louisiana during 2017–2021.