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A new research study has shown that informal settlements on the margins of urban areas were severely impacted by landslides in a rainfall event in February 2023.

Three new regions - Assam (India), Louga (Senegal), and Pernambuco (Brazil) - have joined the Race to Resilience campaign through RegionsAdapt, committing to enhance climate resilience.

In Belém, the capital of the state of Pará, the climate crisis has contributed to extreme heat events and rising sea levels, threatening urban infrastructure and increasing the vulnerability of the poorest populations.

The heat that Brazilians will experience in the coming days has a clear connection to climate change, with forecasted high temperatures made 5 times more likely due to global warming, primarily caused by burning fossil fuels.

Unprecedented wildfires in Canada and parts of Amazonia last year were at least three times more likely due to climate change and contributed to high levels of CO2 emissions from burning globally, according to the first edition of a new systematic review.

So far this year, wildfires are believed to have burned more than 1.3 million hectares of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland and a hotspot of biodiversity.

In the wake of last month’s disastrous flooding in southern Brazil, researchers are asking residents to use their smartphone cameras to document the damage and high-water marks.

In May 2024 Brazil's State of Rio Grande do Sul was struck by catastrophic floods. The city of Veranópolis was one of the affected towns and our Risk Management Plan, set up as part of its implementation of MCR2030 programme, was put to the test.