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US 7 million dollars in funding for a new three-year project in the Caribbean region has been granted by the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) Initiative.

While most attention surrounding El Niño focuses on drier conditions and water shortages, cascading effects impact food and energy production, air quality, human health and more.

For this new study, the researchers focused on the history of atmospheric rivers dumping rain on California. Leonard Lake in northern California was chosen due to its relatively stable history going back thousands of years and its geographical features.

New work finds hurricanes are intensifying faster close to the coast—a trend that’s likely to ramp up in a warmer world

When a 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck the Cianjur district in Indonesia’s West Java province in November 2022, more than 13,000 students at private religious schools were thrown out of their classrooms because of severe damage to their buildings.

The time to conduct extensive research and develop policies based on calm, reasoned judgements is now, when the last pandemic is behind us and the next is yet to come.

The Government of São Tomé and Príncipe is poised to harness insights from the report, address sector-specific impacts, and strategically allocate funds for maintenance and fresh investments.

As developing countries transition from planning to implementation in their National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes, a critical step is securing financing to implement priority adaptation actions articulated through the NAP process.