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High-intensity tropical cyclones have been moving closer to coasts over the past 40 years, potentially causing more destruction than before.
The trend of tropical cyclones – commonly known as hurricanes or typhoons – increasingly moving towards coasts over the past 40 years appears to be driven by a westward shift in their tracks, sa…
One of Brazil’s worst environmental disasters - a dam collapse that also killed more than 200 people - could have been foreseen with the right monitoring technology, according to a new study by the University of Nottingham and Durham University.
The high-profile catastrophe took place on 25 January 2019 at a tailings dam near the Córrego do Feijão iron…
By Sean Fleming
Billions are at risk of missing out on the digital leap forward, as growing disparities challenge the social fabric.
In the medium-term, the global economy will be threatened by the knock-on effects of the coronavirus crisis, while geopolitical stability will be critically fragile over the next 5 to 10 years.
Environmental risks con…
Amman – In a notable example of cross-regional collaboration, UN-Habitat kicked-off the implementation of the participatory City Resilience Action Planning tool (CityRAP), in its ‘light’ version in Amman, Jordan.
The tool has been modified to specifically address the issue of flashfloods in downtown Amman and was delivered through a hybrid virtual…
By Tilo Arnold
Leipzig researchers identify previously unknown drought period from historical sources.
The transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age was apparently accompanied by severe droughts between 1302 and 1307 in Europe; this preceded the wet and cold phase of the 1310s and the resulting great famine of 1315–21. In the jour…
Fooding’s are the most common and devastating types of natural disasters – causing significant social, economic and environmental consequences. However, the impacts of flooding events are often exacerbated by lacking data and information to support informed emergency response and flood protection measures. DHI's new Flood Metrics portal is all about mak…
By Rina Chandran
BANGKOK, Jan 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The effects rising heat has on vulnerable workers in Southeast Asia is the focus of a new study that also aims to find out what employers and authorities can do to reduce the impact of soaring temperatures in cities.
The three-year study, led by the National University of Singapore (NUS),…
By Yadu Pokhrel
The world watched with a sense of dread in 2018 as Cape Town, South Africa, counted down the days until the city would run out of water. The region’s surface reservoirs were going dry amid its worst drought on record, and the public countdown was a plea for help.
By drastically cutting their water use, Cape Town residents and farmers w…
By Mark Maund, Kim Maund, Marcus Jefferies, SueAnne Ware
In cities around the world, temperatures could rise by more than 4℃ by 2100 under a high-emissions climate change scenario, suggests research published this week in Nature Climate Change.
It comes as the Bureau of Meteorology’s annual climate statement, released today, shows 2020 was Australia’s…
By Victoria Petersen
An hour before sundown on Dec. 2, Lilly Ford and her family heard a “strange, low rumble” outside of her home in Haines, Alaska. It lasted about a minute as a 600-foot-wide slurry of timber, mud, soil and debris cascaded down a nearby mountain, through a residential area, and into the ocean. “I couldn’t believe the mountain had swe…
Sri Lanka’s smallholder farmers are faced with increasing risks related to the impacts of climate change, which threaten their agricultural yields and livelihoods.
Risk has always been a factor for farmers, and there are many traditional methods of risk management that have been developed over generations, including cultivation techniques, crop varie…
Juba - to improve reporting performance and capacity to detect outbreaks, the World Health Organization (WHO) supported the Ministry of Health (MoH) to review the progress and achievements of the integrated disease surveillance and response (IDSR) program in South Sudan during 2020, with the aim of developing tailored strategies to improve program perfo…
By Mita Uthaman, Arun Singh, Chandrani Singh, Arun Dubey, and Gaurav Kumar
India is on the move and has been for a while. For the past 120 million years, since India and Africa began to split apart (leaving Madagascar in between), the tectonic plate on which India sits has been moving northward. This relentless movement, along with the region’s complex…
By Margreet van Marle
There are hundreds of wildfires annually in the Netherlands. Researchers from Deltares, Wageningen Environmental Research and the Institute for Physical Safety (IFV) looked ahead to 2050 and found a doubling of the possible places where wildfires could occur.
The fire susceptibility maps were recently included in the Climate Impa…
The world is changing rapidly, and the past is no longer a guide to the future in terms of extreme events and floods.
By Ashleigh Mattern
That’s one of the findings from a paper on the Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN), a summary of the research program that wrapped up in 2018 and which recently compiled many of its scientific advances i…