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Displaying 15 of about 949 resultsIn this publication researchers conduct an appraisal of the Glacial lake outburst flood (GLOFs) risks by combining high-resolution satellite images, case-by-case high-precision GLOF modeling, and detailed downstream exposure data. Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) are among the most severe cryospheric hazards in the Third Pole, encompassing the Tibet…
Can a volcano erupt after tens of thousands of years of dormancy? If so, how can this be explained and what makes volcanic eruptions more dangerous, i.e. explosive? These are key questions in volcanic hazard assessment and can also draw attention to volcanoes that appear to be inactive. Even in a quiet dormant phase, a volcano can rapidly become active…
This report is a companion piece to the Major Incidents Report 2022–23, drawing upon some of these findings. Using the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) societal, economic, environmental, geopolitical, technological risk categories, and their global risk projections for 2022, a range of factors were identified as potentially having an influence on an individ…
XDI has analysed over 200,000 hospitals around the world for risk of damage from 6 different climate change hazards from 1990 until the end of the century. The risk arising from two different emissions scenarios (i) RCP 8.5 (around 4.3 ºC) and RCP 2.6 (1.8 ºC or under) was compared. The analysis was published ahead of the inaugural Health Day at the COP…
With climate change and an incipient El Niño driving up temperatures, 2024 is likely to eclipse 2023 as the hottest year ever, meteorologists project.According to the World Meteorological Organization, the first 10 months of this year measured 1.40 degrees C warmer than the preindustrial baseline, a product of both human-caused warming and, to a lesser…
Today Deltares presented the annual calculation of the sea level on the Dutch coast. The last, more comprehensive, four-yearly, report noted for the first time, in addition to the worldwide observation, an acceleration in sea level rise along the Dutch coast. That conclusion has been confirmed now that the data for 2022 have been added. The sea lev…
The Dominican Republic Country Climate and Development Report (CDRR) employs a version of the MANAGE model. This CCDR further extends the model to incorporate the path of emissions from key sectors (transport, energy, AFOLU), and to incorporate DR‑specific climate damage functions to introduce the impact of climate change on the economy. The Dominican R…
Karakorum, the world’s second highest mountain range, has seen the highest number of recurrent recorded glacial lake outburst floods in High Mountain Asia.A new dataset, released by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development today, is a repository of over 700 glacial lake outburst floods dating back almost two centuries, and including…
The disappearance of the ephemeral lake has made earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault even more unpredictable. In the arid expanse of what is today Southern California, a vast lake once waxed and waned. Lake Cahuilla spanned thousands of square kilometers before drying away to nothing and then reappearing in a decades-long cycle that repeated ov…
At its highest point, the Republic of the Marshall Islands(RMI) stands at two metres above sea level. As people of a low-lying atoll nation, the Marshallese face an existential threat from climate change impacts, specifically sea level rise.According to the IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC), sea level rise will c…
The summer of 2022 was the hottest summer ever recorded in Europe and was characterised by an intense series of record-breaking heat waves, droughts and forest fires. While Eurostat, the European statistical office, already reported unusually high excess mortality for those dates, until now the fraction of mortality attributable to heat had not been qua…
One of the main risks posed by climate change is exceeding the thermal limits of the human body. In hot environments, evaporation is considered to be the primary means by which human bodies cool down. However, atmospheric humidity is a crucial factor affecting the efficiency of evaporation, making the combination of hot and humid conditions more physiol…
This paper explores the history and prehistory of tsunamis in the Hawaiian archipelago, while proposing methods to narrow the gaps in our current understanding of their impacts. The Hawaiian Islands have a long history of destructive and deadly tsunamis from both distant and local sources. Gaining a more detailed understanding of the historical record o…
The World Meteorological Organization is supporting the first ever International Day of Combating Sand and Dust Storms to draw attention to the significant impacts on the environment, socio-economic well-being and health. It coincides with another major intrusion of Saharan dust into the Mediterranean and across the Atlantic to the Caribbean.When…
The frequency of sand and dust storms (SDS) is on the rise in various regions across the globe. This rise is attributed to factors such as human-driven climate change, desertification, land degradation, and persistent droughts. These storms occur when strong winds lift large amounts of sand and dust from dry, arid soils into the atmosphere. They of…