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Historic commercial buildings on Milk Market Road in historic city center of Bridgetown, Barbados
Opportunities

Apply now to showcase how your business is building resilience to climate change through real-world action and measurable impact.

World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Update

Finnish satellite company ICEYE and Louisiana's The Water Institute are combining ICEYE's synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observations with FloodID, a predictive flood-intelligence platform.

Forbes Media LLC
Update

Above-average rainfall is needed across England for the next seven months for all areas to recover from drought by spring 2027, according to research.

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Update

Jeannette Sutton and Eddie Bertola break down USGS ShakeAlert, earthquake early warnings, Wireless Emergency Alerts, and the technology that can warn people before strong shaking arrives.

The Alerting Authority
Albania strengthens Loss & Damage data capacities through DELTA Training
Update

Albania is strengthening its capacities to collect, manage, analyse and use disaster loss and damage data through the DELTA Resilience platform, with a technical training held in Tirana on 17 September 2026.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
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More than 3,600 people are staying in 37 holding centres across Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading districts. No major outbreak has been reported, but cases of colds, coughs and viral fever are common.

The Kathmandu Post
Brown cows graze on green meadow near forest on summer day, close-up.
Update

Small, nimble cows are being deployed in Galicia to lower wildfire risk by doing what they do best: eating.

Reasons to be Cheerful
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Britain’s railway system has already been under stress from extreme heat this summer, with several operators reducing timetables and train speeds.

Guardian, the (UK)
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The nature‑based solutions for urban heat are specifically designed for neighborhoods and communities because the standard will provide users with tools and techniques to identify areas where nature‑based solutions can be most effectively implemented.

ASTM International
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Kampala Capital City Authority has intensified flood preparedness across the city as Uganda braces for increased rainfall, with the Ministry of Water and Environment warning of a high likelihood of El Niño conditions during the Sept-Dec rainfall season.

Kampala Capital City Authority
Update

Vermont recognized the ongoing flood exposure facing the state with the passing of July 10, a now-infamous date for Vermont.

Vermont league of cities & towns
Update

More than half of reporting companies provide no core quantitative metrics, raising concerns over their ability to measure nature-related risks and potential greenwashing.

Eco-Business
Research briefs

Extreme heat has become more common—as both research and lived experience show—but when it arrives is a different question.

Columbia Climate School
Update

Sustained high temperatures may crimp yields while high humidity could raise risks of crop diseases

The Business Times
A boat in drought-affected lake
Research briefs

A study suggests that isotopes can provide an early warning of prolonged droughts. This study is one of the first in over 30 years to utilize isotopic techniques in Amazonian hydroclimatic research.

São Paulo Research Foundation (Agência FAPESP)
Update

Rising sea levels and storm surges could cost $855 billion in economic losses across Australia by the end of the century, according to new Australian-first research.

University of Melbourne
The Bagmati River flood in Kathmandu, 2024.
Update

On August 26, the side of a mountain near the border between Nepal and Tibet collapsed. Seven billion cubic feet of glacial ice and rock, enough to fill 100 football stadiums, crashed roughly a mile straight down into the river below.

Grist Magazine
A group of kindergarten students focus on their teacher at 2017 Seoul International Book Fair (SIBF), Republic of Korea.
Update

Children across Europe have returned to school after a summer of extreme heat. As the climate warms, one question is becoming harder to ignore: how can students learn when classrooms become dangerously hot?

Conversation Media Group, the
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Unusual heat this year may have melted ice and thawed bonds that hold glaciers in place – leading to catastrophe

Guardian, the (UK)
Assessing the consequences of compound coastal–fluvial flooding under climate change: exposure, vulnerability and damage estimates in eastern England thumbnail
Documents and publications

This study applied an integrated flood risk assessment framework to evaluate climate-driven compound flood risk in Broadland, with particular emphasis on how methodological choices influence exposure, damage and spatial risk estimates.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
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August was the hottest month of the year, with an average temperature of 25.6 C, up 5.2 ​C from the 1951-1980 average and 3.5 C ​above the 1991-2020 norm, according to Italy's research public body.

Thomson Reuters
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The Nepal disaster is not only a warning about a changing Himalaya. It exposes why societies fail to act on risks they already understand.

Down To Earth
Update

Wildland firefighting is increasingly facing an intractable reality: We’re stuck in a vicious cycle. A doom loop.

Grist Magazine
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Glacier retreat, expanding glacial lakes, thawing permafrost and unstable slopes are increasing the risk of disasters in the Himalayas.

Mongabay
Update

The drought of 2026 is not yet over, and some of its effects are already visible. There are economic consequences for agriculture, transport and industry. But there are also consequences that are less visible and may have long-term effects.

Deltares
Two beavers in the water
Update

Beavers are often called ecosystem engineers. They fell small trees, build dams and dig channels. Water backs up behind their dams, spills across the valley bottom and soaks into the surrounding soil.

Conversation Media Group, the
Group photo of participants in the Africa Early Warnings Forum, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Press release

The Africa Early Warnings Forum, held in Addis Ababa, highlighted Africa's progress in expanding early warning systems, but with climate and disaster risks accelerating, the task now is to translate that progress into protection for everyone.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
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Launching this fall, the Southwest Florida Accelerator will focus on climate resilience and sustainability.

Babcock Ranch
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The exact sequence of events that sent so much debris and water downstream is something we are still trying to unravel. There are a number of possibilities.

Conversation Media Group, the
Vacancy
Cairo
Closing date
This is a project post. Appointment or assignment against this position is for an initial period of one year. The incumbent reports to the Deputy Chief, under the overall authority of the Chief of the Regional Office.
Update

More than 260 young leaders from across the Arab region participated virtually in the Regional Youth Resilience Lab.

United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth, Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group
Earthquake damage in Colombia
Statements and messages

Statement on the Colombia Earthquake by Kamal Kishore, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of UNDRR

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Update

Nurses are collapsing during shifts amid “inhumane and impossible” conditions caused by extreme heat, their union has warned.

Guardian, the (UK)
Research briefs

A study paints a fuller picture of how heat affects respiratory health, especially in Baltimore’s socially vulnerable neighborhoods.

Eos - AGU
Research briefs

Research shows that fast-moving forest fires burn more severely, making it harder for forests to recover.

Colorado State University
Update

Scarred by the devastating 2025 floods, people with HIV are increasingly vulnerable

Dialogue Earth
Remaining puddle in a dried lake
Update

Through an Early Action Protocol funded by the IFRC, the Colombian Red Cross is implementing anticipatory measures in the departments of Tolima and Cesar before the drought reaches its critical point.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Vessels queuing to enter the Panama Canal
Research briefs

The economic ramifications of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz are much discussed. But so far, the risk of ecological damage following a long blockade of ships has been overlooked.

Conversation Media Group, the
Training event
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In person
This is a joint winter school organized and hosted by the University of Twente and of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Meetings and conferences
Online
This is a global virtual round table organized by TecHive Association to examine how disaster management systems, leaders and communities can prepare for situations in which demands exceed institutional capacity.
Update

Malaysia's Securities Commission plans to ask companies to disclose how they are preparing for El Nino amid concerns the country's businesses may be ill prepared for the fallout from the ​weather phenomenon, chairman Mohammad Faiz Azmi told Reuters.

Thomson Reuters
Vacancy
Lima
Closing date
Under the operational supervision of the Team Lead, the successful candidate will be responsible for providing administrative, financial and logistical support to the project.
Update

A NASA, UCSD and NOAA collaboration uses machine learning on satellite navigation data to detect sudden atmospheric moisture spikes, flagging likely flash floods for forecasters in as little as fifteen minutes.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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MIT's Climate Grand Challenges has produced 29 papers and a set of digital tools now reaching deployment, helping communities, emergency agencies and insurers assess local flood, cyclone and heat risk and plan infrastructure accordingly.

MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Researchers at IIT Madras have built a standalone application that uses thousands of years of earthquake data to calculate site-specific seismic risk for India's 6,500-plus large dams, helping authorities prioritise urgent safety upgrades.

Research Matters
Mangrove Forest shutterstock
Update

Mozambique's Productive Social Action Programme has reached more than 300,000 people by combining cash transfers with skills training and community works such as coastal reforestation, helping climate-exposed families build lasting livelihoods.

World Bank, the
Meetings and conferences
Mombasa
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In person
The Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Action will take place under the theme: "Transforming Risk into Resilience: Institutionalizing Anticipatory Action through Localisation, Multi-Stakeholder Coordination, Sustainable Financing and Evidence-Driven Policy
Meetings and conferences
Bangkok
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In person
The Global Heat Forum is the premier global gathering on heat, health and climate resilience. Join us in unlocking solutions to the growing challenge of extreme heat.
Vacancy
Closing date
All nationals demonstrating 8 years of international work experience in at least 5 countries across 2 UN geographic regions would be considered for international positions (international hire).