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Displaying 45 of about 73 resultsEvery Thursday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time, the U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) publishes a map of drought conditions across the United States. Established in 2000, the USDM combines measurements of physical variables like soil moisture and runoff with reports of drought effects like fallow fields and reductions in municipal water supply. Though generated by…
Amid the surge of extreme weather events globally, billions of dollars are pouring into developing cutting-edge weather forecasting models based on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Leading tech giants, such as Google and IBM, are spearheading efforts for more precise and expedited forecasting.In India, climate scientists have also…
On February 20, a dedicated team of researchers presented a new high-resolution calving front dataset from 149 glaciers in Svalbard spanning from 1985 to 2023. This innovative dataset, featured in the Earth System Science Data journal, offers an important tool to better understand the mechanisms behind glacier calving, or the breakup of icebergs, w…
The global push to weave disability inclusion into governmental strategies, disaster risk reduction (DRR) plans, and humanitarian efforts has seen notable progress in recent years. Yet, the lack of detailed data on the prevalence of disability remains an obstacle. This thwarts efforts to fully understand and address the needs of persons with disabilitie…
The present study proposes a methodology to map the flood physical vulnerability and applies it using an index at urban parcel scale for a medium-sized town (Ponferrada, Spain). This index is based on multiple indicators fed by geographical open-source data, once they have been normalized and combined with different weights extracted from an Analytic Hi…
At 23:59 (BJT) on 18 December 2023, a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Jishishan County, Linxia Zhou, Gansu province, with a depth of 10 km. The earthquake resulted in the tragic loss of 113 lives, injuries to 536 individuals, and extensive damage to 155,393 houses, as reported as of 13:00 (BJT) on 22 December 2023. In response, the CBAS initiated emerge…
The network of Drought Observatories in the EU provides technical and scientific support to further drought impact data collection and analysis, and develop tailored sectoral and a regionally disaggregated drought risk assessments. These initiatives represent an urgently needed first step in the transition from a mostly hazard-based assessment of drough…
2023 was the hottest year on record. Humidity is rising too. Heat and humidity are a dangerous combination, threatening all aspects of our lives and livelihoods.Climate change is pushing humid heat dangerously close to the upper limits of what people can survive. Parts of the world are on track for conditions beyond the limits of human tolerance.Yet our…
This study unveils diverse disaster risk trends and patterns, revealing variations in hazards, vulnerability, and coping capacity across African countries by utilizing the INFORM risk model data spanning from 2012 to 2022. The research identifies countries with both ascending and descending disaster risk trends, providing insights into the dynamic natur…
A framework for combining climate and social data could help scientists better support climate change adaptation ahead of future weather-related disasters.The Washington State University-led research draws on the expertise of climate and social scientists to show how data on different characteristics of climate variability can be used to study the effec…
The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is in the process of empanelment of Technical Experts (National & International) who can develop the Terms of Reference for the designing and developing of a new website for the Coalition for Disaster Resilient InfrastructureDetails regarding the eligibility, experience, requirements, and pa…
As climate-driven flooding becomes more common, policymakers and the public are more frequently confronted with two questions: whether to rebuild in flood-prone areas and who should be responsible for the cost repairing or replacing damaged homes and infrastructure. We wanted to know more about how the American public responds to arguments that support…
The record high global average temperatures observed in 2023 have shown the importance of closely monitoring our climate. To make climate monitoring more intuitive and available to everyone, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S*) presents Climate Pulse, a new interactive application that gives a concise and precise picture of the near-real time st…
A new NbS Knowledge Hub to help scale nature-based solutions in the UK has been launched today, developed by researchers from the Nature-based Solutions Initiative (NbSI) and Agile Initiative as part of a 12-month interdisciplinary research sprint.Working with external stakeholders, through the Agile Initiative sprint funding, members of NbSI have launc…
IntroductionIn an era increasingly defined by the urgent challenge of climate change, the quest for innovative and effective ways to foster resilience, hope, and empowerment has never been more critical. Traditional narratives and scientific data, while essential, often contribute to a sense of overwhelming anxiety, particularly among younger generation…