1. Home
  2. Knowledge Base

Knowledge Base highlights and editors' picks

Top stories and editors' picks from the most recent additions. Explore the whole Knowledge Base.

Every week the PreventionWeb team of editors selects the latest news and research, reports and publications on disaster risk reduction – here is their selection of the latest must-read content.

Traditional bolivian woman in traditional dress, walking trought the Sun island in lake Titicaca, Bolivia
Update

Rethinking premium support for climate protection

Compared to other forms of support, premium support directly reduces the price of insurance and has the potential to provide a more direct route to financial protection. However, the current approach has yet to deliver sustainable impact.
Centre for Disaster Protection
An aerial view of the Mai Po nature reserve beside Shenzen City, China
Update

How to make climate adaptation a success

Climate change is forcing people to adapt to changing environmental conditions. But what really makes the difference is how they do it. The recently published Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 shows that only sustainable adaptation can succeed.
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
2020 floods in Wuhan China
Research briefs

Breakthrough study from IU scientists predicts catastrophic river shifts that threaten millions worldwide

This breakthrough study sheds light into the dangerous phenomenon of “river avulsion," a process that has shaped human history through devastating floods and continues to threaten millions of people worldwide.
Indiana University
A traffic officer drinks water during a hot day in Kolkata, India
Update

Cities will suffer health and infrastructure crisis under 3° C vs. 1.5° C warming, with low-income cities worst impacted

With over two-thirds of the world’s population expected to live in cities by 2050, new global data on the 1,000 largest cities highlights growing hazards and the urgent need for climate adaptation investment.
World Resources Institute
Heat Wave, Montreal
Update

What the jet stream and climate change had to do with the hottest summer on record − remember all those heat domes?

Temperature increases associated with human-induced climate change do not manifest as small, even increases everywhere on the planet. Rather, they result in more frequent and severe episodes of heat waves, as the world saw in 2024.
Conversation Media Group, the
Cyclists driving through flooded streets in Pekalongan, Indonesia (2021)
Update

Using data to safeguard vulnerable communities from climate risks

Analysis of geographically granular data is essential to identify vulnerable areas and optimize resource distribution.
Development Asia
Bangkok residents wade floods after heavy rains left the city inundated
Update

Epic floods are wreaking havoc from Africa to Asia to Europe

Three massive flood events across three continents have claimed over 1,500 lives and cost over $15 billion in September.
Yale Climate Connections
Cover
Documents and publications

Accelerating extreme heat responses: Perspectives from India

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net, titled 'Accelerating Extreme Heat Responses: Perspectives from India,' focuses on the critical challenge of extreme heat and heatwaves in India
Migrant workers walk on the highway on their journey back home during a nationwide lockdown to fight the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mumbai, India (2020)
Research briefs

Eight million climate migrants predicted to arrive in ten Global South cities by 2050 if emissions don’t fall

New study finds ten cities alone across three continents, from Bogotá (Colombia) and Amman (Jordan) to Freetown (Sierra Leone) and Karachi (Pakistan) should prepare for significant climate migration in coming years.
C40 Cities Secretariat
Woman walking through the flooded street in Nigeria with a yellow rain cape.
Update

Four ways Africa is already seeing the effects of climate change – and what can be done about it

The Conversation Africa has been tracking the impact of climate change on the African continent. These selected reads shed light on where some of these biggest climate impacts are already being felt and offer insights into how these can be mitigated.
Conversation Media Group, the
illustration
The DRR Knowledge Base
Explore the latest on disaster risk and resilience from around the world: news, research, policies and publications.

Subscribe to alerts

Get updates in your inbox

Contribute your content

The Knowledge Base is a collaborative effort of the DRR community, updated and reviewed daily by PreventionWeb editors.

Upload your content for review

Is this page useful?

Yes No
Report an issue on this page

Thank you. If you have 2 minutes, we would benefit from additional feedback (link opens in a new window).