Risk identification and assessment

There is a need for methods that can sustain reliable forecasting using potentially incomplete or unavailable sensor data to help limit downtime at power plants and maintain continuity during periods of sensor disruption.

The GEM 2026 products update and expand the global view of seismic hazard and risk to include infrastructure exposure to liquefaction, future risk trajectories, and the carbon cost of earthquake damage and reconstruction.

In 1900, coastal communities could expect certain extreme water level events to occur on average once in a century; in other words there was only a 1% chance to experience such an event in any given year.

Dangerous heat, devastating rainfall and flooding, and severe drought affected millions of people across Asia in 2025, exacting a heavy human and economic toll.

The WMO State of the Climate in Asia 2025 reports that ocean heat, which has increased since the 1990s, reached a new record.

The researchers developed a novel method that detects elevation changes between two successive high-resolution lidar-derived digital elevation models and analyzes these changes to identify cover-collapse sinkholes that occurred over a defined time frame.

Understanding and monitoring extreme thermal conditions – shaped by a combination of temperature, humidity, sunshine, and wind speed – is essential to help protect human life.

This study examines the relationship between hydrometeorological disasters and climate variability modes using disaster event ratios from the Indonesian National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) for 2008–2023 in Indonesia.