Critical infrastructure

An analysis of El Niño's impacts on global supply chains, highlighting supplier, logistics, and trade-route vulnerabilities while providing tools to assess risks and improve resilience.

This article examines Iceland’s Short Message Service (SMS) avalanche warning service as an impact-based early warning system in the context of road safety.

Imagine if hospitals were overrun with respiratory events due to wildfire smoke, migraines, heatstroke and delirium. At the same time, the electricity grid could go down due to overwhelming demand from the use of air conditioning systems.

This scoping review examines health impacts of concurrent extreme heat and power outages, finding mixed evidence, with respiratory admissions and ambulance attendances among outcomes linked to outages; it calls for better monitoring and preparedness.

A tsunami warning is a race against time. A wave triggered close to shore can arrive within minutes, and when a volcano or landslide is the source, systems designed around earthquakes may register the threat late or not at all.

Climate change threatens aviation through extreme heat, turbulence, storms, flooding and shifting wind patterns, affecting aircraft performance, airport infrastructure and flight operations. The sector must adapt to maintain safe, efficient travel.

When the ground heats up, it expands and moves - putting strain on underground pipes which are already under pressure, causing them to buckle and split.

This study examines 2 major events of the summer bushfires during 2019–20 and the severe floods in new south Wales in 2022, and explores the outcomes of investments and efforts into shelter provision after disasters in Australia.

PAGASA has warned of a “very strong” El Niño peaking in December and persisting through the first half of 2027, bringing dry spells and drought to most of the Philippines while the monsoon brings flooding to the west.