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Wave surge during a storm in northern France, in 2019.
Research briefs
Spring storms are becoming more common in Europe

Spring storms forming over the North Atlantic have become more common than they were 80 years ago, and this is due to climate change.

University of Gothenburg
A sunrise casts its light over the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of West Los Angeles, in the aftermath of the 2025 wildfires.
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Knowing better, but still losing more: why disaster risk reduction breaks down

What lesson should we draw from the surviving house in Pacific Palisades during the 2025 California wildfires?

European Geosciences Union
Bulk sub-sea industrial glass fiber optic cable on a metal spool on a ship's stand. The yellow data line is coiled around a black reel in a storage yard. Internet communications spool storage yard.
Research briefs
Hidden lifelines: new research reveals vulnerability of subsea cables serving small island nations

New research led by the National Oceanography Centre has revealed that the greatest risks to subsea telecommunications cables serving small island nations are often concentrated close to island coastlines, where natural hazards and human activity overlap.

National Oceanography Centre
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Japan weather alert names unified for flooding, heavy rain, landslides, storm surges

Operation of a new system of "disaster prevention weather information" reorganizing warnings and advisories for hazards in Japan began May 28.

Mainichi Newspapers Co., Ltd., the - Mainichi Daily news, the
Person stretching arm for an Earth model at COP
Research briefs
Can AI help coastal cities prepare for rising seas and extreme events?

Our novel artificial intelligence model can predict extreme storm surges with high accuracy, including under future climate conditions.

Conversation Media Group, the
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Maximum Information launches PsiClone ahead of North Atlantic hurricane season

Maximum Information today announces the launch of PsiClone, a new live event monitoring platform that helps insurers, reinsurers and underwriting teams monitor portfolio exposure and act earlier during active tropical cyclone events.

Maximum Information
Little African Boy At The Community Borehole Quenching His Thirst
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Stronger signals, rapid action: Transforming early disease detection and surveillance in Malawi

Early detection of public health threats requires continuous capacity strengthening to detect early and monitor outbreaks and to build effective disease surveillance systems.

World Health Organization (WHO)
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Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land

Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AI

Guardian, the (UK)