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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.

Indian farmer transporting harvest goods on a bike in a flooded street
Update

Examining Assam’s disaster readiness after the 2022 floods

India’s Barak Valley in the northeast was devastated by back-to-back floods in 2022. Two years on, is it better prepared for future disasters?
Dialogue Earth
Arctic sea with ice
Research briefs

Heavy water: how melting ice sheets and pumped groundwater can lower local sea levels – and boost them elsewhere

New research uses gravity-sensing satellites to track how changes in water storage on land can cause unexpected fluctuations in sea levels.
Conversation Media Group, the
Hurricane Florence seen from Space in September 2018
Update

Hurricane forecast points to a dangerous 2024 Atlantic season, with La Niña and a persistently warm ocean teaming up to power fierce storms

If the National Hurricane Center’s early forecast is right, the North Atlantic could see 17 to 25 named storms, 8 to 13 hurricanes, and 4 to 7 major hurricanes by the end of November. That’s the most named storms in any NOAA preseason forecast.
Conversation Media Group, the
Global concept of climate change
Update

Measuring adaptation: Increasingly necessary but not always easy

Climate adaptation encompasses many approaches. In some cases, adaptation takes the form of physical structures that can be seen and touched, such as constructing flood control infrastructure like dams and weirs
Climatelinks
A woman is seen while she tills the soil in a garden in Kaya, Centre-Nord region in Burkina Faso
Update

Integrated financial and technical services for agriculture in Burkina Faso

The ISF has signed a grant agreement to support the implementation of a parametric insurance to strengthen the resilience of smallholder farmers against climate change in Burkina Faso.
InsuResilience Solutions Fund
Workers drain a flooded thoroughfare after a night of severe thunderstorms in Kisumu, Kenya
Research briefs

Urban planning at the heart of increasingly severe East African flood impacts in a warming world

Researchers from various countries collaborated to assess to what extent human-induced climate change altered the likelihood and intensity of the rainfall that led to the severe flooding in the most affected region.
World Weather Attribution
Women and men selling goods in a market in Burundi
Update

As El Niño intensifies floods and droughts, early action pays off

Through anticipatory action, the World Food Programme and its partners are cushioning the fallout of extreme weather in countries grappling with hunger.
World Food Programme
A farmer overlooking his dried up field.
Update

U.S. drought-monitoring system outpaced by climate changes

A study finds more frequent droughts challenge the accuracy of classifications tied to aid.
Dartmouth College
Heatwave, Bangladesh, 2023
Research briefs

Extreme temperatures may increase risk of stroke mortality, especially in low-income countries

Extreme heat and extreme cold are both associated with increased risks of death from ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Harvard University
Iraq drought and desert
Update

Warming climate intensifies flash droughts worldwide

Sudden onset of drying is a rising problem, particularly acute in South America and Southern Africa. But in high mountain regions of Central Asia, climate change has instead brought more moisture.
American Geophysical Union
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