In the 08/26/2025 edition:
News: Call for applications: 2026 Geneva Association Ernst Meyer Prize
By International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics (Geneva Association) on Aug 25, 2025 03:11 pm
Applications are now open for the 2026 Geneva Association Ernst Meyer Prize, our annual award for an outstanding PhD thesis in the field of risk and insurance economics!
News: Digging into Ireland’s ice age legacy could improve sea level predictions
By Northwestern University on Aug 25, 2025 03:02 pm
To find clues in former ice sheets that help scientists connect the dots from past abrupt climate change to the present, glacial geologists are examining rock samples from Southeast Ireland through fieldwork and cosmogenic exposure dating.
News: Aerial imagery supports pioneering research at Jasper Ridge
By Stanford University on Aug 25, 2025 02:58 pm
A PhD student recently studied how to improve GPS accuracy using 3D environmental models. He’s now applying that expertise to wildfire management – before, during, and after prescribed burns.
News: Buckling rails and lines underwater: how Australia’s ageing train networks are crumbling as the climate changes
By Conversation Media Group, the on Aug 25, 2025 02:56 pm
From city transit to cross-country freight, Australia’s rail system is straining as the infrastructure ages and climate extremes grow more intense and frequent. Much of Australia’s rail backbone was built decades ago.
News: Are NZ building code requirements for seismic resilience of existing buildings fit-for-purpose?
By Risk Frontiers Holdings Pty Ltd on Aug 25, 2025 02:55 pm
In the aftermath of the Canterbury and Kaikōura earthquakes, the owners of earthquake-prone buildings around New Zealand were ordered to strengthen or demolish them, a task which would cost billions of dollars.
DRR Community Voices: Rebuilding blind: The global failure to count homes destroyed
By Olivia Nielsen, Emma Harwood on Aug 25, 2025 10:36 am
Each year, we count the millions of people displaced by disasters and calculate the cost of the destruction. But there’s one number you won’t find in the global databases: how many homes were actually destroyed.
News: Reports from 65 years of snow and avalanche research
By WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF on Aug 22, 2025 05:19 pm
The collection ranges from early measurements of the snowpack to detailed reports on major avalanche events and offers an insight into both the history of snow science and the development of safety measures in alpine regions.
News: New AI tool tracks early signs of hurricane formation
By University of Miami on Aug 22, 2025 02:43 pm
An artificial intelligence system is giving forecasters the first automated way to distinguish between key tropical weather patterns in the Atlantic and Pacific — an advance now in use at the National Hurricane Center
News: WHO, WMO issue new report and guidance to protect workers from increasing heat stress
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Aug 22, 2025 02:03 pm
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have published a new joint report and guidance highlighting the growing global health challenges posed by extreme heat on workers.
News: Wildfire exposure is increasing despite less land burning globally – here’s why
By Conversation Media Group, the on Aug 22, 2025 12:12 pm
With intense, destructive fires often in the news, it can seem like more land is burning. Globally, however, our team of fire researchers also found that the total area burned actually declined by 26% over those two decades.
News: Climate change and food safety: How the EU is responding to the growing threat
By Open Access Government on Aug 22, 2025 12:11 pm
Claire Bury, the Deputy Director-General of DG Health and Food Safety (SANTE) at the European Commission, highlights how the EU is actively addressing the challenges of climate change to ensure that Europe’s food systems remain prepared and safe.
News: Climate change is profoundly affecting livelihoods across Canada
By Conversation Media Group, the on Aug 22, 2025 12:10 pm
A research project I led with colleagues, Work-Life in Canada, reinforces this truth, revealing how climate change shapes not just what we do for work and under what conditions, but who we are and how we understand ourselves.
News: Climate-Smart Public Health (CSPH): A blueprint for resilient health systems
By Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on Aug 21, 2025 02:46 pm
Until now, systems that collect public health information haven’t been connected to data about the climate and environment, making it difficult to anticipate how climate change impacts people’s health.
News: Europe’s soaring heat and the great air conditioning dilemma
By World Resources Institute on Aug 21, 2025 02:40 pm
Deadly summer heat waves have become the new norm in recent years for Europe, the world’s fastest-warming continent. With air conditioning in only 20% of the Europe’s buildings, city leaders face a pressing dilemma.
News: Industry managed forests more likely to fuel megafires
By University of Utah on Aug 21, 2025 02:32 pm
The odds of high-severity wildfire were nearly one-and-a-half times higher on industrial private land than on publicly owned forests, a new study found. Forests managed by timber companies were more likely to exhibit the conditions that megafires love.
News: From Zimbabwe to Japan: How sesame seeds are helping farmers grow a profit
By World Food Programme (WFP) on Aug 21, 2025 02:29 pm
Bumper harvests of the drought-resistant crop ring in food security – and export income – for smallholders with support from the Government of Japan and the World Food Programme
News: A burning issue in South America: how to ensure an economic future for people affected by extreme weather events
By Equal Times on Aug 21, 2025 10:55 am
In 2024, Bolivia burned with a thousand fires. Many Indigenous communities saw all or part of their territory consumed by the flames.
News: In Africa, heat waves are hotter and longer than 40 years ago, UIC researchers say
By University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) on Aug 20, 2025 04:02 pm
Heat waves — prolonged periods of abnormally hot weather — influence egg prices, energy bills and even public transit. And they’re becoming more common as temperatures increase.
News: Moving towns: 4 stories of communities facing relocation show the complex realities of managed retreat
By Conversation Media Group, the on Aug 20, 2025 04:01 pm
These stories from four communities in three countries show how connection to culture and place can be either challenged or sustained when relocation becomes necessary.
News: Entire church begins two-day journey across Swedish city
By British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on Aug 20, 2025 04:00 pm
A landmark 113-year-old church at risk from ground subsidence is being relocated in its entirety – in a 5km (3 miles) move along a road in Sweden’s far north.
News: Exascale simulations underpin quake-resistant infrastructure designs
By Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Aug 20, 2025 03:59 pm
Simulations still can’t predict exactly when an earthquake will happen, but with the incredible processing power of modern exascale supercomputers, they can now predict how they will happen and how much damage they will likely cause.
News: AI-generated misinformation can create confusion and hinder responses during emergencies
By Conversation Media Group, the on Aug 20, 2025 03:51 pm
The British Columbia Wildfire Service has issued a warning to residents about viral, AI-generated fake wildfire images circulating online. During emergencies, such digital disinformation can cause significant harm by spreading confusion and panic.
News: Why the Arthur’s Seat burn is a cautionary tale for the UK’s wildfire management strategy
By Conversation Media Group, the on Aug 20, 2025 03:46 pm
For the tenth time this year, a wildfire warning covers most of Scotland. The latest alert came after a recent, and not the first, gorse fire on Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh’s iconic ancient volcano that draws millions of visitors every year.
News: Global South faces “disproportionately high” urban flood risk, study warns
By Chinese Academy of Sciences on Aug 20, 2025 03:35 pm
A new study has revealed a stark and growing inequality in urban flood exposure across the globe, with developing nations facing risks that are multiples higher than their wealthier counterparts.
News: How to future-proof China’s grid?
By Dialogue Earth on Aug 20, 2025 02:26 pm
China’s electricity supplies are generally stable today, but extreme weather and renewables integration are growing challenges
News: Leveraging collaboration to enhance waste management for greater flood resilience
By Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance on Aug 20, 2025 02:20 pm
An innovative collaboration led to the development of Green Islands, local waste management stations, that help to protect the community from flooding by reducing blockages in drainage canals and minimizing contamination & related health conditions
News: Call for papers: Extreme processes and their impact on hazards and risks
By Wiley-Blackwell on Aug 20, 2025 01:46 pm
Contributions from leading experts in these fields to develop new mathematical and statistical frameworks that can address the growing complexity of high dimensional datasets and provide more accurate and actionable predictions for extreme events.
News: Extreme weather alerts can move markets – here’s what investors can learn from our new research
By Conversation Media Group, the on Aug 20, 2025 01:34 pm
It seems severe weather alerts can indeed move stock prices. This was unexpected, as alerts are simply warnings, not actual disasters. Yet they are enough to shift market values.
News: Volcano alert: Scientists discover a signal that could transform early warning systems
By Earth.com on Aug 19, 2025 05:31 pm
People who live near active volcanoes need alerts they can trust. False alarms wear down that trust, while missed warnings put lives at risk. Scientists are testing a signal within earthquake waves called shear-wave splitting that may help.
News: South Africa banks curb lending over climate-related default risks, study finds
By Thomson Reuters on Aug 19, 2025 05:23 pm
South African banks have become more reluctant to lend as the threat of extreme weather events has heightened the risk of defaults, a study by the South African Reserve Bank showed on Monday.
News: We can build safer tunnels with artificial intelligence
By Norwegian Geotechnical Institute on Aug 19, 2025 05:20 pm
Artificial intelligence is changing how we build tunnels. We can now predict hazardous rock conditions before we encounter them, leading to safer tunnels, lower costs, reduced environmental impact, and better decision-making underground.
News: Intense two-week heatwave in Fennoscandia hotter and more likely due to climate change
By World Weather Attribution on Aug 19, 2025 02:53 pm
After a relatively cool June, the Fennoscanian countries Norway, Sweden and Finland were hit by an intense heatwave that lasted for about two weeks from mid-July, with maximum temperatures repeatedly exceeding 30°C.
News: A perfect firestorm: The social, political, and climate forces that keep Athens burning
By Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Aug 19, 2025 01:57 pm
Although the number of wildfires recorded annually in Greece has decreased since 2000, wildfires are getting larger, burning nearly 1,500 acres more on average with each passing year.
News: US-French SWOT satellite measures tsunami after massive quake
By National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Aug 19, 2025 01:56 pm
Data provided by the water satellite, a joint effort between NASA and the French space agency, is helping to improve tsunami forecast models, benefitting coastal communities.
News: After a drought last year, Ohio farmers wished for rain – now downpours are destroying their crops
By Inside Climate News on Aug 19, 2025 01:54 pm
The variation in weather—extreme drought one year, flash flooding the next—has made it nearly impossible for small farmers to plan their growing seasons.
News: New technology boosts bushfire risk mapping
By Natural Hazards Research Australia on Aug 19, 2025 01:53 pm
As climate change drives bushfire seasons, the pressure is on to better predict and manage fire across Australia’s landscapes. At the heart of this challenge is a simple but critical question: how much fuel is on the ground and how likely is it to burn?
News: New European satellite launch lifts weather forecasting to new heights
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Aug 19, 2025 01:53 pm
A new European weather satellite has successfully launched, in a boost for global monitoring of weather, climate and atmospheric composition and for the delivery of more precise forecasts and earlier warnings to help protect lives and property.
News: Drought can make farmers feel worried and hopeless: Ghana study finds social networks help
By Conversation Media Group, the on Aug 19, 2025 01:52 pm
A study was conducted in the Talensi district of Ghana’s Upper East region to assess the impact of drought on the mental wellbeing of peri-urban farmers in semi-arid Ghana.
News: Can Pakistan turn recurring monsoon chaos into long-term water security?
By International Water Management Institute (IWMI) on Aug 19, 2025 08:31 am
As Pakistan braces for another intense monsoon, the crisis presents both a stark warning and a rare opportunity — underscoring the urgent need for smarter water governance, local action and nature-based solutions to build lasting resilience.