In the 10/21/2025 edition:
This edition highlights the most important climate change news 2025, featuring new research, resilience projects, and global adaptation efforts.
News: Climate adaptation in Argentina: Short-term instability, long-term risk
By VoxDev/ CEPR on Oct 20, 2025 06:41 pm
Argentina’s volatile macroeconomic and political environment makes it difficult to commit to the long-term investments needed for climate adaptation, despite the country’s high vulnerability to extreme climate events.
News: 3 ways nature-based solutions are tackling climate displacement in the Global South
By World Economic Forum on Oct 20, 2025 03:49 pm
By 2050, climate change is projected to displace around 143 million people across Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America. To address this growing crisis, nature-based solutions offer a cost-effective and scaleable way forward.
News: Call for papers: The U.S. climate collection: Informing assessment of risks and solutions
By American Geophysical Union on Oct 20, 2025 03:49 pm
The joint AGU-AMS collection seeks papers that synthesize critical elements of recent and emerging knowledge to support future national and sub-national assessments of climate risks and solutions within the United States.
News: Wildfires across the Americas have been supercharged by climate change
By University of Leicester on Oct 20, 2025 03:46 pm
Wildfires across South America and Southern California were up to 30 times larger due to human-driven climate change, according to a major new international report.
News: When the Earth moves: 25 years of probabilistic Fault Displacement hazards
By American Geophysical Union on Oct 20, 2025 03:45 pm
Surface ruptures causing earthquakes pose risks to infrastructure and human lives, but advances in models and data in the last few decades have improved our ability to mitigate their effects.
News: Study finds humans outweigh climate in depleting Arizona’s water supply
By University of Arizona Press on Oct 20, 2025 03:43 pm
A study led by University of Arizona researchers shows that decades of groundwater pumping by humans has depleted Tucson-area aquifers far more than natural climate variation.
News: Scientists must join forces to solve forecasting’s predictability desert
By Eos – AGU on Oct 20, 2025 03:43 pm
To strengthen societal resilience to worsening natural hazards, siloed Earth system science communities must collaborate to understand conditions that favor skillful subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasts.
News: Scaling Early Warnings for All, by all: Advisory Panel calls for accelerated action
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Oct 20, 2025 09:25 am
The Advisory Panel of the Early Warnings for All (EW4All) initiative has issued a Joint Statement calling for accelerated, coordinated action to ensure that everyone on Earth is protected by lifesaving multi-hazard early warning systems.
DRR Community Voices: Why early warnings don’t always lead to early action: The missing link of public engagement
By Shivangi Chavdaa on Oct 20, 2025 08:27 am
Too often, early warning systems are built as technical tools, not community systems. They are driven by data, forecasts, and algorithms – but they fail to ask: will people understand and act on this?
News: New Global Multidimensional Poverty Index Report reveals nearly 80% of the world’s poor live in regions exposed to climate hazards
By United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Oct 17, 2025 08:42 pm
Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air pollution, according to a new report released today.
News: Research shows how Dust Bowl-type drought causes unprecedented productivity loss
By The University of New Mexico on Oct 17, 2025 08:40 pm
A global research effort shows that extreme, prolonged drought conditions in grasslands and shrublands would greatly limit the long-term health of crucial ecosystems that cover nearly half the planet.
News: When the floodwaters rise: Putting women at the center of Climate Adaptation in Cameroon
By Global Center on Adaptation on Oct 17, 2025 08:39 pm
By integrating gender considerations into climate adaptation investments, from safer pedestrian routes to improved land rights and better protection services, the project aims to build cities where resilience and equality go hand in hand.
News: Climate whiplash effects due to rapidly intensifying El Niño cycles
By University of Hawai’i at Manoa on Oct 17, 2025 08:39 pm
A new study published in the journal Nature Communications reveals that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a key driver of global climate variability, is projected to undergo a dramatic transformation due to greenhouse warming.
News: Early investments in climate resilience could save India billions in disaster management
By Mongabay on Oct 17, 2025 08:39 pm
Early investments in resilience and social programmes could cover the costs of damage for a fraction of what they cost today, a study says.
News: Calls for residents in the upcoming Dauntless Residency Programme
By Dauntless Group on Oct 17, 2025 04:25 pm
Over six months, each Resident will lead three sessions that bring together people working at the intersections of STEM, disaster and climate management, and the arts.
News: Call for host institution: LAC regional heat action hub
By Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) on Oct 17, 2025 03:45 pm
GGIN aims to establish additional hubs, and in partnership with PAHO, is calling for expressions of interest from host institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean to accelerate heat action in that region.
News: Drought, sand storms and evacuations: how Iran’s climate crisis gets ignored
By Conversation Media Group, the on Oct 17, 2025 03:37 pm
Tehran – home to more than 10 million people – is facing one of its worst water shortages in decades. Dams near the capital are at their lowest levels for nearly 70 years – the Karaj dam, which has 25 million cubic metres of water storage, is 86% empty.
News: FEMA buyouts vs. risky real estate: New maps reveal post-flood migration patterns across the US
By Conversation Media Group, the on Oct 17, 2025 03:29 pm
Dangerous flooding has damaged neighborhoods in almost every US state in 2025, leaving homes a muddy mess. In several hard-hit areas, it wasn’t the first time homeowners found themselves tearing out wet wallboard and piling waterlogged carpet by the cur
News: We, Filipinos, are wounded healers
By Manila Times Publishing Corp., the on Oct 17, 2025 02:35 pm
The past months have unfurled a tapestry of tribulation across our archipelago: tectonic convulsions that fractured the earth beneath our feet, tempests that lashed our shores with unrelenting fury, and deluges that submerged entire communities in sorrow.
News: Tsunami United: How can youth invest in Tsunami Preparedness for a safer future?
By United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Oct 17, 2025 02:25 pm
Launched Tsunami United in 2024, a youth-led initiative connecting students across the Indian Ocean region to learn, connect, and collaborate for a safer future.
News: Early Warnings for All – What does success look like?
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Oct 17, 2025 02:25 pm
Three years into implementation, the Early Warnings for All initiative has brought the world closer to a reality in which everyone on Earth is protected from hazardous events through life-saving early warning systems.
News: Two years after Libya’s disastrous floods, dam neglect remains a global risk
By International Water Management Institute (IWMI) on Oct 17, 2025 02:21 pm
As Libya contends with the impacts of the catastrophe, lessons and opportunities for action unfold for aging dams and water management elsewhere, particularly in conflict-ridden areas.
News: Multi-hazard early warning systems for anticipatory action: how to make these a reality
By Anticipation Hub on Oct 17, 2025 02:20 pm
This blog highlights some of the realities of implementing people-centred, multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWSs) to support anticipatory action, drawing lessons from Practical Action’s work in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.
News: Coral skeletons left by a medieval tsunami whisper warning for Caribbean region
By University of Washington on Oct 17, 2025 02:16 pm
Sometime between 1381 and 1391, an earthquake exceeding magnitude 8.0 rocked the northeastern Caribbean and sent a tsunami barreling toward the island of Anegada, depositing coral boulders hundreds of meters inland.
News: Ten years of the Paris Agreement: The present and future of extreme heat
By World Weather Attribution on Oct 17, 2025 02:15 pm
In 2015, after years of failed negotiations, the world celebrated a landmark achievement: the signing of the Paris Agreement.
DRR Community Voices: From knowing to doing: closing the climate adaptation gap
By Md. Mahbub Ul Hassan Sharan on Oct 17, 2025 11:04 am
A recent study shows 89% of people are aware of climate change, yet over 80% still take no action. Why does awareness fail to become resilience?
News: From response to resilience: Timor-Leste takes a step toward safer futures
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for Asia and Pacific on Oct 17, 2025 10:24 am
In September, 40 government officials came together in Dili. For three days, the Civil Protection Authority, with support from UNDRR and funding from Portugal, rolled up their sleeves to begin shaping Timor-Leste’s first national DRR strategy.
News: UN Disaster boss Kamal Kishore on risk reduction, leadership and our interconnected world
By Disrupting Disasters on Oct 16, 2025 11:32 pm
Join Elizabeth as she speaks with Kamal Kishore, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), based in Geneva.
News: Domestic Preparedness Podcast: Harnessing AI & GIS: Transforming emergency preparedness with emerging technologies
By Domestic Preparedness on Oct 16, 2025 11:27 pm
In this episode, Host Teresa Farfan talks with Esri’s Ryan Lanclos about how GIS and AI help officials see risks in real time, make informed decisions, and better support communities before and after disasters.
News: How wildfires and other climate disasters put health systems under extreme pressure
By Conversation Media Group, the on Oct 16, 2025 11:13 pm
Wildfires are no longer rare disasters in Canada. At a time when hospitals are already strained by staff shortages, long wait times and rising costs, wildfires add yet another layer of pressure.
News: Typhoon leaves flooded Alaska villages facing a storm recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever experience
By Conversation Media Group, the on Oct 16, 2025 10:59 pm
Halong was an ex-typhoon, similar to Merbok in 2022, by the time it reached the delta. A week earlier, it had been a powerful typhoon east of Japan. But as the storm approached Alaska, everything went sideways.
News: Studying tsunamis with GPS satellites
By Particle (Scitech) on Oct 16, 2025 10:53 pm
On 30 July, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula triggered a tsunami that spread across the Pacific Ocean. It turns out that GPS error correction -the thing that helps your car know where to go- can help detect tsunamis.
News: Unveiling the impact of compound drought and wildfire events on PM2.5 air pollution in the era of climate change
By Pohang University of Science and Technology on Oct 16, 2025 10:46 pm
POSTECH analyzed the contribution of wildfires to changes in fine particulate matter PM2.5 concentrations during drought periods.
News: Rising seas and sinking cities signal a coastal crisis in China
By Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Oct 16, 2025 10:35 pm
A team of scientists led by Rutgers researchers has uncovered evidence that modern sea level rise is happening faster than at any time in the past 4,000 years, with China’s coastal cities especially at risk.
News: Hotter does mean wetter: As climate change intensifies, so will precipitation — much of the time
By Kyoto University 京都大学 on Oct 16, 2025 10:26 pm
Scientific findings reveal that a 4 degree global temperature increase will not only intensify extreme precipitation, but that it will indeed become stronger at a rate of 7% per degree of warming in Japan.
News: Mieux anticiper les brumes de sable pour limiter l’exposition à la pollution atmosphérique
By Agence National de Sécurité Sanitaire (ANSES) on Oct 16, 2025 04:46 pm
Fréquents aux Antilles et en Guyane, les brumes de sable sont des phénomènes naturels qui peuvent aussi survenir en France hexagonale, du fait des tempêtes de sable sahariennes. Ces phénomènes augmentent les concentrations en particules dans l’air
News: The climate crisis is fuelling extreme fires across the planet
By Conversation Media Group, the on Oct 16, 2025 04:31 pm
Human-caused climate change increased the area burned by wildfires, called bushfires in Australia, by a magnitude of 30 in some regions in the world.
News: Why India’s monsoon is becoming more extreme – even though overall rainfall has hardly increased
By Conversation Media Group, the on Oct 16, 2025 04:26 pm
Climate change is not simply making India’s monsoon wetter. It’s making it wilder – with longer dry spells and more extreme downpours.
News: Each fossil fuel project linked to additional global warming
By University of Melbourne on Oct 16, 2025 04:24 pm
Individual fossil fuel projects can no longer be considered too small to matter according to new Australian research linking each new investment in coal and gas extraction with measurable increases in global temperatures.
News: Guiding disaster risk reduction investments through AI powered tools
By United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) on Oct 15, 2025 04:49 pm
Building on advances in big Earth data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, a new tool – SatGPT – offers an innovative solution that supports flood risk mapping.
News: Inclusive disaster management is key to ensuring safe internal climate migration in Pakistan
By International Water Management Institute (IWMI) on Oct 15, 2025 04:47 pm
Recurring floods are driving migration, water shortages, poverty risks and putting pressure on urban areas. Without adequate planning, climate-driven internal migration can expose vulnerable populations to serious socio-economic and security risks.
News: New study values the benefits of mangroves for reducing property damages in recent hurricanes
By University of California, Santa Cruz on Oct 15, 2025 04:45 pm
Researchers used industry models to price the benefit of mangroves during Hurricanes Irma and Ian at $725 million and $4.1 billion, respectively.
News: Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk
By Guardian, the (UK) on Oct 15, 2025 04:18 pm
Millions more homes in England, Scotland and Wales face devastating floods, and some towns may have to be abandoned as climate breakdown makes many areas uninsurable, a Guardian investigation has found.
News: Weak lightning in developing thunderstorms can trigger deadly wildfire
By PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd on Oct 15, 2025 04:15 pm
This study not only deepens our understanding of the causes of such fires, but also provides new ideas for the prevention and control of lightning wildfires in mountainous areas globally.
News: Kenya’s commitment to advancing Early Warning for All in Africa
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Oct 15, 2025 04:11 pm
The Early Warnings for All initiative is not merely a policy agenda it is a lifeline for millions of Africans. Kenya stands firmly in support of this initiative, recognizing that resilience is built on information, preparedness, and cooperation.
DRR Community Voices: Funding resilience: India’s pathway lies in data and technology
By Sanjay Srivastava on Oct 15, 2025 03:47 pm
As the world confronts accelerating climate volatility, India’s example demonstrates that resilience is no longer the domain of emergency managers alone – it is a collective technological enterprise.
News: Fact-checking a Trump administration claim about climate change and crops
By Yale Climate Connections on Oct 15, 2025 02:29 pm
Climate experts have found that rising CO2 levels, by causing climate change, are harmful to agriculture overall – and likely to cause food prices to increase.
News: The biggest storms on Earth are their workplace
By Yale Climate Connections on Oct 15, 2025 02:20 pm
NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters risk rough skies so the public can better prepare for disasters.
News: Six inspiring ways South Africa is reducing disaster risk
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Oct 15, 2025 08:38 am
South Africa provides both leadership and practical examples of resilience in action. Across the country, scientists, citizens and communities continue to find inventive ways to manage heat, fire, floods and water systems.
News: Stop Disasters Game expands to 11 languages and new learning spaces
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Oct 15, 2025 08:31 am
The Stop Disasters Game continues to grow as a global learning tool for resilience. Now available in 11 languages, the free game is helping players around the world experience what it takes to build resilient communities and reduce disaster risk.
News: New STEER framework to help governments upgrade National Risk Registers for a world of systemic risks
By Accelerating systemic risk assessment (ASRA) on Oct 14, 2025 03:56 pm
Policy teams in central government departments and specialized agencies now have access to STEER, a guided framework about systemic risks, spot gaps in current approaches, compare options, and design context-specific responses.
News: The importance of mental health to respond to and recover from disasters
By Connecting Business initiative on Oct 14, 2025 03:49 pm
In the wake of disasters, the emotional and psychological toll on affected communities can be profound, and the situation demands a holistic approach that encompasses both physical and psychological care.
News: To prevent rapid sea-level rise, reduce emissions now
By Cornell University on Oct 14, 2025 03:48 pm
The timing of emissions reductions, even more so than the rate of reduction, will be key to avoiding catastrophic thresholds for ice-melt and sea-level rise, according to a new Cornell study.
News: “In the future, dams will serve a variety of purposes”
By Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on Oct 14, 2025 03:48 pm
An EPFL engineer has illustrated some of the complex ways in which climate change will affect hydropower facilities, taking the Gries dam in Valais Canton as a case study.
News: UK heatwaves overwhelm natural ecological safeguards to increase wildfire risk
By University of Birmingham on Oct 14, 2025 03:44 pm
Extreme conditions including 40C heat seen in 2022 led to all fuel sources in heathlands to dry leading to significant increase in threat of wildfire incidents.
News: By reducing disaster risk, safeguarding nature proves a smart financial investment
By United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Oct 14, 2025 03:24 pm
The degradation of ecosystems, is driving disaster risk, making communities more vulnerable. Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) offers a powerful solution by restoring and protecting these natural systems.
News: Why gender matters in disaster risk reduction
By United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN WOMEN) on Oct 14, 2025 03:15 pm
Learn why and how UN Women is putting this into practice in three countries from the Europe and Central Asia region – Georgia, Tajikistan, and Türkiye – with one important principle in mind: women and girls must always be at the center of these efforts
News: G20 Declaration supports Early Warnings for All
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Oct 14, 2025 03:02 pm
WMO has welcomed a declaration by the Group of 20 (G20) ministers which gives strong recognition to the need for multi-hazard early warnings and the essential role of National Meteorological Hydrological Services as the authoritative warning provider.
News: The disasters we talk about shape our priorities and determine our preparedness
By Conversation Media Group, the on Oct 14, 2025 02:55 pm
One of the main culprits for overlooking certain disasters is the way we talk about them. We tend to focus more on the narratives surrounding rapid-onset events — wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes — versus long-term crises like climate change.
News: How Indigenous knowledge is aiding Pakistan’s fight against climate change
By Al Jazeera Satellite Network on Oct 14, 2025 02:48 pm
Despite spending millions on EWS and its implementation, there has been widespread lack of trust placed in it by a number of communities, due to frequent reports of malfunctioning of equipment and lack of follow-ups by the concerned agencies.