In the 11/25/2025 edition:
Climate Resilience is at the center of this week’s global updates, highlighting disaster risk, adaptation efforts, infrastructure challenges, and extreme weather impacts.
News: Weak infrastructure leaves Jamaican schools devastated in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa
By Conversation Media Group, the on Nov 24, 2025 01:17 pm
The devastation in Jamaica caused by Hurricane Melissa exposed a harsh reality that’s been hidden in plain sight for decades — most schools were not structurally sound enough to sustain high winds, heavy rainfall and storm-surge flooding.
News: Estimating economic resilience to climate impacts: The Gross Resilience Product (GRP)
By Global Center on Adaptation on Nov 24, 2025 01:16 pm
Climate impacts are reshaping economic realities across Africa. To understand what this means for future growth, the GCA Resilient Economies Index introduces an important new measure: the Gross Resilience Product (GRP).
News: New York City proceeds with flood protection project in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood
By New York Amsterdam News on Nov 21, 2025 02:52 pm
The city is on track to install barriers and elevate roads and sidewalks in the port neighborhood of Red Hook. Experts say it will provide insufficient protection from storms.
News: Building media resilience in Central America: Case studies from Guatemala and Honduras
By United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Nov 21, 2025 02:50 pm
In a region where hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes routinely disrupt lives and infrastructure, the media in Central America are more than informational: they are lifesaving.
News: As seas rise, so do the risks from toxic sites
By Inside Climate News on Nov 21, 2025 02:50 pm
Towering clouds of black smoke darkened the skies for hours that summer day in 2012, forcing 15,000 residents to seek medical care for chest pain, headaches and asthma, among other ailments.
News: Improving snowfall forecasts in the Mountain West
By University of Utah on Nov 21, 2025 02:47 pm
The varied topography of the Western USA results in localized weather. Accordingly, snowfall forecasts for the mountain West often suffer from a lack of precision, with predictions provided as broad ranges of inch depths for a given day or storm cycle.
News: How a billionaire’s plan to export East Texas groundwater sparked a rural uprising
By Grist Magazine on Nov 21, 2025 02:47 pm
As fast-growing cities and suburbs scramble for new water sources, farmers in East Texas are turning to government regulation to keep their wells from running dry.
News: Building the evidence for anticipatory action: what we’ve learned – and what’s next
By Anticipation Hub on Nov 21, 2025 02:46 pm
The expanding experience and evidence for AA now available enable us to reflect on what has been learned, what works, and the evidence gaps that remain amid broader humanitarian reforms.
News: In the Amazon, a school becomes a beacon of climate resilience
By United Nations – Headquarters on Nov 21, 2025 12:59 pm
For three years, the Maria Naura Gouvêa Municipal School has been living out one of COP30’s central themes: adaptation. During our visit, Kamal Kishore, head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), called the school “a guiding light”.
News: Climate change and food prices
By Climate Central on Nov 20, 2025 10:05 pm
Food and climate change are closely linked. Food systems account for about one-quarter of all heat-trapping pollution. Meanwhile, extreme events fueled by climate change can damage crops, reduce yields, and disrupt supply chains.
News: Financing adaptation: 11 financial instruments that help build climate resilience
By World Resources Institute on Nov 20, 2025 02:46 pm
A WRI analysis found that adaptation and resilience investments can unlock broad economic, social and environmental benefits that go far beyond simply avoiding losses, even when an extreme event doesn’t occur.
News: Monsoon storms will bring heavier rains but become weaker
By University of Reading on Nov 20, 2025 02:44 pm
Climate change will make monsoon storms in South Asia wetter and weaker, with more storms pushing further inland across India.
News: How digital systems are transforming water management in Balochistan
By Development Asia on Nov 20, 2025 02:44 pm
BWRIS and AWS are helping farmers and planners use every drop wisely in Pakistan’s most arid and water-scarce province.
DRR Community Voices: Educating for the future: A teacher’s journey to hands-on climate change education
By Julien Calas on Nov 20, 2025 01:15 pm
Julien Calas, a teacher of French, was interviewed by PreventionWeb to find out how his work is educating pupils about climate change and giving them the confidence to take on today’s challenges.
News: Improved flood predictions through satellite data and modelling
By Deltares on Nov 20, 2025 11:31 am
Climate change poses an increasing threat to millions of people living in coastal cities worldwide. Traditional models rely heavily on local measurements, which are often lacking in vulnerable areas, especially in the Global South.
News: Can AI help us predict earthquakes?
By Kyoto University 京都大学 on Nov 20, 2025 11:24 am
Machine learning models have demonstrated an ability to predict stick-slip laboratory earthquakes in small, centimeter-scale experiments, but this approach has not yet been applied to larger, more complex systems.
News: New tool maps the overlap of heat and health in California
By Eos – AGU on Nov 20, 2025 11:18 am
CalHeatScore creates heat wave warnings for every zip code in California, using temperature data, socioeconomic indicators, and the history of emergency room visits, to predict heat-related health risk.
News: Sea-level rise accelerates in New Jersey, raising coastal flooding risk, study says
By Inside Climate News on Nov 20, 2025 11:14 am
Landmark report forecasts water levels and temperature gain but avoids policy prescriptions.
News: Call for EOI: Effectiveness of roadside burning – case studies of planned burn/fire interactions
By Natural Hazards Research Australia on Nov 19, 2025 04:57 pm
This project will build on existing research by producing case studies detailing outcomes of when linear fuel breaks, primarily in the form of roadside burning, interacted with bushfires during the 2024/25 and 2025/26 fire seasons.
News: De-risking agricultural finance to drive gender-inclusive, climate-resilient growth in Agri-SMEs
By African Development Bank on Nov 19, 2025 04:57 pm
The DAFCR team works to mobilize concessional resources, reduce and transfer risk and enable inclusive and climate resilient growth for African Agriculture SMEs.
News: Researchers turn to satellite technology to curb the fall armyworm menace in Kenya
By Star, the – Radio Africa Group – Kenya on Nov 19, 2025 04:56 pm
Mwanzia is among farmers who have benefited from a pest management programme run by Kalro in partnership with the Korean government under the Korea-Africa Food & Agriculture Cooperation Initiative (Kafaci).
News: Bringing the COPE Squad to Life: COPE and The Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) launch interactive learning platform at COP30
By COPE Disaster Champions on Nov 19, 2025 04:55 pm
COPE Disaster Champions, in collaboration with SUSS, is thrilled to announce the official launch of a new interactive learning platform hosted on SUSS UniLEARN.
News: Catalysing sovereign resilience with insurance linked loans
By Swiss Reinsurance Company (Swiss Re) on Nov 19, 2025 12:22 pm
At Swiss Re Public Sector Solutions, we believe the timing is right to invest more boldly in the concept of Insurance Linked Loans (ILL), a risk-transfer innovation that can benefit all parties aiming to strengthen sovereign disaster resilience.
News: A new way for coastal planners to explore the costs of rising seas
By Eos – AGU on Nov 19, 2025 12:09 pm
A framework featuring a range of plausible future sea level rise scenarios could help coastal planners prepare critical infrastructure for the worst-case scenario.
News: Weather behind past heat waves could return far deadlier
By Stanford University on Nov 19, 2025 12:08 pm
Weather patterns that produced 5 severe heat waves in Europe over the past 30 years could kill thousands more people if repeated in today’s hotter global climate, a new study finds.
News: The future fate of water in the Andes
By The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) on Nov 19, 2025 12:05 pm
In light of the ongoing fifteen-year megadrought in Chile, a team of researchers addressed a bold future scenario. Their findings: by the end of the century, the considerably worn-out glaciers will not be able to buffer a similar megadrought.
News: New weather model captures every angle of mountain winds for sharper forecasts
By Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences on Nov 19, 2025 11:53 am
This research provides new technical support for predicting severe weather, managing water resources, and understanding regional climate change in some of the world’s most complex and sensitive environments.
News: UC Irvine researchers link Antarctic ice loss to ‘storms’ at the ocean’s subsurface
By University of California, Irvine on Nov 19, 2025 11:47 am
Researchers have identified stormlike circulation patterns beneath Antarctic ice shelves that are causing aggressive melting, with major implications for global sea level rise projections.
News: Researchers at KU launch new Kansas Flood Mapping Dashboard
By University of Kansas (KU) on Nov 19, 2025 11:42 am
“The dashboard grew out of our flood modeling research,” Kastens said. “We started building it after the 2019 floods, and it’s been evolving ever since. It’s now a web-based system that automatically maps flood extent and depth in near real time
News: Why rigorous details in models matter: Modeling the impact of mangroves on hurricane risk
By Moody’s Investors Service on Nov 19, 2025 11:33 am
To understand whether mangroves protect better against weaker or stronger storms, Moody’s ran a selection of storms from our stochastic event set through our counter-factual ‘no-mangroves’ scenario.
News: WIN DRR Leadership Awards 2025: Meet this year’s Excellence Award finalists
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for Asia and Pacific on Nov 19, 2025 09:44 am
Seven women from Asia and the Pacific, who have achieved exceptional professional success in disaster risk reduction, have been chosen as finalists for the 2025 Women’s International Network for Disaster Risk Reduction (WIN DRR) Excellence Award.
News: From newsrooms to communities: African SIDS journalists lead the way in risk communication
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Nov 18, 2025 06:17 pm
UNESCO, the African Union of Broadcasting (AUB), and UNDRR joined forces to support media organizations in four African SIDS – Cabo Verde, Comoros, Mauritius, and São Tomé and Príncipe.
News: Rio Policy Radar: New tool launched to support action on climate, nature and land
By Climate Policy Radar on Nov 18, 2025 05:40 pm
Climate Policy Radar has announced the launch of Rio Policy Radar, a new shared platform bringing together country submissions to the three Rio Conventions: the UNFCCC, CBD and UNCCD.
News: WeatherNext 2: Google’s most advanced weather forecasting model
By Google on Nov 18, 2025 05:40 pm
The new AI model delivers more efficient, more accurate and higher-resolution global weather predictions.
News: Iceland launches its first climate atlas with information for local communities
By Climate-ADAPT on Nov 18, 2025 05:40 pm
The Climate Atlas of Iceland, developed by the Icelandic Met Office and launched in April 2025, marks a milestone in making climate information more accessible and policy-relevant for Iceland.
News: The five pillars of climate resilience
By Brookings Institution, the on Nov 18, 2025 05:39 pm
For the world’s poorest people, climate change does not announce itself in parts per million. It arrives as a ruined harvest, a flooded shopfront, or lost learning as children are kept out of school.
News: Loss and damage tracking and capacity building in the Republic of Yemen
By Santiago Network on Nov 18, 2025 05:13 pm
The Santiago Network Secretariat is pleased to announce this call for proposals to catalyze technical assistance from organizations, bodies, networks and experts (OBNEs) in response to a request from the Republic of Yemen.
News: Building systemic resilience for the climate, energy and food
By United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) on Nov 18, 2025 05:13 pm
Resilience must now be understood as a system-level imperative. Food, energy and disaster risk are deeply interlinked in the face of climate change. A single shock in one sector often ripples across others.
News: The three big reasons why Mozambique is not adapting to climate change and what needs to be done
By Conversation Media Group, the on Nov 18, 2025 05:08 pm
Mozambique has been identified by climate scientists as one of Africa’s climate risk hotspots. Mozambique is lagging behind in adapting to global warming in three ways.
News: Opportunities for accessing loss and damage financing through enhanced understanding of economic and non-economic loss and damage in the Cook Islands
By Santiago Network on Nov 18, 2025 05:08 pm
The Santiago Network Secretariat is pleased to announce this call for proposals to catalyze technical assistance from organizations, bodies, networks and experts (OBNEs) in response to a request from the Cook Islands.
News: Worries about climate change are waning in many well-off nations – but growing in Turkey, Brazil and India
By Conversation Media Group, the on Nov 18, 2025 05:05 pm
Polling on public attitudes to climate change shows a dip in the numbers who worry about it in many high-income countries. This declining public concern will be a worry to those governments looking to push forward with new environmental measures.
News: Climate-hit South Asian countries need a health system overhaul
By Context on Nov 18, 2025 05:01 pm
People in the Global South are disproportionately affected by fossil fuel pollution. Climate finance needs to help them adapt to the challenges.
News: Strengthening climate resilience WASH systems in Cox’s Bazar and Bashan Char
By Development Asia on Nov 18, 2025 04:57 pm
WASH investments through piped water, improved drainage, and waste management can help curb water-related disease risks and boost climate resilience for refugees and host communities.
DRR Community Voices: How science helped build Brazil’s new National Civil Protection and Defence Plan
By Cilene Victor, Eliane Lima e Silva, Carlos Machado de Freitas, Adriana Leiras, Luiza Ribeiro Alves, Cunha Francisco Dourado on Nov 18, 2025 04:46 pm
Effective disaster risk governance requires long-term planning grounded in science. It was in this context that the Brazilian National Civil Protection and Defence Plan was developed, a milestone for aligning national policy with global frameworks.