Global Disaster Risk Reduction News July 14 2026: Latest Climate, Heatwave, Earthquake & Resilience Updates

Global Disaster Risk Reduction News July 14 2026 brings together the latest international news, research findings, and resilience updates on climate change, disaster preparedness, extreme weather, earthquakes, coastal hazards, and risk reduction from around the world.

News: Model maps solar storms across 1 million miles around Earth

By Johns Hopkins University on Jul 13, 2026 09:34 pm
A team at the Applied Physics Lab is working to understand the complex science behind predicting invisible threats that can quickly cripple electric grid infrastructure on Earth.

News: Report outlines potential to predict coastal cliff collapses

By University of California, San Diego on Jul 13, 2026 08:55 pm
Scripps Oceanography-led research effort detected signs of cliff failure hours to days before collapse.

News: Workers are risking dangerous heat to keep the World Cup running

By Grist Magazine on Jul 13, 2026 08:53 pm
A patchwork of government protections and company policies have left them more vulnerable.

News: The oceans are full of heat, and it’s coming ashore

By Grist Magazine on Jul 13, 2026 08:53 pm
The ocean absorbs 90 percent of the excess heat from global warming. It doesn’t all stay there.

News: WMO highlights sand and dust storm hotspots, impacts and research

By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Jul 13, 2026 08:48 pm
Some parts of the world, including China and the US-Mexican border, experienced record- breaking sand and dust storms in 2025, impacting health and the environment and disrupting economic activities and transport.

News: ‘Super’ El Niño could cause global food price shock lasting into 2028, analysts say

By Guardian, the (UK) on Jul 13, 2026 08:47 pm
Weather cycle threatens harvests worldwide, adding to inflation already fuelled by the Iran war.

News: Why natural forests survive heat waves better than planted forests

By Eos – AGU on Jul 13, 2026 08:47 pm
A new study shows the pros and cons of different model training methods.

News: Tiny mountain lakes pose big, overlooked flood risks, study warns

By University of Aberdeen on Jul 13, 2026 08:47 pm
Researchers call for urgent rethink of global hazard monitoring as “Small Alpine Lake Outbursts” emerge in a warming world.

News: Dominican Republic: U-Reporters help Hurricane Melissa response

By United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Jul 13, 2026 08:46 pm
UNICEF activated U-Report as a tool for mass communication to raise awareness and share life-saving information with young people.

News: San Andreas Fault: Hidden movements revealed by artificial intelligence

By Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) on Jul 13, 2026 04:15 pm
A research team has uncovered a previously hidden population of so-called slow slip events beneath the Parkfield section of California’s San Andreas Fault.

DRR Community Voices: From simulation to resilience: using the Stop Disasters game and local data to teach disaster risk reduction

By Reza Habibisaravi on Jul 13, 2026 11:17 am
No simulation can fully represent the complexity of real disasters. Stop Disasters simplifies reality. However, when combined with local hazard information and a structured learning approach, it provides students with a safe environment to make decisions.

News: Call for contributions 2026-2027: PROCULTHER-4ALL technical bulletins

By European Union on Jul 10, 2026 05:06 pm
Call for Papers now open! Submit your concept note by 1 September 2026 for the next editions of the PROCULTHER Technical Bulletin.

News: Could geoengineering work to tamp down Super El Niños?

By University of California, San Diego on Jul 10, 2026 02:47 pm
A 2019 Australian bushfire provided a rare opportunity to scientists by creating an effect analogous to what could be achieved through the geoengineering technique known as marine cloud brightening.

News: Building codes are not enough: Lessons from Venezuela’s earthquake

By Times of India, the on Jul 10, 2026 02:42 pm
Simply improving building codes will not achieve effective outcomes again earthquakes without robust enforcement and adherence to retrofitting regulations says this author.

News: How climate change is impacting farmers in the Pacific and what can be done to adapt

By Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Jul 10, 2026 02:36 pm
The Fijian Minister for Agriculture explains how climate change is affecting the country’s vital farming sector.

News: Dwindling seagrass disproportionately impacts coastal women along Mozambique’s Inhambane bay

By World Resources Institute on Jul 10, 2026 02:13 pm
Climate change is not just threatening coastal women’s incomes, but also their food security, cultural practices and social identities. Yet their voices remain largely absent from ocean governance.

News: Calculating the costs of wetland loss

By Eos – AGU on Jul 10, 2026 02:13 pm
Wetlands protect communities and ecosystems from flooding. A study quantifies their financial importance.

News: From fire to resilience: rethinking how Algeria manages its forests

By World Bank, the on Jul 10, 2026 02:13 pm
In the summer of 2021, the hills of northeastern Algeria disappeared behind walls of smoke. Wildfires swept through Béjaïa, El Tarf, and Tizi Ouzou with a speed and ferocity that overwhelmed communities and firefighters alike.

News: Earthquakes in Venezuela expose a severely under‑resourced and unprepared healthcare system

By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 10, 2026 02:12 pm
Twin earthquakes struck Venezuela on June 24, 2026, causing major damage in Caracas and a nearby coastal city, La Guaira. At the time of publication, 3,685 people have been declared dead, and more than 30,000 remain missin

DRR Community Voices: Sendai Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism: Turning participation into action for disaster risk reduction

By Katherine Sotomayor, Tanjir Hossain on Jul 10, 2026 01:08 pm
Launched in 2018, SEM was created in response to a simple realisation: disaster risk reduction cannot succeed, and the targets of the Sendai Framework cannot be achieved, without the meaningful and structured inclusion of all-of-society actors.

News: How 65 major U.S. cities are responding to urban heat

By Climate Central on Jul 09, 2026 03:56 pm
Climate Central analysis shows that residents of the 65 largest U.S. cities experience an average of 8°F of extra heat due to the built environment.

News: The ripple effects of industrial disasters

By Domestic Preparedness on Jul 09, 2026 02:25 pm
The East Palestine derailment illustrates an increasingly common reality: industrial facilities and critical infrastructure systems operate within highly interconnected environments.

News: Why heatwaves hit women harder

By British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on Jul 09, 2026 02:21 pm
Biologically, women’s greater risk comes down to two things: the natural rise and fall of our hormone levels and our body’s response to heat, which are different to men’s, Dr Arif said.

News: The tiny microalgae behind South Australia’s harmful algal bloom is among the most toxic ever tested

By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 09, 2026 02:18 pm
Over the past 15 months, one of the country’s worst marine environmental disasters has been unfolding in South Australia.

News: Ocean temperatures may be shielding Earth from a planet-wide drought

By Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) on Jul 09, 2026 02:18 pm
A new study suggests the world is far less likely to experience a single, planet-wide drought than previously feared.

News: Older adults are at risk in heat waves, but it’s not just age: How public systems and policies are failing them

By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 09, 2026 02:18 pm
Five years ago, British Columbia’s heat dome became one of the deadliest weather disasters in Canadian history.

News: When heat rises, farmers shift gears: How extreme temperatures are reshaping agricultural input use decisions in West Africa

By World Bank, the on Jul 09, 2026 02:18 pm
A new study of groundnut farming in Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria asks: when temperatures soar, how do farmers change what they put into the ground?

News: Mechanically ventilated spaces reduce wildfire smoke concentration: research

By Facilities Dive on Jul 09, 2026 02:17 pm
An Oregon State University study found that mechanically ventilated spaces were better than window AC and mini-splits at lowering indoor particulate matter concentrations.

News: Extreme heat, effective imagery

By Climate Outreach (formerly COIN) on Jul 09, 2026 02:17 pm
As people across the UK feel the effects of what could be one of the longest-lasting heatwaves since 1976, communities around the world are also suffering from periods of extreme heat.

News: New regional initiative documenting traditional & cultural practices of heat management in Southeast Asia

By Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) on Jul 09, 2026 01:53 pm
Seeking contributions on traditional medicine, vernacular architecture, agricultural practices, clothing traditions, oral history, and other community-based knowledge related to heat prevention and management

News: Ebola outbreak: A crisis of history, not misinformation

By The New Humanitarian on Jul 09, 2026 09:04 am
This opinion piece argues that mistrust in Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is rooted less in misinformation than in histories of conflict, neglect and unequal care, calling for locally led, trust-based public health action.

News: Mental images of global warming in the Indian mind

By Yale Program on Climate Change Communication on Jul 08, 2026 04:29 pm
Global warming is increasingly shaping daily life in India through extreme heat, changing rainfall patterns, floods, and droughts. But public understanding of “global warming” is not uniform.

News: Resilience projects need funding. Green banks could help them reach new investors, one researcher says

By Smart Cities Drive on Jul 08, 2026 04:28 pm
A hybrid institutional capital model could package small infrastructure resilience projects to make them attractive to institutional investors, a new research paper proposes.

News: Super typhoon Bavi intensifies over climate-fueled ocean heat as marine heat waves grip every major ocean basin

By Climate Central on Jul 08, 2026 04:28 pm
Super Typhoon Bavi underwent extreme rapid intensification over exceptionally warm waters in the Pacific Ocean that were made up to 80 times more likely by climate change.

News: France’s June heatwave caused more than 2,700 heat-related deaths

By Carbon Brief on Jul 08, 2026 03:06 pm
In June 2026, daily high temperatures averaged across France reached 36.9C, shattering the previous June record set in 2022 by 2.4C.

News: Study reveals the world’s cities most at risk from extreme heat

By University of Oxford on Jul 08, 2026 02:41 pm
Research from the University of Oxford has ranked 205 of the world’s largest cities by their risk from extreme heat, identifying where people are most in danger as global temperatures rise.

News: Electric companies don’t need to black out customers to prevent wildfires – here are 3 relatively fast, affordable solutions

By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 08, 2026 02:40 pm
A severe winter snow drought has left snowpack levels far below normal across the American West in 2026.

News: AI can predict disaster, but it can’t save you

By Yale Climate Connections on Jul 08, 2026 02:40 pm
AI-driven forecasts can tell you when dangerous weather is coming. But what if you have nowhere to go?

News: Ready before the river rises: a new public-private financing model for protecting communities in Bangladesh

By Financial Protection Forum (World Bank) on Jul 08, 2026 02:39 pm
The government has designed what it calls a “continuum of support”, a two-instrument financing package that layers government resources on top of existing humanitarian delivery systems.

News: Playing for the planet: gamified learning and global health education

By Open Access Government on Jul 08, 2026 02:39 pm
Dr Michael J Dillon and Professor Laura Bowater emphasise the significance of gamification in global health education amidst increasingly complex challenges

News: Who is most at risk? A global vision indicator to measure climate vulnerability

By World Bank, the on Jul 08, 2026 02:38 pm
Nearly 1 in 5 people globally are at high risk from climate hazards, living in areas exposed to extreme weather with limited capacity to recover from its impacts.

News: M&S invests in fridges that can cope with weather as hot as 45C

By Guardian, the (UK) on Jul 08, 2026 02:31 pm
Retailer admits it struggled in June heatwave and also had to order more ice-cream to keep pace with demand.

News: Study explores social media’s role in tornado disaster communication

By University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Jul 08, 2026 02:23 pm
When a powerful EF-4 tornado tore through Rolling Fork, Mississippi, on March 24, 2023, social media became a critical tool for sharing weather warnings, damage reports and recovery information

News: Global warming and increasing wildfire risk threaten viability of elite wine-growing regions in California – but others may boom

By Frontiers in Climate on Jul 08, 2026 02:21 pm
Mendocino and Monterey could become increasingly favorable for premium vintages under shifting climate, while Napa and Sonoma may face increased pressure in grape cultivation.

News: McKinsey Global Institute: Climate planning has prioritized floods. Heat demands equal attention

By Fortune on Jul 08, 2026 02:16 pm
The world continues to underinvest in heat adaptation and climate resilience more broadly. Companies that lead on adaptation can not only protect their bottom lines but also contribute to a more stable and resilient economy.

News: Ocean warming, marine heatwaves and sea-level rise pose increasing risk in South-West Pacific region

By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Jul 08, 2026 01:56 pm
The vast ocean expanse in the South-West Pacific is becoming hotter and more acidic, harming local economies and marine ecosystems, whilst rising sea levels threaten vulnerable coastal communities and low-lying island nations.

DRR Community Voices: Small businesses are key to building resilient cities

By Ignasi Fontanals on Jul 08, 2026 01:38 pm
Can cities and SMEs can access the operational resilience tools – continuity plans, crisis exercises, risk assessments and risk transfer approaches – that have traditionally been available mainly to large companies and major consultancies?

News: Extreme heat escapes insurance losses despite mounting physical climate risk

By Insurance Business Online, Key Media on Jul 07, 2026 03:58 pm
IAG finds Australians remain underprepared despite widespread heatwave impacts

News: Study finds clear‑cut logging can dramatically increase flood risk

By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 07, 2026 03:57 pm
This study from the University of British Columbia finds that, without logging, flood risk due to reduced snow melt was decreasing. But after logging, this was reversed, leading to significant upward trend in flood risk.

News: AI-enhanced rare-event sampling helps predict extreme weather

By Physics World on Jul 07, 2026 03:57 pm
The frequency of extreme weather events can be predicted more accurately than presently possible by combining artificial intelligence (AI) with physical climate modelling, using a protocol called rare-event sampling.

News: When drought, dry landscapes and growing towns collide: Wildfire hotspots in Southern Europe

By Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) on Jul 07, 2026 03:56 pm
In some parts of Southern Europe, more than half of the land has burned at least once in the last two decades.

News: Research finds connection to place predicts hurricane

By Risk Analysis (Wiley) on Jul 07, 2026 02:43 pm
A study published in Risk Analysis, finds that among residents living in flood-prone areas, place attachment is strongly related to protective action.

News: A milestone in the Americas: El Salvador embeds anticipatory action within its national contingency plan for hydroclimatic events

By Anticipation Hub on Jul 07, 2026 02:08 pm
El Salvador’s recently published National Contingency Plan for Hydroclimatic Events formally embeds anticipatory action within its operational architecture, providing a model for other countries to follow.

News: Building resilience together: the role of the Fijian private sector in the Pacific resilience facility

By Connecting Business initiative on Jul 07, 2026 11:03 am
Despite being a small island nation, Fiji is punching above its weight class when it comes to being proactive about mitigating the effects of climate change and investing in resilience.