In the 07/28/2026 edition:
Global Disaster Risk News highlights the latest developments in disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate resilience, and emergency preparedness worldwide. This edition covers earthquakes, floods, landslides, heatwaves, wildfires, AI-powered forecasting, early warning systems, and other major disaster-related events reported on July 28, 2026.
News: Why we should prepare for landslides ahead of time
By TBS -The Business Standard -Bangladesh on Jul 27, 2026 04:11 pm
With approaching and nearly half a million people still live on the risky hilly terrain of the southeastern part of the country. It is a crucial time to update disaster preparedness and contingency policies with the core ideas of anticipatory action.
News: Media update: New global earthquake hazard, risk, liquefaction and carbon resources now available
By Global Earthquake Model Foundation (GEM) on Jul 27, 2026 04:10 pm
The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation has released four new global resources on earthquake hazard, risk, infrastructure exposure and the carbon consequences of earthquake damage.
News: The airport that can’t afford to stop
By Connecting Business initiative on Jul 27, 2026 04:00 pm
For three days in April this year, airport staff, government officials, and humanitarian responders sat down at NAIA not to talk about check-in queues or runway slots, but about something harder: what does this airport look like when a crisis hits?
News: How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse?
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 27, 2026 03:57 pm
Today researchers can provide a scientifically grounded answer assessing if climate change made a heat wave hotter, increased rainfall from a hurricane, or made a drought more severe. But answers are not always straightforward, and not equally certain.
News: ECE professor develops AI-driven method to improve forecasts weeks in advance
By Colorado State University on Jul 27, 2026 03:48 pm
By producing an ensemble of possible outcomes, the new framework both improves precipitation forecast accuracy and helps researchers better quantify uncertainty. More reliable precipitation forecasts could support decision-making.
News: For India’s women, indoor heat is theirs to bear and theirs to fix
By Dialogue Earth on Jul 27, 2026 03:33 pm
Gender inequality sees women labour in poor quality housing despite soaring temperatures, with solutions limited, expensive and inadequate
News: A global agenda for sustaining river deltas: Getting at governance
By Onewater on Jul 27, 2026 03:25 pm
Globally, river deltas are sinking and shrinking due to altered freshwater and sediment flows. Relying solely on structural interventions and engineered adaptations may be counterproductive.
News: Mozambique strengthens climate resilience: Maputo and Beira test the national flood early warning system
By CIMA Foundation – Centro Internazionale in Monitoraggio Ambientale on Jul 27, 2026 03:17 pm
The first national Command Post Exercise brought together the emergency operations centres in Maputo and Beira to simulate a tropical cyclone, testing operational procedures, information flows and emergency response capacity.
DRR Community Voices: How drone-based multispectral mapping supports disaster risk assessment and early warning
By Patrick Maple on Jul 24, 2026 07:00 pm
The most valuable drone flight is not necessarily the one carried out immediately after a disaster. It may be the routine survey conducted months earlier, documenting a landscape before it changes.
News: Urgent action is needed to protect Somalia from a potentially unprecedented weather event, experts warn
By Cardiff University on Jul 24, 2026 03:26 pm
Urgent investment is needed to ensure Somalia is prepared for a rare weather event that could be more severe due to the impact of climate change, academics warn.
News: Patterns in industrial accidents: lessons for emergency response
By Domestic Preparedness on Jul 24, 2026 02:56 pm
The central lesson from CSB investigations is that uncertainty during emergencies follow recognizable patterns: Incidents begin during routine work, then failures cascade. Escalation outpaces response and safeguards can be unreliable.
News: The year climate change came for the Tour de France
By Grist Magazine on Jul 24, 2026 02:53 pm
Record heat, wildfire threats, and an unprecedented stage modification highlighted the growing challenge global warming poses to endurance sports.
News: Building South America’s first regional severe weather forecasting programme
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Jul 24, 2026 02:46 pm
Five South American countries are joining forces under a new regional forecasting programme to improve severe weather warnings across the La Plata Basin.
News: Himalayan monasteries help close observation gaps
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Jul 24, 2026 02:45 pm
A citizen science initiative is partnering with Himalayan monasteries to host weather stations, improving climate observations in some of the world’s least monitored mountain regions.
News: We received no alert, say leaders of First Nations communities razed by Canadian wildfires
By Guardian, the (UK) on Jul 24, 2026 02:44 pm
Chiefs in Ontario say they were left to self-evacuate before homes burned to ground, after being told there was no imminent threat.
News: France records more than 5,700 excess deaths during June heatwave
By Guardian, the (UK) on Jul 24, 2026 02:41 pm
Figures come as large parts of southern Europe endure another record-breaking period of extreme temperatures.
News: Predicting where wildfire smoke will go next
By University of Wisconsin-Madison on Jul 24, 2026 02:39 pm
A collaboration between researchers is advancing new methods to improve air quality forecasting and public health alerts, highlighting the role of statistics in tackling real-world environmental challenges.
News: More mosquito disease days in 95% of major U.S. cities
By Climate Central on Jul 24, 2026 02:39 pm
As the climate warms because of heat-trapping pollution, spring is arriving earlier and summer temperatures are lingering later into the fall. As a result, mosquitoes can emerge earlier, remain active longer, and spread disease over a longer season.
News: Guam, CNMI suffer impacts from second super typhoon in just 83 days
By Pacific Disaster Center on Jul 24, 2026 02:34 pm
As Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) braced for impacts from a second super typhoon in less than three months, the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) joined regional preparedness coordination and relief efforts.
News: Millions face long-term coastal flooding risk in UK without climate action, scientists warn
By Guardian, the (UK) on Jul 24, 2026 02:31 pm
A ‘reasonable worst-case scenario’ suggests need for large-scale movement of populations away from reshaped coast.
News: The impact of El Niño will be shaped by what we decide today
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean on Jul 23, 2026 08:20 pm
Preparedness should not be understood as an expense, but as the investment that allows life, production and essential services to carry on when the climate turns adverse.
News: 8 blazing new technologies that could spark change in wildfire risk reduction
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Jul 23, 2026 05:19 pm
The impacts of climate change are escalating, compounded by urban expansion into fire-prone areas. Eight cutting-edge technologies have the potential to revolutionize wildfire risk reduction strategies.
News: Urgent cuts to global greenhouse gas emissions needed to avoid worst sea-level rise flooding in the UK, study shows
By University of Bristol on Jul 23, 2026 05:05 pm
A pioneering study has revealed that by the turn of the next century at least half a million more people in the UK will be exposed to risk of coastal flooding – a 25% increase compared to now.
News: More snow is falling as rain in Washington, leading to increased drought in key agricultural areas
By Inside Climate News on Jul 23, 2026 04:56 pm
Climate models show warmer winters, with precipitation rates staying about the same but producing more rain and less snowpack, which leads to summer drought.
News: “We’re heading into the peak season now.”
By WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) on Jul 23, 2026 04:47 pm
SLF forest fire expert Julia Miller joins us for an interview to explain why so many forests in Europe are burning, why the situation is not going to improve – and why such extreme events will become more frequent in the coming decades.
News: AusAlert will deliver emergency warnings to all – but they must actually be accessible
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 23, 2026 03:19 pm
Millions of people in Australia are about to feel their phones buzz with a message and hear a loud, siren-like warning. It’s a preview of how the country plans to warn its population when the next bushfire, flood or cyclone comes down.
News: Increasingly hot Europe faces more severe droughts and growing challenges for water and land management
By World Weather Attribution on Jul 23, 2026 03:13 pm
The European summer of 2026 has so far been characterised by exceptional heat and widespread dryness.
News: Igniting change: 5 AI innovations to help extinguish wildfire risks
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Jul 23, 2026 09:42 am
Artificial intelligence (AI) has had some bad press. However, AI is also showing its value as a transformative technology that could change the way we manage threats. One such threat is wildfire. Discover AI innovations in managing wildfire risk.
News: Shedding light on uninsured loss
By Moody’s on Jul 22, 2026 03:24 pm
The protection gap — the difference between total economic losses and the share that insurance actually covers — is a widening, systemic risk. Here is why it matters, who absorbs the cost, and how catastrophe models can help bring it into view.
News: Rising seas magnify the dangers of coastal Georgia’s industrial past
By Grist Magazine on Jul 22, 2026 02:40 pm
The state’s first Superfund research center is looking into how climate change is resurfacing industrial pollution.
News: Podcast – Prepared before the storm: Coordinating transportation resources across State lines
By Domestic Preparedness on Jul 22, 2026 02:32 pm
Transportation resilience depends as much on coordination as infrastructure. Josh Rodriguez of AASHTO explains why effective preparedness begins long before a disaster occurs and how formal mutual aid transforms emergency response into planned capability.
News: Wildfire smoke threatens the World Cup final. FIFA still doesn’t have a plan
By Grist Magazine on Jul 21, 2026 03:13 pm
There’s no way to close off the open-air stadium where stars Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal are slated to square off.
News: When disaster recovery becomes a way of life: Community disaster fatigue is on the rise with more frequent floods
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 21, 2026 11:21 am
Flash flooding has been tearing up communities across the U.S., with heavy downpours sending creeks and rivers rushing over their banks from Texas to Kentucky , across the Midwest and into the Mid-Atlantic states and the Northeast.
News: Himalayan snowfall has been miscalculated for years, here’s how we found a new way to measure it
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 21, 2026 11:09 am
Mountain snow and meltwater from glaciers in the Himalayas determine how much water is available for drinking, farming and hydropower for millions of people in India, Pakistan, Nepal, China and Afghanistan.
News: A ‘crisis communication gap’ threatens Indigenous peoples
By Grist Magazine on Jul 21, 2026 10:54 am
Most emergency alerts and warnings are not provided in languages spoken by Indigenous peoples, placing them at greater risk during fires, floods, and other disasters.