In the 07/29/2025 edition:
Climate disasters 2025 brought massive floods, wildfires, and misinformation crises. This article explores how AI and early warnings performed—and failed.
News: Meta, X & YouTube threaten public safety by enabling and profiting from false claims during catastrophic weather events
By Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) on Jul 28, 2025 06:46 pm
As Texas reels from fatal floods, CCDH reveals how conspiracies about extreme weather spread faster than life-saving alerts.
News: Climate Resilience Alliance Podcast Solutions: Localized early warning voice messages
By Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance on Jul 28, 2025 06:03 pm
In this episode, Rabeya Begum, a resident of the Basherdangi village of Dheukhali Union in Faridpur, explains how early warning voice messages are being used to reach the most vulnerable communities.
News: How clear and simple data visualizations bring the climate crisis home
By Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Jul 28, 2025 05:39 pm
Many scientific graphics, such as those in reports of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), are designed for technical accuracy and often assume a specialized audience. As a result, they can be difficult to interpret.
News: Simulating the unthinkable: Models show nuclear winter food production plunge
By Pennsylvania State University on Jul 28, 2025 05:16 pm
A team led by researchers at Penn State have modeled precisely how various nuclear winter scenarios could impact global production of corn — the most widely planted grain crop in the world.
News: “Fengyu” of CMA, a full-chain AI forecasting model for space weather released
By China Meteorological Administration on Jul 28, 2025 04:27 pm
At WAIC – AI-powered Meteorology for Early Warnings for All, “Fengyu” of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), the world’s first full-chain AI forecasting model for space weather, was officially unveiled.
News: As typhoons become more frequent and intense, Filipinos are getting married in flooded churches
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Jul 28, 2025 04:23 pm
A couple in the Philippines was married in a flooded church amid tropical storm Wipha this week. They’re not the first couple to do it — the Philippines is hit by about 20 tropical storms each year and flooding has become a perennial issue.
News: Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity
By British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on Jul 28, 2025 04:18 pm
Google has admitted its earthquake early warning system failed to accurately alert people during Turkey’s deadly quake of 2023.
News: Weathering the storm: a conversation about NRG’s infrastructure preparations for extreme weather
By Nrg4SD on Jul 28, 2025 03:59 pm
Matt Pistner, gives a look into how NRG’s assesses the potential impact of severe climate in its markets and reinforces its facilities accordingly.
News: What the Los Angeles fires taught us about a catastrophe peril unlike any other
By Moody’s Investors Service on Jul 28, 2025 03:39 pm
The recent Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles were a devastating reminder of wildfire’s destructive power.
News: Identifying landslide threats using hydrological predictors
By Northwestern University on Jul 28, 2025 03:16 pm
Northwestern University and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) scientists have developed a new process-based framework that provides a more accurate and dynamic approach to landslide prediction over large areas.
DRR Community Voices: Women’s financial empowerment builds climate resilience
By Edgar S. Martinez on Jul 28, 2025 12:49 pm
Women are leading the way in building climate resilience. When women have access to financial services, they strengthen their communities, reinvesting most of their income into their families and local economies, driving resilience from the ground up.
News: New global study shows freshwater is disappearing at alarming rates
By Arizona State University on Jul 28, 2025 12:47 pm
An ASU-led study highlights the emergence of four continental-scale “mega-drying” regions, all located in the Northern Hemisphere, with staggering implications for freshwater availability.
News: Which wildfire smoke plumes are hazardous? New satellite tech can map them in 3D for air quality alerts at neighborhood scale
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 28, 2025 11:55 am
A satellite-based method is able to give scientists and air quality managers a 3D picture of the smoke plumes, providing detailed data of the risks down to the neighborhood level for urban and rural areas alike.
News: One year on: Collective action where the heat hits hardest
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Jul 25, 2025 10:00 pm
A year after the UN Secretary-General called for action on extreme heat, Kamal Kishore takes stock of how UNDRR and partners have responded to his call – and what still needs to be done to tackle this hot issue.
News: Pacific Prepared Podcast: Simple flag warning system introduced to Solomon Islands to help boaters make safe decisions before and during disasters
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Jul 25, 2025 07:41 pm
Solomon Islands introduces a simple system to help signal ocean conditions to boat users and the general public during emergency and disaster situations.
News: AI model improves accuracy of five-day regional weather forecasting
By Chinese Academy of Sciences on Jul 25, 2025 07:20 pm
Researchers at Northwestern Polytechnical University in China have proposed a novel deep learning–based framework that dramatically improves the accuracy of forecasts, even when data are limited.
News: Fertile grounds, uneven paths: Disaster risk finance and social protection in the Sahel
By Centre for Disaster Protection on Jul 25, 2025 06:52 pm
Disaster risk finance, channelled through social protection systems, has the potential to improve the timeliness and effectiveness of assistance when crises emerge.
News: Resident ownership helps US mobile homes weather climate change
By Context on Jul 25, 2025 05:13 pm
Forming ownership cooperatives is helping mobile home communities across the United States to better adapt to extreme weather.
News: Indonesia has the tools to protect against disasters – now it’s time to unlock their full potential
By Centre for Disaster Protection on Jul 25, 2025 05:06 pm
Every year, hazards disrupt lives across Indonesia. The country already has a variety of disaster risk financing tools and social protection programmes in place, but as climate risks grow, these need to reach more people more effectively.
News: Seismologists tapped into the fiber optic cable network to study offshore faults
By University of Washington on Jul 25, 2025 02:53 pm
The Pacific Northwest boasts an extensive network of more than 600 seismic monitoring stations that help researchers track tectonic and volcanic phenomena, including earthquakes.
News: What it takes to catch a landslide in Alaska
By University of Alaska Fairbanks on Jul 25, 2025 02:36 pm
There is need to design a detection strategy that leverages Alaska’s existing seismic network to expand the search on areas most at risk for landslides.
News: Pacific project enhances early warning systems for island resilience
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Jul 25, 2025 02:08 pm
A four-year regional project has strengthened the Pacific’s ability to anticipate, respond to, and recover from weather- and climate-related hazards.
News: Dealing with wildfires requires a whole-of-society approach
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 25, 2025 12:19 pm
Increased wildfire risk is driven by a variety of factors, including more extreme fire weather made worse by climate change, fire deficits, the accumulation of fuels like trees and other organic materials on the landscape and changing land-use.
News: Why 2025 became the summer of flash flooding in America
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 25, 2025 11:43 am
The National Weather Service has already issued more than 3,600 flash flood warnings across the United States in 2025, and that number is increasing as torrential downpours continue in late July.
News: In pursuing climate and disaster resilience, Deaf community must be included – OML Center
By Oscar M. Lopez Center for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management Foundation, Inc. on Jul 24, 2025 09:57 pm
Climate change spares no one, but it doesn’t affect everyone equally. For the Deaf community, the risks often begin with silence and lack of access to information.
News: Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning
By Google on Jul 24, 2025 09:31 pm
Using aggregated measurements from a global network of Android smartphones, we developed a system that detects earthquakes, delivers early warnings to users, and builds user trust with each successful alert.
News: Advancing earthquake prediction with an unmanned aerial vehicle
By University of Tokyo 東京大学 on Jul 24, 2025 07:26 pm
This vehicle is intended for use with the Global Navigation Satellite System-Acoustic (GNSS-A)―a system that uses satellites to determine locations on Earth―to provide a communication link with seafloor transponder stations.
News: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is harsh. Climate change is making it even harsher.
By Yale Climate Connections on Jul 24, 2025 07:18 pm
Hundreds of people face intense heat and relentless mosquitoes at the Florida Everglades facility.
News: Northeast US floods expose repeated vulnerability to pluvial flooding
By Moody’s Investors Service on Jul 24, 2025 07:04 pm
With a 60% increase in recent decades, the Northeast has experienced the largest regional increase of extreme precipitation in the U.S., according to a government report published in November 2023.
News: China’s early warning practice丨Progressive meteorological service to build a joint defense line against Typhoon Wipha
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Jul 24, 2025 06:53 pm
China has developed through years of practice an integrated early warning approach: government leadership, early warning first, cross-department collaboration and social engagement.
News: More countries are using Cat DDOs: Here are three things to know
By Centre for Disaster Protection on Jul 24, 2025 06:13 pm
Unlike traditional emergency financing disbursed after a crisis, Cat DDOs are agreed in advance and can be drawn down quickly—helping countries respond before fiscal pressures spiral.
News: Climate risks: no longer the tragedy of the horizon
By European Central Bank on Jul 24, 2025 02:33 pm
New scenarios offer financial institutions a comprehensive framework for quantifying the impacts that transition and physical risks could have on the economy by 2030.
News: Closing the gap in a global space weather monitoring system
By University of New Hampshire on Jul 24, 2025 02:25 pm
High atop the summit of Haleakalā on the island of Maui, scientists have installed equipment which effectively restores the cohesive, worldwide monitoring network that once existed
News: Nature-based solutions are essential: Six recommendations from experts
By Environmental Defense Fund on Jul 24, 2025 11:41 am
A range of experts across sectors in Florida stood united: nature-based solutions are key to protecting people and property from extreme weather and believe there is a clear path forward to incorporating these solutions into building resilience.
DRR Community Voices: Open risk, shared resilience: Exploring open-source catastrophe modelling as more than just a technical choice
By Dickie Whitaker on Jul 23, 2025 02:44 pm
Open catastrophe modelling is making risk understanding more affordable, accessible, and inclusive. This is more than a technical evolution. When catastrophe models are free, modular, and transparent, they can be adapted, improved, and applied anywhere.
News: India has a critical opportunity to drive resilient urban development, says new World Bank report
By World Bank, the on Jul 23, 2025 01:55 pm
With over 50 percent of the urban infrastructure required for 2050 still to be built, India has a critical opportunity to drive resilient urban infrastructure development.
News: How climate proofing our built environment can safeguard future generations
By World Economic Forum on Jul 23, 2025 01:49 pm
When we have climate-proof infrastructure, we are not just adapting to physical risks – we are acknowledging a duty to those who come next. We are choosing to pass on systems that are functional, affordable and resilient, not fragile and failing.
News: Researchers use AI to ‘see’ landslides and target disaster response
By University of Cambridge on Jul 23, 2025 01:40 pm
Researchers from the University of Cambridge are using AI to speed up landslide detection following major earthquakes and extreme rainfall events-buying valuable time to coordinate relief efforts and reduce humanitarian impacts.
News: Call for case studies on Nature-based Solutions in the Indian Himalayan region
By International Union for the Conservation of Nature on Jul 23, 2025 01:30 pm
Documenting Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in the Indian Himalayan Region under IUCN’s Himalaya for the Future Project
News: Cuts to early warning systems are leaving the U.S. unprepared for summer floods
By Council on Foreign Relations, The (CFR) on Jul 23, 2025 11:53 am
The extreme costs and death toll of recent floodings across Texas, New Mexico, and the Northeast have put into question the future of the United States’ emergency preparedness amid major budget and staffing cuts.
News: New study links power outages, social vulnerability in Gulf Coast
By Ohio State University on Jul 23, 2025 11:38 am
A new study shows how extreme weather and power outages can impact socially vulnerable populations in counties near the U.S. Gulf Coast.
News: Climate disasters are pushing people into homelessness – but there’s a lot we can do about it
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 23, 2025 11:33 am
Housing demand continues to outpace supply. With climate-related disasters projected to increase in frequency and severity, the task of ensuring safe and adequate housing for all Australians remains a challenge.
News: From heat to high-tech: How innovation responds to climate change
By VoxDev/ CEPR on Jul 23, 2025 09:25 am
Climate change in China is driving firms to innovate–not just where heat strikes, but through shifting demand across the economy.
News: In Uganda, deadly landslides force an agricultural reckoning
By Yale Environment 360 on Jul 23, 2025 07:42 am
As growing populations denude its slopes and heavy rain intensifies, Mount Elgon has become increasingly vulnerable to landslides. In response, Ugandan farmers are planting native trees and changing the crops to build resilience against future disasters.
News: Runway to resilience: How long-term commitment, local leadership, and engineering innovation kept Tuvalu connected to the world
By World Bank, the on Jul 22, 2025 06:05 pm
On a narrow atoll barely rising above the sea, sits one of the most remarkable pieces of infrastructure in the world, not because it is the largest, or the busiest, but because of what it means for a country that might otherwise be stranded.
News: How are Australians adapting to climate change? Here are 729 ways
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 22, 2025 05:58 pm
The authors of this article wanted to find out what Australia’s governments, industries and local groups are doing to adapt to climate change. Their work culminated in the Australian Adaptation Database, which captures more than 700 initiatives so far.
News: Machine learning reveals historical seismic events in Yellowstone caldera
By University of Western Ontario (Western University) on Jul 22, 2025 05:44 pm
A team of scientists has been able to retroactively detect and assign magnitudes to approximately 10 times more seismic events, or earthquakes, than previously recorded at Yellowstone National Park, USA.
News: How can we harness AI to tackle the complexity of disaster risk?
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Jul 22, 2025 04:33 pm
Kamal Kishore reflects on the future of disaster risk reduction – a future challenged by growing complexity, but made navigable by new AI-enabled capabilities. We must make the right choices now so that we use AI not only to do more, but to do better.
News: Kerr County’s tragic flood wasn’t an outlier. It was a preview.
By Grist Magazine on Jul 22, 2025 03:39 pm
Mounting evidence shows no state is safe from the flooding that ravaged the Texas Hill Country. Your community could be next.
News: The surprising reasons floods and other disasters are deadlier at night
By Grist Magazine on Jul 22, 2025 02:55 pm
It’s not just that it’s dark and people are asleep. Urban sprawl, confirmation bias, and other factors can play a role.
News: Three types of drought – and why there’s no such thing as a global water crisis
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 22, 2025 02:45 pm
While drought is intensifying, its causes and consequences vary. In the UK, it’s about infrastructure and governance. In the Horn of Africa, it’s about historical injustice & systemic neglect. In Chile, it’s about legal frameworks and resource extra
News: New research shows more extreme global warming impacts looming for the Northeast
By Inside Climate News on Jul 22, 2025 02:34 pm
One new study identifies a 17 percent increase in the destructive potential of the strongest nor’easters, while another bolsters links between Arctic ice melt and dangerous blizzards.
News: Igniting our response to wildfires: The power of metaphors
By University of California, Merced on Jul 22, 2025 02:20 pm
Metaphors are often effective in framing natural disasters and spurring people to action, they sometimes send the wrong message or evoke an unhelpful reaction to wildfire management.
News: Rhode Island legislators approve crucial appropriation for unique weather-related tools at URI
By University of Rhode Island on Jul 22, 2025 02:06 pm
URI programs secure state funding for CHAMP, StormTools, and MyCoast, to continue providing critical services for Rhode Island
News: Overlooked climate-change danger: Wildfire smoke
By Harvard Gazette on Jul 22, 2025 01:54 pm
Researchers rush to get hands around multiple serious health risks as blazes mount — and get bigger