In the 12/30/2025 edition:
In today’s global climate news briefing, major developments in disaster risk reduction, climate change impacts, and climate migration reveal how governments, scientists, and communities are strengthening resilience in the face of growing environmental and economic shocks.
News: Adaptive social protection against climate and economic shocks in Sri Lanka
By Development Asia on Dec 29, 2025 03:13 pm
Adaptive Social Protection responds to the demand to use social protection as a tool for building the resilience of poor and vulnerable households against covariate shocks, such as natural disasters, economic crises, pandemics, and forced displacement.
News: What lies beneath Greenland could change what we know about rising seas
By University of Ottawa on Dec 29, 2025 02:48 pm
A new study provides insights into the Greenland and northeastern Canada region’s geological history and the response of the ice sheet to past and future climate change
News: New study guides climate modelers on partnering with Indigenous communities
By University at Buffalo on Dec 29, 2025 02:33 pm
A University at Buffalo researcher has developed a framework to help scientists incorporate community input into Earth system models, tools that simulate climate as well as chemical and biological processes.
News: Europe’s climate refugees: The Greek communities wiped off the map
By Politico on Dec 29, 2025 09:09 am
Villages in the country’s agricultural breadbasket lie half-abandoned two years after catastrophic floods.
News: Getting post-disaster housing recovery right
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Dec 29, 2025 09:04 am
Successful post-disaster housing recovery is about much more than the buildings. SRSG Kamal Kishore reflects on what often goes wrong in post-disaster housing recovery, and how these mistakes can be avoided.
News: Meet the first climate migrants leaving sinking Tuvalu to start a new life in Australia
By Euronews on Dec 29, 2025 09:00 am
More than one-third of Tuvalu’s 11,000 population applied for an unprecedented climate visa scheme under a deal struck with Australia two years ago.
News: Sri Lanka: How Tamils face repeated disaster warning failures
By The New Humanitarian on Dec 24, 2025 12:39 pm
While Sri Lanka has established a national multi-hazard early warning system, the communications breakdown during Cyclone Ditwah raises serious doubts about whether “inclusive, people-centred” approaches mandated under EW4A exist in the country.
News: Why Arctic ice melt paused
By The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on Dec 24, 2025 10:29 am
A research team has discovered a significant slowdown in Arctic sea ice melting since 2012, with the decrease rate of 11.3% per decade to an insignificant downward trend of only −0.4% per decade.
News: Earth’s growing heat imbalance driven more by clouds than air pollution, study finds
By University of Miami on Dec 24, 2025 10:22 am
Satellite and reanalysis data show aerosol changes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres largely cancel out, shifting attention to cloud changes due to surface warming and natural climate variability.
News: Climate risks are becoming financial risks, as Mongolia’s experience reveals
By United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) on Dec 24, 2025 10:15 am
The recent ESCAP analysis on Climate Change Risks and Impacts on Mongolia’s Financial Sector shows that the financial system faces a dual challenge from physical climate risks and transition risks.
News: EU team to detect earthquakes and infrastructure damage using internet cables
By Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin on Dec 23, 2025 02:45 pm
Researchers have begun a new €5 million EU-funded project that will allow fibre optic cable lines under our roads, fields, and seas to double up as sensors that spot earthquakes and infrastructure damage, monitor traffic, and detect changes.
DRR Community Voices: Using artificial intelligence to fast-track achieving the Sendai targets
By Dr. Sanjay K. Srivastava on Dec 23, 2025 02:20 pm
In a warming world where extremes are becoming the norm, AI, and what comes after it, offers us that possibility-if we choose to deploy it not just for efficiency, but for foresight, fairness, and resilience.
News: China: An ecosystem never forgets
By Eos – AGU on Dec 23, 2025 01:25 pm
A new study in southwestern China shows how ecosystems may exhibit “hydrological memory,” which affects how they react to extreme climate events such as heat and drought.
News: UK: Helping communities prepare for extreme weather and climate change
By University of Leeds on Dec 23, 2025 01:15 pm
A Leeds academic has produced a series of booklets to help people cope with extreme weather, as the effects of climate change leave communities facing more devastating storms, floods and heatwaves.