In the 06/23/2026 edition:
Climate resilience and disaster preparedness are becoming central priorities worldwide as countries respond to escalating risks from wildfires, floods, extreme heat, El Niño, earthquakes, and climate-related disasters in 2026.
News: Belize shows why investing in early warnings pays off
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Jun 22, 2026 04:25 pm
In Belize, the value of early warnings is now being shown not only through the lives and livelihoods they help protect, but also through the economic benefits they bring.
News: Homa Bay approves people-led climate adaptation plan
By Global Center on Adaptation on Jun 22, 2026 04:21 pm
Across Africa, the impacts of climate change are often felt first and most severely by low-income communities living in informal settlements.
News: What old wildfires can teach us about protecting homes from embers
By USA Today – Gannet Co. Inc. on Jun 22, 2026 04:21 pm
Studies of the aftermath of fast-moving wildfires like the Carr Fire in Shasta County and the Camp Fire in Butte County , both in 2018, show that blazes can flatten entire neighborhoods, leaving only one or two houses standing.
News: From forest to front door: understanding how wildfire spreads through communities
By University of California, Berkeley on Jun 22, 2026 04:21 pm
As California’s population boomed — from 10 million in 1950 to over 40 million today — the number of people living in fire-prone areas multiplied.
News: Pacific Prepared: The Nauru Meteorological Service explains what El Niño weather pattern is and how it might impact people on the small island nation
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Jun 22, 2026 03:04 pm
It’s predicted that within the next three to four months, an El Niño weather pattern could impact parts of the Pacific, including the world’s third-smallest country, Naoero (formerly Nauru).
News: Safeguarding the beautiful game: DisasterAWARE powers World cup health security
By Pacific Disaster Center on Jun 22, 2026 02:59 pm
With more than 6.5 million fans from over 100 countries converging on cities across the United States, Mexico, and Canada for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the public health stakes are significant.
News: Desperate for shade on your walk? There’s (almost) an app for that
By Grist Magazine on Jun 19, 2026 04:59 pm
By mapping shade, a new online tool calculates the best way to stroll a city without overheating.
News: Breaking the debt–climate trap in Asia and the Pacific
By Asian Development Bank Institute on Jun 19, 2026 03:49 pm
Developing economies in Asia and the Pacific are caught in a dangerous feedback loop: rising debt burdens are constraining their ability to invest in climate action, while climate shocks are worsening fiscal pressures and increasing debt risks.
News: UK rivers face rising risk of climate ‘whiplash’
By University of East Anglia on Jun 19, 2026 03:44 pm
Climate change could push UK rivers to dangerous extremes and see more frequent rapid swings between wet and dry conditions – a phenomenon known as hydroclimatic whiplash – according to research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA).
News: Brown researchers launch tool to map World Cup players, fans and potential to spread disease
By Brown University on Jun 19, 2026 03:44 pm
Using data from FIFA, Brown epidemiologists developed a tracking tool aimed at assisting public health experts in the event of an infectious disease outbreak.
News: Philippines holds nationwide earthquake drill amid rising seismic activities, volcanic unrest
By Thomson Reuters on Jun 19, 2026 03:35 pm
The Nationwide Simultaneous Earthquake Drill, organised by the Southeast Asian country’s Office of Civil Defense, aims to brace the population with better coordination, preparedness and resilience.
News: Inclusive climate risk finance: the idea is right, the execution is hard
By Centre for Disaster Protection on Jun 19, 2026 03:24 pm
The ICP represents a step in the right direction. It marks a departure from how major climate risk finance initiatives have typically operated, building inclusive planning into its architecture rather than treating it as an afterthought.
News: Rwanda strengthens Ebola preparedness in protected areas
By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Jun 19, 2026 02:50 pm
FAO and partners trained over 150 veterinarians, park rangers, park guides, and porters to strengthen their capacities in Ebola Virus Disease preparedness and response.
News: Barbuda moves closer to tsunami ready status following successful community exercise
By Antigua news on Jun 19, 2026 02:34 pm
Barbuda has moved a step closer to achieving internationally recognized Tsunami Ready status after successfully completing a three-day exercise focused on disaster preparedness, public education, and emergency response.
News: Government changes in Bangladesh and West Bengal could impact river treaties
By Dialogue Earth on Jun 19, 2026 12:28 pm
In India and Bangladesh, two recent changes of government on either side of the border have brought two shared river systems into focus: the Ganges and the Teesta.
News: As India gets hotter, clothing adds a layer to caste inequality
By Dialogue Earth on Jun 19, 2026 12:18 pm
Inside the narrow lanes of Shahbad Dairy, a suburb outside north-west Delhi, is a concrete maze of houses packed tightly together. Trees are scarce.
News: Floating volcanic rock is disrupting life in Papua New Guinea – and the problem will last a long time
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jun 19, 2026 12:08 pm
People in parts of Papua New Guinea are facing an unusual problem. Floating volcanic rock is making boat travel difficult, blocking access to fishing grounds and disrupting daily life in coastal communities.
News: When multiple hazards interact and the data doesn’t: The multi-hazard modelling problem nobody wants to talk about
By European Geosciences Union on Jun 19, 2026 11:59 am
There is a quiet contradiction at the heart of natural hazard science. The regions most exposed to multi-hazard events are precisely the regions where we know the least.
News: Extreme weather and climate events impact millions in Africa in 2025
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Jun 19, 2026 11:23 am
Extreme weather and climate-related events affected at least 13 million people and led to over 3 000 reported fatalities in Africa in 2025, with knock-on effects across all sectors of the economy and society.
News: Italy’s Cinque Terre coastline could be hit by 13-metre waves by 2150 as sea levels rise
By Euronews on Jun 18, 2026 04:41 pm
Beaches, ports and, during extreme events, even the railway line that runs through the Cinque Terre National Park are at risk.
News: Why only a few wildfires become extreme
By University Corporation for Atmospheric Research on Jun 18, 2026 03:40 pm
Hot, dry conditions set the stage, but it takes a short-lived local window of opportunity to produce an extreme wildfire
News: Heat waves increase wildfire risk – a new study explains how much, and it’s not a small number
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jun 18, 2026 03:20 pm
When heat waves hit the Western United States, the risk of wildfires quickly rises. The prolonged heat dries out vegetation, but that’s only part of the cause – heat waves also play other roles in spreading wildfires.
News: A ‘super’ El Niño has the power to devastate fishing – and leave seals and sea lions starving
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jun 18, 2026 03:02 pm
This is defined as the strongest El Niño event you can get, and happens when sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean rise by more than 2°C.
News: Italy’s Cinque Terre coastline could be hit by 13-metre waves by 2150 as sea levels rise
By Euronews on Jun 18, 2026 02:48 pm
Beaches, ports and, during extreme events, even the railway line that runs through the Cinque Terre National Park are at risk.
News: TCE Group develops novel forecasting model to predict river temperature
By University of Tennessee Knoxville on Jun 18, 2026 02:26 pm
There is a need for methods that can sustain reliable forecasting using potentially incomplete or unavailable sensor data to help limit downtime at power plants and maintain continuity during periods of sensor disruption.
News: Reimagining insurance in NZ — Risk-sharing for a climate-challenged era
By Climate Adaptation Platform (CAP) on Jun 18, 2026 02:00 pm
As climate change risks increase, insurance premiums are rising, making coverage unaffordable for many, especially those in high-risk areas.
News: Supreme court’s limitation on wetlands protection will make flooding worse
By Inside Climate News on Jun 18, 2026 01:46 pm
A new study calculates the dollar value of wetlands in reducing river flooding. But in Sackett vs. EPA, the high court rolled back protections for nature’s first line of defense.
News: The value of loss and damage data, from early warning to recovery
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Jun 18, 2026 01:41 pm
From drought preparedness in Africa to institutional strengthening in Kyrgyzstan and post-conflict recovery planning in the agricultural sector in Lebanon, explore how loss and damage data is being used as a resource for decision-making.
News: Louisiana’s managed retreat — Model for coastal climate adaptation worldwide?
By Climate Adaptation Platform (CAP) on Jun 18, 2026 01:22 pm
Depopulation in the state’s coastal communities has been significant since Hurricane Katrina, an extremely powerful and destructive storm that hit the state in August 2005. It was responsible for 1833 deaths and approximately $108 billion in damage.
News: From shaking to consequences: GEM to unveil new global earthquake risk products
By Global Earthquake Model Foundation (GEM) on Jun 18, 2026 12:52 pm
The GEM 2026 products update and expand the global view of seismic hazard and risk to include infrastructure exposure to liquefaction, future risk trajectories, and the carbon cost of earthquake damage and reconstruction.
DRR Community Voices: Unifying climate and disaster risk management: Linking UNDRR and the UNFCCC through the Nairobi Work Programme to strengthen adaptation
By Rhiannon Hawkins, Carina Fearnley on Jun 17, 2026 05:49 pm
The sixty-fourth session of the Subsidiary Bodies under the UNFCCC SB64, held in Bonn, Germany, from 8–18 June 2026, offered encouraging examples of dialogue and collaboration on climate change impacts.
News: How UNDRR is helping Syria lay the foundation for a resilient future
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Jun 17, 2026 05:38 pm
Syria became one of the earliest countries to implement UNDRR’s DELTA Resilience system, which will help it better understand and reduce the disaster risks it faces as it recovers from years of war.
News: A tool can help protect communities from flooding and optimize reservoir management during rain-on-snow events
By Disaster Research Institute, Preston University on Jun 17, 2026 05:38 pm
Beyond helping emergency managers better alert downstream communities to flooding events, tracking rapid runoff allows water managers to improve reservoir management.
News: UCF coastal expert: Extreme coastal water level events are now 12 times more likely to occur
By College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida on Jun 17, 2026 05:31 pm
In 1900, coastal communities could expect certain extreme water level events to occur on average once in a century; in other words there was only a 1% chance to experience such an event in any given year.
News: 50-megapixel Earth models capture storms in unprecedented detail — but share four consistent blind spots
By Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences on Jun 17, 2026 05:26 pm
Traditional global climate models were like early digital cameras — they had only about ten thousand pixels to cover the entire planet. At that low resolution, big storm systems looked like blurry blobs.
News: 2026 El Niño health risks: Six extreme weather threats facing the Americas
By Direct Relief on Jun 17, 2026 05:15 pm
Experts weigh in on health risks from extreme weather and what impacted communities across the Americas could see this year.
News: Climate change is threatening sheep farmers in South Africa’s Drakensberg – how they’re adapting
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jun 17, 2026 05:12 pm
In the rugged and mountainous Drakensberg grasslands of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, farmers rear sheep for food, cultural practices and financial security.
News: When floods come, India’s elderly pay the heaviest price
By Down To Earth on Jun 17, 2026 05:09 pm
Research links water-related disasters to heightened disease risk among older adults. Yet, disaster planning continues to ignore them.
News: The ‘super El Niño’ is here. What happens next could upend food systems worldwide
By Grist Magazine on Jun 17, 2026 05:04 pm
The oceanic phenomenon known as El Niño, which increases temperatures worldwide, has officially begun, according to U.S. weather forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
News: The children’s climate risk report 2026
By United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Jun 17, 2026 04:09 pm
Climate hazards have always occurred naturally, but human-induced global warming is changing much of the world as we know it.
News: Extreme heat and rainfall, glacier loss and record ocean heat impact Asia in 2025
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Jun 17, 2026 03:50 pm
Dangerous heat, devastating rainfall and flooding, and severe drought affected millions of people across Asia in 2025, exacting a heavy human and economic toll.
News: Japan government approves plan to more than halve Tokyo area quake deaths
By NHK World, Japan International Broadcasting on Jun 16, 2026 04:30 pm
Japan’s government has approved a revised plan to prepare for a major earthquake centered on the greater Tokyo area.
News: Climate change reshapes Spain’s rockfall risk as frost weathering moves uphill
By PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd on Jun 16, 2026 04:27 pm
Climate change is altering where and when rocks are most likely to fracture across Spain, according to new research that suggests warming temperatures are redistributing a key process responsible for breaking down mountain landscapes.
News: Could a controversial cooling strategy save our fisheries and coral reefs from marine heat waves?
By Michigan State University on Jun 16, 2026 04:16 pm
As the planet continues to warm, marine heat waves are growing longer and deadlier, hurting the seafood supply that billions of people worldwide rely on for their food and livelihoods.
News: ‘It’s going to be extremely hot’: workers imperiled as sweltering World Cup temperatures are forecast
By Guardian, the (UK) on Jun 16, 2026 04:12 pm
It could top 90F in several cities hosting World Cup games – and workers could pay the price with their health.
News: Understanding heatwaves: beyond extreme temperatures
By Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) on Jun 16, 2026 04:06 pm
Understanding and monitoring extreme thermal conditions – shaped by a combination of temperature, humidity, sunshine, and wind speed – is essential to help protect human life.
News: The Netherlands vs the sea: The race to hold back rising waters
By Cable News Network on Jun 16, 2026 04:00 pm
The Netherlands has spent decades building and perfecting one of the most sophisticated water-defense systems in the world.
News: Researchers find trees can shield homes from storms
By Florida International University on Jun 16, 2026 03:46 pm
The study showed that trees around a low-rise building can reduce the wind force on segments by as much as 50%.
News: Extreme heat: a new red card for sports?
By Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) on Jun 16, 2026 03:35 pm
Extreme heat is reshaping sports and sport governance faster than many events are ready for. In this article, experts Ollie Jay, Lachlan McIver, Alejandro Saez Reale and Marc Gordon set out what’s at stake.