In the 09/09/2025 edition:
Disaster Risk and Climate News for September 9, 2025, covers global updates on multi-hazard early warning systems, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and community resilience efforts.
DRR Community Voices: From vision to reality: making early warnings ‘truly’ multi-hazard
By Dr. Robert Sakic Trogrlic, Dr. Mirianna Budimir on Sep 08, 2025 05:34 pm
Multi‑hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) dominate the narrative-from global frameworks to national plans. Yet what “multi‑hazard” means when applied practically to an EWS remains fuzzy, and realities on the ground lag behind.
News: During another above-average hurricane season, preparation is key for sustaining Florida’s farms
By University of Florida on Sep 08, 2025 04:30 pm
Preparing Florida’s 9.7 million acres of farmland is imperative as the state navigates an “above-average” hurricane season in the Atlantic basin for the 10th year in a row.
News: New flood dataset helps communities plan for the future
By Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on Sep 08, 2025 04:21 pm
The National Ocean Service (NOS), which is part of NOAA, has launched Coastal Ocean Reanalysis (CORA), the first comprehensive dataset that includes more than four decades of modeled historical water level and wave information.
News: Taiwan study analyzes attributes of resilience after major earthquakes
By National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, the on Sep 08, 2025 04:14 pm
Resilience is a term often discussed in the face of a natural disaster such as a major earthquake, but the attributes of resilience and how they interact are rarely analyzed, researchers say in a new study.
News: USGS measures glacial flooding in Juneau, Alaska
By United States Geological Survey on Sep 08, 2025 04:13 pm
U.S. Geological Survey scientists are monitoring flooding on the Mendenhall River as water releases from Suicide Basin’s glacier-dammed lake.
News: Climate change reduced the labour share in the 21st Century
By Open Access Government on Sep 08, 2025 04:00 pm
Masahiro Yoshida, from Waseda University’s Department of Political Science and Economics, presents a theory and evidence linking climate change to the decline of labour share,
News: Damaging lightning-caused wildfires likely to increase in a few years, researchers find
By University of California, Merced on Sep 08, 2025 03:49 pm
Lightning is a major source of wildfire ignition in the western United States every summer. UC Merced researchers warn that climate change is likely to bring an increase in both cloud-to-ground lightning and the risk of lightning-caused wildfires.
News: Machine Learning model demonstrates promising seasonal forecasting capability
By Met Office on Sep 08, 2025 03:42 pm
Machine Learning-based weather models have the potential to revolutionise global seasonal forecasting, according to Met Office-led research.
News: NOAA and partners deploy mini ocean robots to collect hurricane data
By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Sep 08, 2025 02:11 pm
The 4-foot-long robots aim to deliver low-cost data for research and forecasting.
News: Minecraft: Power Grid Hero
By Atlantic Council on Sep 08, 2025 02:00 pm
Power Grid Hero is a Minecraft game mode that puts you in charge of supplying power for a growing community.
News: Do you communicate about risks? Test out our Risk know-how workbook
By Risk Know-How on Sep 08, 2025 01:55 pm
Risk know-how has developed a short workbook aimed at risk information providers to support them in communicating with a given audience and consider their needs. Provide your feedback today!
News: Minecraft: Heat wave survival
By Atlantic Council on Sep 08, 2025 01:55 pm
In Minecraft: Heat Wave Survival, players learn how to protect their village from the notorious Heat Dragon. The dragon is a visual representation of heat, helping students around the world understand that extreme heat is a clear and present danger.
News: From floods to resilience: How the gap fund is helping Cambodia build greener cities
By World Bank, the on Sep 08, 2025 01:17 pm
Early-stage support from the City Climate Finance Gap Fund is paving the way for Phnom Penh and other Cambodian cities to become more sustainable and resilient.
News: Call for submissions: The Global Radio for Resilience Initiative
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Sep 08, 2025 09:56 am
UNDRR’s Global Radio for Resilience Initiative invites case studies showcasing how radio supports disaster resilience. Submit by 1 Nov 2025.
News: Building Resilience in Nepal, One Community at a Time
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for Asia and Pacific on Sep 08, 2025 09:28 am
Nestled in the hills of eastern Nepal, Suryodaya Municipality is making waves as a model for disaster resilience. The municipality has embraced the Ten Essentials for Making Cities Resilient, transforming these guidelines into tangible, local action.
News: Building Resilience Through Youth Innovation and Local Wisdom in Thailand
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for Asia and Pacific on Sep 08, 2025 09:06 am
Mahasarakham Municipality and University in Thailand’s Northeast are showing how local governments can build urban resilience – by engaging communities, embracing creativity and drawing on local knowledge.
News: Hunting the heat: four innovative ways to map urban heat
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Sep 08, 2025 08:42 am
Mapping and tracking heat stress – not just across cities, but street by street – is essential to inform early warning systems, urban planning, and public health interventions.
News: Pacific Prepared Podcast: Fijian village head shares the positive impacts mangrove planting has had on their community
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Sep 05, 2025 11:32 pm
This podcast episode highlights how thick coastal mangrove coverage in a Fijian village has helped to lessen damage from tsunamis and erosion due to rising sea levels.
News: The 1995 Chicago heat wave killed hundreds. A new tool aims to prevent the next tragedy.
By Yale Climate Connections on Sep 05, 2025 11:26 pm
This summer 2025 was the 30th anniversary of the deadliest weather event in Chicago’s history. Daniel Horton of NU coleads the Defusing Disasters Working Group, a team formed to help make sure that something similar never happens again.
News: New method helps regions prioritise climate risks
By Deltares on Sep 05, 2025 11:20 pm
Researchers present an innovative method that helps to better understand and prioritise climate risks at the regional level.
News: AI model reveals hidden earthquake swarms and faults in Italy’s Campi Flegrei
By Stanford University on Sep 05, 2025 11:12 pm
A new AI model detects thousands of previously unseen earthquakes in near real time, helping scientists understand changes in an Italian volcanic area where earthquakes have been intensifying since 2018.
News: New method to pinpoint soil erosion could help protect waterways
By Cranfield University on Sep 05, 2025 11:03 pm
Cranfield University experts have developed a new method to precisely identify soil erosion hotspots along waterways, allowing for pre-emptive mitigation measures to be put in place that protect land and water systems.
News: Waterlogged and contaminated: In rural Florida, locals suspect a mining company is to blame for their flooding troubles
By Grist Magazine on Sep 05, 2025 10:56 pm
A community in Florida believes the 2017 Hurricane Irma shouldn’t have affected them. Instead, they suspect another culprit: the Chemours mining complex, which sprawls across three counties some 50 miles upstream.
News: Your home has a 1 in 4 chance of being at severe risk from extreme weather
By Grist Magazine on Sep 05, 2025 10:49 pm
Extreme weather disasters — made larger, longer, and more intense by climate change — are taking an heavier toll on the possession that many Americans consider to be their most important asset: the home.
News: UH researchers call for new standards for building in coastal flood zones
By University of Hawai’i on Sep 05, 2025 10:36 pm
A study reveals a wide variety of approaches across the U.S. for establishing building elevation guidelines that account for future sea level rise, highlighting a need for more standardized methods.
News: 2025 Realtor.com housing and climate risk report
By Move.org on Sep 05, 2025 10:21 pm
Understanding climate risk in the housing market is essential, as these challenges not only affect residential safety but also influence property values, insurance costs, and overall market stability.
News: Insurers have detailed data on your home’s flood risk. So, why don’t you?
By Conversation Media Group, the on Sep 05, 2025 01:32 pm
Buying a house is one of the most high-stakes decisions many people will make in their lives. Yet many households are investing millions without an adequate understanding of a property’s exposure to growing climate risks.
News: Study finds extreme weather changes who migrates, not just how many
By Stanford University on Sep 05, 2025 01:31 pm
A new global study finds that extreme weather may trap many populations in place even as it increases migrations of other groups. The analysis shows that age and education strongly shape who migrates in response to severe heat, cold, floods, and droughts.
News: Tiny glacial lakes in the Himalayas pose unexpected flooding threats
By Dialogue Earth on Sep 05, 2025 01:31 pm
Fast-forming and difficult to detect, small glacial lakes are turning out to be more hazardous than scientists had predicted.
News: “Major floods and droughts every 15 years”… AI forecasts a crisis
By Pohang University of Science and Technology on Sep 04, 2025 08:44 pm
Using a cutting-edge AI model, research predicts that Pakistan will face unprecedented “super floods” and “extreme droughts” on a periodic basis.
News: NOAA’s transformative Flood Inundation Mapping expands to 60% of U.S.
By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Sep 04, 2025 08:38 pm
NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) announced that the groundbreaking experimental Flood Inundation Mapping (FIM) tool has expanded significantly to serve 60% of the U.S. population, up from 30% the previous year.
News: Lessons from indigenous emergency response in Canada
By Domestic Preparedness on Sep 04, 2025 08:29 pm
Recognizing and respecting the deep-rooted connections Indigenous peoples have to their land is essential for building culturally aware emergency plans that genuinely serve their communities.
News: People experiencing homelessness often have nowhere to retreat from the heat
By Yale Climate Connections on Sep 04, 2025 08:26 pm
During heat waves, people experiencing homelessness are in great danger. Without shelter, they’re more likely to die from heat-related illnesses than the general public.
News: Too hot to learn: Why school heat is a growing problem
By Dialogue Earth on Sep 04, 2025 08:15 pm
Across the world, climate change is making it too hot to learn. Teachers are increasingly trying to educate students in dangerously hot classrooms, often in old school buildings built to withstand cold weather rather than heat.
News: Extreme fire weather conditions in Spain and Portugal now common due to climate change
By World Weather Attribution on Sep 04, 2025 08:09 pm
As of 1st September, around 380,000 hectares (ha) have burned across Spain since the start of the year, according to the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS).
News: The next generation of wildfire risk models must account for the built environment
By Headwaters Economics on Sep 04, 2025 05:44 pm
As wildfire risks have transitioned from the forests and grasslands into communities, so must our models. The complexity of integrating building materials, housing density, fuel continuity between structures, and neighborhood layouts presents a challenge.
News: Navigating the human impact of disasters: Introducing a new climate toolkit
By World Bank, the on Sep 04, 2025 05:41 pm
The World Bank has developed the Climate Effects Navigator Toolkit (CLIENT), a new interactive platform that helps policy makers, researchers, and World Bank teams analyze how weather shocks affect people and infrastructure.
News: From flood maps to mind maps: Participatory systems modelling of floods in Limbe, Cameroon
By Climate and Development Knowledge Network on Sep 04, 2025 05:40 pm
In Limbe, Cameroon, flooding is not just caused by heavy rainfall. Rather from a complex interplay of land-use decisions, poor waste management, weak governance and a lack of infrastructure. Tackling this requires a systems‑thinking approach.
News: Hurricane season reflections: How business engagement is shaping a safer future for Mexico’s Pacific coast
By Connecting Business initiative on Sep 03, 2025 06:10 pm
Over the past three years, Mexico’s Pacific coast has become an example of how climate change intensifies disasters — and how vulnerabilities related to social infrastructure can amplify their toll. But as the risks intensify, so does the response.
News: A milestone for private sector engagement in disaster risk management in Fiji: Inclusion in the National Disaster Risk Management Act
By Connecting Business initiative on Sep 03, 2025 06:10 pm
The Fiji Business Disaster Resilience Council (FBDRC) has worked diligently to engage the private sector in Fiji’s disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts.
News: How drones and AI are changing the way wildfires are fought
By Grist Magazine on Sep 03, 2025 06:09 pm
As the threat of wildfires intensifies, modern technology is playing an increasingly large role in both research and management. But not all communities have access to it.
News: What is disaster clustering – and why does it matter for the economy?
By Liberty Street Economics (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) on Sep 03, 2025 05:53 pm
The way in which overlapping natural hazard systems interact is a major area of study in environmental science but has received comparatively little attention in the economics literature.
News: The top hot spots in Tokyo: revealing the impact of climate change through data fusion
By University of Tokyo 東京大学 on Sep 03, 2025 05:52 pm
Researchers led by Associate Professor Hideki Kikumoto at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo have developed a new method to fuse climate analysis datasets with weather observations.
News: Inside a Georgia beach’s high-tech fight against erosion
By Grist Magazine on Sep 03, 2025 03:50 pm
Armed with drones and lasers, scientists are creating detailed 3D maps of Tybee Island’s shifting shoreline.
News: Cities face double trouble: extreme heat and air pollution cause increasing compound weather events
By University of Oklahoma on Sep 03, 2025 03:37 pm
Research from the University of Oklahoma reveals that “compound events” — periods when heat wave conditions coincide with high air pollution levels — are becoming more frequent and intense in urban areas across the United States.
News: PolyU researchers use novel satellite laser ranging technique to reveal accelerated global average sea-level rise with 90 mm surge over past 30 years
By Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Sep 03, 2025 03:29 pm
PolyU researchers have utilised advanced space geodetic technologies to deliver the first precise 30-year record of global ocean mass change (also known as barystatic sea level), revealing its dominant role in driving global mean sea level rise.
News: Tokyo uses AI to warn residents to prepare for the worst with simulation of Mount Fuji erupting
By Euronews on Sep 03, 2025 03:24 pm
The AI-generated video released by Japanese officials for Volcanic Disaster Preparedness Day in Japan shows a simulation of a potential violent eruption of the active volcano.
News: Key facts about the long-term impacts of extreme weather and disasters
By Stanford University on Sep 02, 2025 01:33 pm
How do extreme weather events and disasters affect communities long term? Solomon Hsiang discusses the impacts on economic growth and health, and how research can improve emergency management and mitigation strategies.
News: Why was the Afghanistan earthquake so deadly? A disaster resilience expert explains
By Conversation Media Group, the on Sep 02, 2025 01:29 pm
The death toll following the recent earthquake in Afghanistan continues to rise. Taliban-led health authorities now say at least 800 people have been killed and 2,000 injured.
News: Warming temperatures affect glaciers’ ability to store meltwater, contributing to rising sea levels
By Conversation Media Group, the on Sep 02, 2025 01:28 pm
In higher elevations, firn, frozen water that is something between snow and ice, covers the top of glaciers. Firn plays a critical role in regulating glacial meltwater and sea level rise.
News: The ‘frying pan of Spain’ shows how cities can deal with extreme heat
By CBC/Radio-Canada on Sep 02, 2025 12:51 pm
Seville has adopted several water-based solutions to reducing urban temperatures.
News: No resilience without trust – An interview with Janise Rodgers and Mary Antonette Beroya-Eitner from GeoHazards International
By European Geosciences Union on Sep 02, 2025 12:35 pm
This blog shares DRR practitioners’ findings with the wider natural hazard science community to provoke discussion about how researchers and practitioners can strengthen their engagement in DRR.
News: If a resilient city had a face: it might look like Kagoshima
By European Geosciences Union on Sep 02, 2025 12:18 pm
In Kagoshima, exposure is not just about those red-coloured zones on a risk map – it is a way of life; it is waking up to ashfall, carrying an umbrella for volcanic dust, and regularly hearing eruption alerts on your phone.