In the 09/22/2026 edition:
News: Nepal isn’t the only disaster‑struck country waiting for money from the global climate Loss and Damage Fund
By Conversation Media Group, the on Sep 21, 2026 04:54 pm
As it faces the enormous task of rebuilding from a deadly flood that tore through communities in the Himalayas, Nepal is seeking compensation from the international Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage.
News: A repeat of Miami’s 1926 hurricane could cost over $280 billion. That’s more than Hurricane Katrina
By Yale Climate Connections on Sep 21, 2026 04:51 pm
A repeat of the 1926 Great Miami Hurricane could cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. Population growth, increased exposure and climate change have heightened risks, with potential impacts on insurance, real estate and financial markets.
News: Learning from Europe’s recent flood disasters: Towards more resilient governance
By Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) on Sep 21, 2026 04:42 pm
The analysis points towards a common governance roadmap. It suggests better integration of flood‑risk information into urban planning, stronger and more actionable warning systems, more resilient critical infrastructure, and greater cooperation.
News: Driving through water is the biggest cause of death during floods – here’s how it can happen
By Conversation Media Group, the on Sep 21, 2026 04:33 pm
Many drivers expect the worst that can happen is their car might be damaged. But driving through floodwater can lead to drowning due to the car floating and being carried downstream.
News: When disaster crosses borders, Indonesia’s credibility is tested twice
By Conversation Media Group, the on Sep 21, 2026 04:20 pm
On September 15, the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau sent volcanic ash up to 15,000 metres and produced rumbling heard 700 kilometres away. Eight airports suspended operations and thousands of flights were disrupted.
News: Nepal to use new flood study to claim millions from UN climate disaster fund
By British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on Sep 21, 2026 04:09 pm
Nepal plans to use a new study linking climate change to the deadly floods last month as the basis of a financial request from a United Nations fund.
News: At least seven months of relentless rain needed to end drought, research shows
By British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on Sep 21, 2026 03:15 pm
Above-average rainfall is needed across England for the next seven months for all areas to recover from drought by spring 2027, according to research.
News: Earthquake warning: the seconds that could save your life
By The Alerting Authority on Sep 21, 2026 02:47 pm
Jeannette Sutton and Eddie Bertola break down USGS ShakeAlert, earthquake early warnings, Wireless Emergency Alerts, and the technology that can warn people before strong shaking arrives.
DRR Community Voices: Putting young people at the heart of resilience: European Parliament Intergroup supports “Are You Ready?” Campaign
By Antonia Vignolo, ROECA on Sep 18, 2026 07:14 pm
Strasbourg, September 2026 – As schools reopen across Europe, Members of the European Parliament are helping put young people at the heart of efforts to build safer, more resilient communities through their support for UNDRR’s “Are You Ready?” cam
News: Earth’s atmosphere is getting less dusty. That could be adding to global warming
By University of California, Los Angeles on Sep 18, 2026 05:23 pm
Because atmospheric dust overall has a slight cooling effect on the climate, researchers say its decrease may have contributed modestly to recent climate warming.
News: OS maps, the backbone of Britain’s climate adaptation planning
By Climate Adaptation Platform (CAP) on Sep 18, 2026 04:56 pm
The Ordnance Survey (OS) map produced by the British and Irish governments was originally used for military defence and later for outdoor recreation.
News: The push to get polluters to pay for Nepal’s floods
By National Geographic Society on Sep 18, 2026 04:31 pm
The tiny country contributes less than 0.1 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions—but is experiencing the consequences of climate change firsthand.
News: Nepal cannot stop the floods. It can stop them from becoming disasters.
By Time Magazine Inc. on Sep 18, 2026 04:31 pm
The interplay of water, infrastructure, and danger drives home the central lesson of disaster risk reduction: there is no such thing as a ‘natural’ disaster. A natural hazard becomes a disaster only when people are placed in its path.
News: From the Sula Valley: What the frontline teaches us about disaster preparedness
By Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR) on Sep 18, 2026 04:29 pm
A new regional platform launched in Honduras is gathering lessons on disaster preparedness, evacuation and risk management in vulnerable communities across the Northern Triangle, helping strengthen evidence-based, people-centred resilience efforts.
News: Temperature measurement error may cause climate-impact studies to understate impacts by 15% or more
By Wake Forest University on Sep 18, 2026 04:29 pm
Study reveals a hidden problem: Temperature proxies used in many climate-impact studies can contain substantial measurement error, leading to misestimation of true impacts of temperature and, potentially understate climate impacts by at least 15%.
News: Juneau can’t stop the floods, but it’s learning to see them coming
By Grist Magazine on Sep 18, 2026 04:29 pm
Recurrent floods have forced Juneau to confront a problem that communities around the world are increasingly facing: How do you prepare for a natural disaster when you know it will come back?
News: Track US states’ new wildfire laws for utilities with this interactive map
By Wildfire Today on Sep 18, 2026 01:57 pm
Hawaii’s Lahaina Fire killed over 100 people and destroyed thousands of buildings. California’s Eaton Fire triggered the evacuation of over 100,000 residents. Texas’ Smokehouse Creek Fire burned over one million acres.
News: Albania strengthens capacities for disaster loss and damage data through DELTA Resilience training
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia on Sep 18, 2026 01:24 pm
Albania is strengthening its capacities to collect, manage, analyse and use disaster loss and damage data through the DELTA Resilience platform, with a technical training held in Tirana on 17 September 2026.
News: Research team studies data from 2025 floods to prepare for future catastrophic rainfall events
By The University of Texas at San Antonio on Sep 17, 2026 09:15 pm
The devastating floods that swept through San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country in 2025 left researchers with an urgent question: What can be learned from these events to better prepare communities for the next catastrophic flood?
News: Rapid warming in the Himalaya exacerbates geohazard cascades beyond adaptation limits
By World Weather Attribution on Sep 17, 2026 05:19 pm
Evidence shows the seismic signal was caused not by an earthquake but by the rapid collapse of about 2 km² of rock and glacier ice. The mass fell roughly 1,400 m, releasing enormous energy and generating earthquake-like seismic waves.
News: IRDR webinar examines transboundary disaster risk reduction in wake of China-Nepal flash flood
By Integrated Research on Disaster Risk on Sep 17, 2026 04:37 pm
An IRDR-UNDRR webinar examined the 26 August 2026 China-Nepal flash flood, highlighting cascading transboundary risks, monitoring and data-sharing gaps, and calling for a Himalayan Monitoring Centre, FORIN study, and stronger multi-hazard risk assessment.
News: NZ’s new emergency management law sets the rules. Trust and connection are key to it working
By Conversation Media Group, the on Sep 17, 2026 03:18 pm
Following a series of major disasters and inquiries that questioned New Zealand’s capacity to deal with them, the new Emergency Management Act 2026 is the most significant improvement in more than two decades.
News: Britain’s most artificial landscape may not survive climate change
By Conversation Media Group, the on Sep 17, 2026 03:10 pm
Stretching across much of eastern England, the Fens produce a third of the country’s vegetables and support tens of thousands of jobs. Yet around 33% of the region lies below average sea level, while 87% is below the highest spring tides
News: Recent water trends have serious future implications
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Sep 17, 2026 02:39 pm
The WMO State of Global Water Resources report is a comprehensive science-based annual assessment of the hydrological cycle and extreme events in 2025 and over the past five years.
News: Breaking the ‘research aristocracy’: why climate resilience must be co-produced
By International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) on Sep 17, 2026 02:05 pm
The greatest disconnect of the academic approach is finance. High-level adaptation funds expect neat, multi-year bankable assets. But for a household in an informal settlement, the financial reality is to enable an annual refurbishment cycle.
News: Lumpy skin disease returns to J&K: Central Kashmir reports fresh cases, Jammu’s livestock belt on alert
By The Chenab Times on Sep 17, 2026 10:00 am
Four years after Jammu and Kashmir witnessed its first major outbreak of LSD, it has resurfaced in the Union Territory, with fresh cases reported from Central Kashmir and authorities stepping up surveillance, vaccination, and veterinary intervention.
News: EU to launch climate insurance scheme after summer of extreme weather
By Thomson Reuters on Sep 17, 2026 08:45 am
The EU will launch a climate insurance alliance to increase coverage for extreme weather losses, while advancing climate resilience, heatwave early warning systems and drought risk management after a summer marked by wildfires, heatwaves and drought.
News: Over half of adults worry about a disaster, but cost keeps them from preparing
By United Way on Sep 16, 2026 05:15 pm
United We Prepare®, a disaster preparedness initiative by United Way Worldwide, supported by Verizon, is helping to make preparedness easier, less costly, and more accessible. It provides tools and information, to prepare for disasters.
News: A new approach to showing when and where wildfire smoke carries toxic metals
By Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University on Sep 16, 2026 05:13 pm
Wildfires can turn natural metals in soil into toxic, airborne particles. Stanford researchers are working to predict where these metals travel and warn people in harm’s way.
News: 10 ways climate-change-altered hurricanes may come to bite us
By Yale Climate Connections on Sep 16, 2026 05:13 pm
What happens if sea level rise, hurricane wind strength, or other factors turn out worse than expected? The author gives about a 90% chance that climate change will cause a net increase in Atlantic hurricane destruction over the coming 30 years.
News: Flood survivors face water shortages, disease risk in crowded holding centres
By The Kathmandu Post on Sep 16, 2026 05:13 pm
More than 3,600 people are staying in 37 holding centres across Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading districts. No major outbreak has been reported, but cases of colds, coughs and viral fever are common.
DRR Community Voices: Protection of persons in the event of disasters: A treaty to protect people before or after disaster strikes?
By Tanjir Hossain on Sep 16, 2026 03:54 pm
The author raises a fundamental question: what do States actually owe people before, during and after disasters, and how should those obligations be reflected in international law? And, if protection begins only once disaster strikes, it begins too late.
News: From protection gap to insurability: Building Africa’s next generation of resilience
By Insurance Development Forum on Sep 16, 2026 01:31 pm
The opportunity before Africa is therefore larger than closing a protection gap. It is about creating the conditions that allow millions more people, businesses and public assets to become insurable.
News: Syria advances towards a national multi-hazard early warning system
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Sep 16, 2026 10:32 am
Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic | 15–16 September 2026, Two-day national workshop
News: UNESCO warns there’s close to a 100% chance of a Mediterranean tsunami
By ScienceDaily on Sep 16, 2026 10:22 am
The Mediterranean may seem far removed from the world’s major tsunami zones, but history and modern modeling show that destructive waves can strike the French Riviera with surprisingly little warning.
News: The goat-cow is Spain’s wildfire-fighting secret weapon
By Reasons to be Cheerful on Sep 16, 2026 10:16 am
Small, nimble cows are being deployed in Galicia to lower wildfire risk by doing what they do best: eating.
News: What the Nepal disaster teaches us about cascading hazards, compound risk and ‘blue-sky’ flooding
By Moody’s on Sep 16, 2026 10:03 am
The floods in Nepal in late August 2026 were not a conventional rainfall-driven event, but a chain reaction in which slope failure, ice, rock, water, sediment, and river geometry combined to turn a remote mountain disturbance into a far-reaching disaster.
News: Art installation makes it easier to visualize sea level rise
By Yale Climate Connections on Sep 15, 2026 10:34 pm
A stone bench and pillar on Bainbridge Island in Washington State show how sea levels could change over the coming decades.
News: China releases research findings on glacier landslide in Nepal
By Vietnam.vn on Sep 15, 2026 05:08 pm
Researchers from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau expedition team identified the Aug. 26 glacier landslide in Nepal, which crossed into China, as one of the most extreme and destructive natural disasters ever recorded in the Himalayas.
News: Wildfire strategy doesn’t need a winner – with 3 camps fighting for dominance, the system can’t keep up with the risk
By Conversation Media Group, the on Sep 15, 2026 05:07 pm
The issue with how America deals with wildfires is thinking there is one primary strategy to end the wildfire crisis. But effective wildfire strategy in worsening fire seasons demands a system of actions – interconnected pieces that reinforce one anothe
News: Kids can help after a disaster
By Yale Climate Connections on Sep 15, 2026 05:06 pm
Peek says getting involved in age-appropriate ways can help kids process the disaster they experienced or witnessed, and it shows them the power they have to make a difference.
News: The Lesotho Red Cross Society acts ahead of an El Niño-driven drought
By Anticipation Hub on Sep 15, 2026 05:05 pm
With El Niño threatening to disrupt upcoming rainfall and agricultural seasons, the LRCS activated its EAP for drought and begin implementing anticipatory actions to support the most vulnerable households. Heightened food insecurity is the main concern.
News: One Samoan resident explains how he thinks the 2009 tsunami helped to make locals better prepared for disasters in the future
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Sep 15, 2026 02:33 pm
Taking the small positives after a disaster in the Pacific, how one Samoan resident says the 2009 tsunami helped change people’s mind sets.
News: Britain’s railway prepares for more extreme weather as intense El Niño develops
By Guardian, the (UK) on Sep 15, 2026 02:11 pm
Britain’s railway system has already been under stress from extreme heat this summer, with several operators reducing timetables and train speeds.
News: This summer’s wildfire epidemic is one of the worst in decades – so why are deaths so low?
By Telegraph Media Group Limited on Sep 15, 2026 02:04 pm
As the risk of ‘fire weather’ increases, humans are learning to adapt to an ominous new normal
News: From PROCULTHER to PROCULTHER-4ALL: the UCPM initiative shaping a whole-of-society approach to cultural heritage protection
By PROCULTHER on Sep 15, 2026 01:56 pm
Cultural heritage protection has become an increasingly important component of European disaster risk management and civil protection.
News: Saving lives after Venezuela’s twin earthquake disaster
By Pacific Disaster Center on Sep 15, 2026 01:42 pm
The DisasterAWARE ecosystem was not introduced in the middle of a crisis—it was already part of the international operating environment that bridges communities. It has been exercised through continuous engagements.
News: Building Resilient Cities
By ASTM International on Sep 15, 2026 01:35 pm
The nature‑based solutions for urban heat are specifically designed for neighborhoods and communities because the standard will provide users with tools and techniques to identify areas where nature‑based solutions can be most effectively implemented.
News: How Kampala capital city – Uganda has intensified preparedness for the oncoming El Nino season
By Kampala Capital City Authority on Sep 15, 2026 01:23 pm
Kampala Capital City Authority has intensified flood preparedness across the city as Uganda braces for increased rainfall, with the Ministry of Water and Environment warning of a high likelihood of El Niño conditions during the Sept-Dec rainfall season.