In the 07/01/2025 edition:
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News: Bracing for the new normal
By The Kathmandu Post on Jun 30, 2025 01:34 pm
Dealing with disasters is not just about flood and landslide mitigation but should encompass planning and strategies for future risk across all development activities.
News: Study reveals uneven land sinking across New Orleans, raising flood-risk concerns
By PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd on Jun 30, 2025 01:29 pm
A new study suggests that sections of the parts of New Orleans and its surrounding wetlands region’s $15 billion post-Katrina flood protection system may need regular upgrades to outpace long-term land subsidence.
News: Enabling resilient MSMEs for a resilient nation: Initiatives from Indonesia and Mexico
By Connecting Business initiative on Jun 30, 2025 01:19 pm
Building on the “Resilience in a Box” platform are launching a “Resilience Route” to provide step by step support to 200 MSMEs.
News: It’s not just the cities. Extreme heat is a growing threat to rural America.
By Grist Magazine on Jun 30, 2025 01:09 pm
The urban heat island sits in a rural heat ocean.
News: A year after Helene, river guides in Appalachia are navigating a new world
By Grist Magazine on Jun 30, 2025 12:45 pm
Helene’s disruption of the rafting industry underscores how climate change — and the extreme weather it brings — threatens tourism-dependent economies.
News: Winter jet stream was erratic before climate change
By Dartmouth College on Jun 27, 2025 02:43 pm
A Dartmouth study challenges the idea that climate change is behind the erratic wintertime behavior of the polar jet stream, the massive current of Arctic air that regulates weather for much of the Northern Hemisphere.
News: Study shows controlled burns can reduce wildfire intensity and smoke pollution
By Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment on Jun 27, 2025 02:24 pm
A new Stanford-led study finds that controlled, low-intensity fires known as prescribed burns can slash wildfire intensity and dangerous smoke pollution across the western United States.
News: Scientists capture slow-motion earthquake in action
By The University of Texas at Austin on Jun 27, 2025 01:39 pm
Scientists for the first time have detected a slow slip earthquake in motion during the act of releasing tectonic pressure on a major fault zone at the bottom of the ocean.
News: Continuity planning empowers businesses to adapt, recover, and thrive
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Jun 27, 2025 12:34 pm
Businesses often struggle to recover from extreme weather events and natural hazards because they are not ready. A business continuity plan outlines what is needed for a business to continue operating or resume operations after a disruption.
News: One bad rainstorm away from disaster: why proposed changes to forestry rules won’t solve the ‘slash’ problem
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jun 27, 2025 12:11 pm
The biggest environmental problems for commercial plantation forestry in New Zealand’s steep hill country are discharges of slash (woody debris left behind after logging) and sediment from clear-fell harvests.
News: Breaking the chain of destruction: Building resilience by preparing for cascading hazards
By University of Michigan on Jun 27, 2025 12:07 pm
U-M is helping lead a collaboration to better forecast the chain reactions of downstream damages caused by wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes and more.
News: The drought in southern Australia is not over – it just looks that way
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jun 27, 2025 11:59 am
Further reductions in southern growing season rainfall are expected by the end of this century, especially in southwestern Australia. Southeastern regions also show a consistent drying trend, with a greater time spent in drought every decade.
News: Natural hazards don’t disappear when the storm ends or the earthquake stops – they evolve
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jun 27, 2025 11:43 am
Hurricane Helene lasted only a few days in September 2024, but it altered the landscape of the Southeastern U.S. in profound ways that will affect the hazards local residents face far into the future.
News: How to cool communities in the face of rising heat
By University of British Columbia on Jun 27, 2025 11:35 am
With heatwaves hitting Canada harder and more often, there’s a need to rethink how we design homes and neighbourhoods. Speaking with three UBC experts, they explain how smarter design and nature-based solutions can keep Canadians cool, safe and healthy .
DRR Community Voices: When the warnings don’t work, but the Wi-Fi does: How communities are rewriting the future of climate response
By Nashin Mahtani on Jun 27, 2025 11:23 am
While global efforts have poured resources into improving forecasting and modelling, a critical question remains: What use is a forecast if it is not trusted or relevant?
News: Small businesses have everything to lose from disasters, and everything to offer in building resilience
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Jun 27, 2025 08:53 am
On Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSME) Day, SRSG Kamal Kishore suggests a five-point agenda reflecting the lived reality of small businesses to boost the resilience of MSMEs in the face of disaster risk.
News: When rain, snow, and soil align: The triple threat behind 2024’s deadly Central Asian floods
By Chinese Academy of Sciences on Jun 26, 2025 05:16 pm
The record-breaking flood underscores a looming crisis for mid-high latitude regions as climate change amplifies compound disasters.
News: Study warns of accelerating climate threat: “Precipitation whiplashes” could strike as early as 2028
By The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on Jun 26, 2025 05:07 pm
A recent study reveals a looming climate crisis: the world could face heightened risks of “precipitation whiplashes” – violent swings between extreme droughts and floods
DRR Community Voices: Changing the principles that guide how we assess and respond to systemic risks: Learning from pilots
By Sarah Hendel-Blackford on Jun 26, 2025 10:59 am
What values do you apply in daily life that guide your actions? Whether implicit or explicit, many of us have a set of values, beliefs or principles for how we lead our lives.
News: Why SA’s excellent disaster management and legislation failed the Eastern Cape
By Daily Maverick on Jun 25, 2025 02:32 pm
South Africa has excellent disaster management legislation on paper, but a lack of capacity and a reactive “biscuits and blankets” approach create immense vulnerability, especially for those living in unsafe, marginal areas.
News: A century of seasonal forecast improvement for the Western Pacific Subtropical high driven by Indo-Pacific Ocean
By Chinese Academy of Sciences on Jun 25, 2025 01:59 pm
A team of climate scientists reveal how the ability to predict the WPSH has transformed over the past century. It has significantly improved since the 1960s and this is due to robust oceanic signals from the Indo-Pacific region.
News: In data: Europe’s wildfire challenge in charts
By Context on Jun 25, 2025 01:49 pm
Climate change and human activities turn the world’s fastest warming continent into a tinderbox, raising the risk of wildfires.
News: Once rare, heatwaves following hurricanes will become more common
By Princeton University on Jun 25, 2025 01:41 pm
Destructive hurricanes followed by deadly heatwaves will become far more common by the end of this century, new research from Princeton University shows.
News: How restoring river catchments can minimise drought and flood risks
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jun 25, 2025 01:33 pm
To avoid routine hosepipe bans, protect biodiversity and secure food and water supply into the future, land needs to be at the centre of the UK’s drought strategy. Restoring bogs, woodlands and soils is essential infrastructure in a changing climate.
News: India is using AI and satellites to map urban heat vulnerability down to the building level
By Wired, Condé Nast Digital on Jun 24, 2025 02:45 pm
Remote-sensing data and artificial intelligence are mapping the most heat-vulnerable buildings in cities like Delhi, in an effort to target relief from extreme temperatures at a granular level.
News: Indigenous women fill Bolivia’s frontlines fighting wildfires
By Context on Jun 24, 2025 02:36 pm
As many Indigenous communities in Bolivia have female chiefs, women are able to assume leadership role in fire management, and several crews consist entirely of women.
News: Little researched current impacting on winter sea ice in the Arctic
By Alfred Wegener Institut on Jun 24, 2025 02:30 pm
A research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute has for the first time gained insights into a current in the Barents Sea which affects Arctic sea ice
News: What ancient ice sheets can tell us about future sea level rise
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jun 24, 2025 02:23 pm
Searching for the source of these higher sea levels takes us to the poles. In a climate similar to today, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets retreated, raising global sea level. Although exactly where this ice was lost from remains a mystery.
News: U.K. Space weather prediction system goes operational
By Eos – AGU on Jun 24, 2025 09:40 am
Officials now have access to a suite of models they can use to head off damage to critical infrastructure.
News: Heat domes and flooding have nearly tripled since the ’50s
By University of Pennsylvania on Jun 24, 2025 09:36 am
The study finds that atmospheric patterns known to lock in extreme weather, like heat domes and flooding, have nearly tripled since the 1950s, and highlights a growing gap between real-world risks and what climate models currently capture.
News: Wildfires threaten water quality for years after they burn
By Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences on Jun 24, 2025 09:19 am
the study provides concrete numbers that give insight to water managers across the Western U.S. Researchers hope the results provide better direction on informing future planning efforts for increasing wildfire resilience.
News: Global warming is changing cloud patterns. That means more global warming
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jun 24, 2025 09:10 am
The areas covered by highly reflective clouds are shrinking. At the same time, the areas containing broken, less reflective clouds are growing. The net effect is that additional energy from sunlight is reaching Earth’s surface leading to extra heating.
News: Extreme heat and wildfire smoke is a risky combination, new study finds
By University of British Columbia on Jun 24, 2025 08:51 am
With wildfires blazing and temperature records being broken, many Canadians could be experiencing smoky air alongside soaring heat this summer — , the combined effects could be uniquely hazardous to human health.