In the 07/15/2025 edition:
Disaster risk management in Iran has become a national priority in 2025, as the country faces increasing threats from earthquakes, floods, and climate change-related events.
News: NOAA Global Systems Laboratory offers new storm surge alert tool
By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Jul 14, 2025 04:00 pm
Forecasters will be able to issue more precise, detailed watches and warnings.
News: Environment director warns of increasing climate-related risks in Switzerland
By swissinfo.ch – International Service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation on Jul 14, 2025 03:56 pm
The director of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) has warned of increasing climate-related risks in Switzerland in an interview with SonntagsBlick on Sunday.
News: Why it can be hard to warn people about dangers like floods – communication researchers explain the role of human behavior
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 14, 2025 03:51 pm
While there are sophisticated flood prediction models and different types of warning systems in some places, an understanding of how people receive, interpret and act on risk information and warnings is required.
News: Berg winds in South Africa: the winter weather pattern that increases wildfire risks
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 14, 2025 03:41 pm
Sheldon Strydom studies the relationship between weather and fire, in particular how Berg winds, also known as mountain flow events, are linked to periods of enhanced fire danger.
News: FEMA’s flood maps often miss dangerous flash flood risks, leaving homeowners unprepared
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 14, 2025 03:00 pm
Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is raising questions about the nation’s flood maps and their ability to ensure that communities and homeowners can prepare for rising risks.
News: How is earthquake-driven sea-level rise changing our coasts?
By European Geosciences Union on Jul 14, 2025 02:54 pm
Earthquakes can alter coastlines in ways that we’re still trying to understand, and it’s clear that tectonically active areas are the most affected. One key factor in these changes is Vertical Land Motion, which directly impacts how sea levels behave
News: ‘Disasters are a human choice’: Texas counties have little power to stop building in flood-prone areas
By Grist Magazine on Jul 14, 2025 01:26 pm
Experts suggested that more data and education are needed as Texas and the rest of the country build in known flood plains.
News: Data policy for times of crisis facilitated by open science
By Committee on Data (International Science Council) on Jul 11, 2025 05:40 pm
This project develops guidance and tools for data policy in times of crisis facilitated by open science. It focuses on providing the following contributions to the UNESCO Open Science Toolkit.
News: New index ranks vulnerabilities of 188 nations to climate shocks
By Rockefeller Foundation, the on Jul 11, 2025 05:18 pm
The Columbia Climate School has unveiled a novel index that integrates countries’ vulnerabilities to cyclones, floods, droughts, earthquakes, conflicts, and other hazards with their ability to take prevention actions.
News: Collaboration is key to combating sand and dust storms
By UN Chronicle on Jul 11, 2025 05:14 pm
More than 80 per cent of the global dust budget emanates from the North African and Middle Eastern deserts but it is a truly international problem, affecting more than 150 countries and impacting about 330 million people worldwide.
News: Safer, climate-resilient roads set to improve lives of 13,000 people in Comoros
By World Bank, the on Jul 11, 2025 05:09 pm
Comoros is set to rehabilitate 12 kilometers of climate-resilient roads, restoring vital connectivity and strengthening disaster resilience for 13,000 people in one of the country’s most cyclone-affected regions.
News: Trump’s budget cuts are adding to risk in life-threatening floods and emergencies
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 11, 2025 05:02 pm
The authors suggests that wasting tax dollars is never a vote winner, but funding vital emergency services like Fema and the National Weather Service is a fundamental feature of an advanced democracy.
News: Stronger after the storm: Rebuilding lives, rebuilding Pakistan
By World Bank, the on Jul 11, 2025 04:52 pm
Immediately following the floods, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) supported the government of Pakistan to conduct a Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA).
News: Shifting cities: Mapping future climates
By Climate Central on Jul 11, 2025 04:47 pm
Summers have been heating up for decades and they’ll only get hotter if heat-trapping pollution continues — making future summers in Minneapolis feel more like current summers in Tulsa.
News: As wildfires spread to Europe’s cities, what can LA teach us?
By Context on Jul 11, 2025 04:28 pm
Europe’s expanding cities face increasing wildfire risk as climate change drives hotter summers: policy-makers need to prepare.
News: School’s out for summer: What does extreme heat do to children?
By Context on Jul 11, 2025 04:18 pm
What happens to a child’s body when they sit in class during a heatwave and what does this mean for their long-term health?
News: Heat waves put older persons at high risk, warns UN report
By United Nations Environment Programme on Jul 11, 2025 01:44 pm
As extreme heat grips many countries and becomes “the new normal”, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warns of heightened health risks for older persons in the Frontiers 2025 Report.
News: UA researchers develop more effective model for wildfire evacuation
By University of Alabama on Jul 11, 2025 01:32 pm
In a study funded by the National Science Foundation, researchers at the University of Alabama developed a new model designed to help communities, living at the intersection of forest and town, develop more effective wildfire evacuation plans.
News: Summer floods of July 2021 exposed the Meuse’s vulnerability
By Wageningen University and Research Centre on Jul 11, 2025 01:20 pm
Four years ago, summer floods in Limburg – in the south of the Netherlands – drastically altered the riverbed of the Meuse, making accurate high-water forecasts even more difficult than usual.
News: Japan wires the ocean with an earthquake-sensing ‘nervous system’
By Scientific American, a Division of Nature America, Inc. on Jul 10, 2025 04:38 pm
Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast detectors to gauge tsunami risks.
News: How a confluence of extreme weather, geography and timing created Texas’ flood disaster
By NBC News on Jul 10, 2025 04:34 pm
Texas leads the country in flood deaths. Steep hills, shallow soils and a fault zone have made Hill Country, also called “flash flood alley,” one of the state’s most dangerous regions.
News: My city was one of hundreds expecting federal funds to help manage rising heat wave risk – then EPA terminated the grants
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 10, 2025 04:30 pm
A community in the US was excited when it was awarded a US$19.9 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. Less than a year later, the Trump administration abruptly terminated the funding.
News: Drought is draining water supplies and driving up food costs where you’d least expect
By Grist Magazine on Jul 10, 2025 03:41 pm
According to a report by NDMC and UNCCD, the combined effects of global warming, drought, and El Niño have triggered similar crises all over the world, from Mexico City to the Mekong Delta.
News: Where do giant volcanic eruptions come from? New study finds missing link to ‘blobs’ deep within Earth
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jul 10, 2025 03:23 pm
In a study published in Communications Earth and Environment, researchers show that columns of hot rock, which rise some 3,000 kilometres through Earth’s mantle and cause giant eruptions, are connected to continent-sized source regions they call BLOBS.
News: Help shape the future of inclusive disaster risk reduction and climate action for assistive technology users
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Jul 10, 2025 03:07 pm
UNDRR, in partnership with ATscale, has led a global study on inclusive disaster risk reduction and climate action for AT users. The findings have informed the development of a draft policy brief, now available for public consultation.
News: Duration of heat waves accelerating faster than global warming
By University of California, Los Angeles on Jul 09, 2025 05:06 pm
New research finds that not only will climate change make heat waves hotter and longer, but the lengthening of heat waves will accelerate with each additional fraction of a degree of warming.
News: Philippines: How prepared are we really for disasters?
By The LaSallian on Jul 09, 2025 04:52 pm
Investments poured into local disaster preparedness continuously miss during disasters themselves, casting doubt on the country’s readiness for them.
News: Analysis of geomagnetic storm shows need for mitigation during ionospheric disruptions
By Global Platform for Sustainable Cities (GPSC) on Jul 09, 2025 02:17 pm
During the geomagnetic storm that took place May 10–11, 2024, GPS users reported significant positioning errors and outages.
News: Philippines struggles to green schools amid climate risks
By Context on Jul 09, 2025 02:09 pm
The Philippines struggles to tackle education gaps as climate risks, such as heatwaves and storms, rise.
News: This Texas county asked for disaster resilience help. The flood came first.
By Grist Magazine on Jul 09, 2025 02:05 pm
County records show that some Kerr County (USA) officials did see the floods coming and raised concerns about the county’s outdated flood warning system nearly a decade ago.
News: KADIN Indonesia introduces the business neighborhood resilience framework to strengthen disaster readiness
By Connecting Business initiative on Jul 09, 2025 01:40 pm
The business neighborhood resilience framework (BNRF) is a practical tool to help businesses across Indonesia, especially MSMEs, prepare for and recover from the impact of disasters.
News: Melting glaciers could trigger more explosive eruptions globally
By Goldschmidt Conference on Jul 09, 2025 01:34 pm
Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, according to research on six volcanoes in the Chilean Andes.
News: How lakes connect to groundwater critical for resilience to climate change, research finds
By Goldschmidt Conference on Jul 09, 2025 01:28 pm
Understanding whether lakes are fed predominantly by groundwater or rainwater is critical to managing our water resources in the face of droughts and shortages, new research has found.
News: How Germany’s 2021 floods could have been even worse
By University of Reading on Jul 09, 2025 01:18 pm
The devastating floods that killed nearly 200 people in Germany four years ago this month could have been even more damaging, new research suggests.
News: Rain events could cause major failure of Waikīkī storm drainage by 2050
By University of Hawai’i at Manoa on Jul 09, 2025 01:14 pm
Researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa discovered that by 2050, large rain events combined with sea level rise could cause flooding severe enough to disrupt transportation and contaminate stormwater inlets across 70% of Waikīkī on Oahu, Ha
News: Resilience in practice: Leading Europe’s shift towards systemic climate adaptation
By Climate-KIC, European Institute of Innovation and Technology on Jul 09, 2025 12:49 pm
Solutions that are inspired and supported by nature, which are cost-effective, simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits and help build resilience.
News: Cuts to NOAA increase the risk of deadly weather tragedies
By Yale Climate Connections on Jul 08, 2025 10:21 pm
The Trump administration’s budget plan for 2026 would eliminate the lab that developed a key flash flooding tool.
News: Solar cycles and Canadian climate: what you need to know
By University of Ottawa on Jul 08, 2025 10:11 pm
Solar Maximum 2025 is the expected peak of solar activity in Solar Cycle 25, characterized by heightened sunspots, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections. This peak is anticipated around mid to late 2025, coinciding with the Sun’s magnetic field flip.
News: Peak flows in India’s Ganges river basin plummeting
By Science and Development Network on Jul 08, 2025 10:03 pm
Peak water flows in parts of India’s largest river basin have been falling by over a sixth every decade, according to a study which highlighted a similar trend across the country, impacting on irrigation domestic water and hydropower.
News: Atlanta is embracing a cheap, effective way to beat urban heat: ‘cool roofs’
By Grist Magazine on Jul 08, 2025 09:59 pm
Last month, Atlanta joined a growing number of American cities requiring that new roofs be more reflective. That significantly reduces temperatures not just in a building, but in the surrounding urban environment.
News: Burned out: How privatised risk is failing victims of climate disasters
By Down To Earth on Jul 08, 2025 09:50 pm
According to the author privatising climate risks may backfire as people may resent bearing the costs of the collective failure to address the climate crisis. And privatising these risks spells trouble for public entities.
News: UN disaster chief urges integrating risk reduction in development finance
By Devex on Jul 08, 2025 09:45 pm
In an interview with Devex, Kamal Kishore says crisis-response funding isn’t enough — resilience and risk reduction need to underpin all development finance.
News: Texas floods: How geography, climate and policy failures collided
By Raidió Teilifís Éireann on Jul 08, 2025 09:41 pm
The Texas flash floods this weekend that left more than 100 people dead, including many children, offer a stark illustration. This article explores the intertwined forces that amplified this storm’s impact.
News: Heavy rain in Texas floods intensified by human-driven climate change: study
By Earth.org on Jul 08, 2025 09:40 pm
ClimaMeter found that similar meteorological conditions in Texas, specifically in the Hill Country between San Antonio and Austin, are now up to 2 mm/day wetter and 1.5C warmer than they were in the past.
News: Study reveals increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica
By University of Liverpool on Jul 08, 2025 09:28 pm
Research involving the University of Liverpool has discovered a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica.
News: The science behind Texas’ catastrophic floods
By Grist Magazine on Jul 08, 2025 04:38 pm
It will take some time for scientists to do proper “attribution” studies here, to say for instance how much extra rain they can blame on climate change. But generally speaking, this disaster has climate change’s marks all over it.
News: Guinea: Community comes together to reduce disease and disaster risks
By International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) on Jul 08, 2025 04:24 pm
Through the Community Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness Programme (CP3), volunteers led the community through a participatory risk assessment to understand the problem, discuss the community’s needs and resources, and come up with a workable solution.
News: Scientists warn of urgent need to tackle changes impacting river deltas
By University of Southampton, the on Jul 08, 2025 04:13 pm
New research from a Southampton scientist has identified the causes of changes affecting river deltas around the world – warning of an urgent need to tackle them through climate adaptation.