In the 11/18/2025 edition:
News: Sinking cities: how China is moving subsidence research forward
By Springer Nature on Nov 17, 2025 03:36 pm
Faced with the double threat of rising sea levels and subsiding ground, researchers are devising plans to bring communities back from the brink.
News: Iran’s capital faces unprecedented water shortages and even possible evacuation. What changes could help?
By Conversation Media Group, the on Nov 17, 2025 03:23 pm
Major dams supplying drinking water to provinces with millions of residents are nearly empty, and groundwater reserves have been depleted. Many cities have endured an entire autumn without a single drop of rain.
News: The unequal storm: How natural hazards impact Māori communities
By Waatea News on Nov 17, 2025 02:25 pm
Māori communities – many of whom are located in coastal, rural, and geographically vulnerable areas – face disproportionate risks before, during, and after extreme weather events.
News: World’s first impact bond on weather and climate data opens for contributions
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Nov 17, 2025 02:14 pm
Pioneering finance instrument aimed to strengthen resilience and early warnings worldwide seeks initial capitalization of USD 200 million by the end of 2026.
News: Tripling the adaptation finance goal is possible — here’s what it takes
By World Resources Institute on Nov 17, 2025 02:14 pm
We explore here whether a tripling of the adaptation finance goal, to $120 billion, would be possible – and find that it could be by 2035, the target year for the $300 billion NCQG.
News: Climate adaptation needs satellite eyes
By European Space Agency on Nov 17, 2025 11:45 am
Satellite-based Earth observation can play a critical role in all stages of climate adaptation monitoring, as a comprehensive new study demonstrates.
News: Gender, development, and recognition of anthropogenic climate change
By Yale Program on Climate Change Communication on Nov 14, 2025 03:08 pm
Using survey data from a study of 103 countries and territories, this study investigates how gender, economic development, and democratic freedoms shape global understanding of the human causes of climate change.
News: Data in action: a decade of remote, rapid damage assessments
By World Bank, the on Nov 14, 2025 03:08 pm
The framework uses a combination of disaster risk modeling techniques, and analysis of historical and damage data, census and socioeconomic survey data, satellite imagery, and social media feeds to produce preliminary damage estimates.
News: Met Office: Ten years of naming UK storms to warn the public
By Carbon Brief on Nov 14, 2025 02:57 pm
This month marks 10 years since the UK recorded its first named storm. In the decade that has passed, storm naming has become a key part of how the Met Office warns the public about impending storms.
News: Painting hope: How Eswatini’s students cultivate drought resilience through art
By World Bank, the on Nov 14, 2025 02:57 pm
This performance, the flag, and other creative expressions—mosaic murals, conservation flags, and “seed bombs”—were all part of the Art Never Dries student workshops.
News: Coastal ocean acidification advancing faster than expected, threatening local economies
By PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd on Nov 14, 2025 02:53 pm
Research from the University of St Andrews has found that some coastal areas will become much more acidic than previously anticipated. With added atmospheric CO2, these areas are acidifying more quickly than thought.
News: Stronger before the storm: How Colombia built a system to withstand disaster
By World Bank, the on Nov 14, 2025 02:41 pm
Over two decades, Colombia has steadily strengthened its disaster risk management (DRM) system—linking policy reform, institutional capacity, and financial preparedness to better manage shocks.
News: How to get finance flowing to climate adaptation
By World Resources Institute on Nov 14, 2025 02:34 pm
To further reduce debt burdens while freeing up funds for resilience, creditor institutions (including development banks, bilateral donors and private sector investors) could increase the use of tools like “debt-for-resilience swaps.”
News: Environmental Defense Fund and partners launch wildfire action accelerator pledge for more wildfire-resilient tropical regions
By Environmental Defense Fund on Nov 14, 2025 02:29 pm
The Wildfire Action Accelerator Pledge will help mobilize coordinated investment and technical cooperation, connecting prevention, financing, and traditional fire governance to build a safer and more sustainable future for tropical forests.
News: Researchers warn of invisible groundwater threats to aging urban infrastructure in the journal Nature Cities
By University of Rhode Island on Nov 14, 2025 02:12 pm
URI professor Christopher Russoniello and colleagues discuss impact of climate on our cities.
News: Enhanced climate models to reveal how our cities are driving and feeling the effects of climate change
By University of Manchester on Nov 14, 2025 02:08 pm
Scientists have developed a new way to represent the world’s cities in global climate and Earth system models (GCM & ESMs), offering a more accurate picture of how urban areas are being affected by – and contributing to – climate change.
News: Study provides new forecasts of remote islands’ vulnerability to sea level rise
By University of Plymouth on Nov 14, 2025 02:04 pm
Low-lying atoll islands are among the most vulnerable places on Earth due to rising sea levels and, when they flood, it is disruptive and potentially hazardous.
News: As homes get hotter, new research aims to tackle the issue of indoor heatwaves
By University of Glasgow on Nov 14, 2025 01:58 pm
Ground-breaking research by the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow has found a new way of detecting indoor mini-heatwaves and the factors influencing these.
News: One-in-five homes not equipped to handle hot weather, say experts
By Loughborough University on Nov 14, 2025 01:53 pm
Following the frequent and intense heatwaves experienced in the UK this summer, researchers at Loughborough University are warning that many UK homes are no longer fit for rising temperatures – and overheating is putting health and wellbeing at risk.
News: Information integrity: Keeping the data in mind during COP30
By Avoidable Deaths Network on Nov 14, 2025 01:44 pm
Data reflects both an observer and the observed. When information is stored as data, it is collected, selected, and sampled based on the ability and “sight” of its captor.
News: Lightning the silent killer: How climate change is fuelling lightning strikes and fatalities- and how India leads building lightning resilience of communities
By Avoidable Deaths Network on Nov 14, 2025 01:40 pm
The rising threat of lightning strikes is a stark reminder of the devastating impact of climate change on human lives and livelihoods. This is what India is doing about it.
News: UNDRR and the International Science Council renew partnership to advance risk-informed sustainable development
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Nov 13, 2025 04:39 pm
The agreement between UNDRR and the ISC extends the collaboration between the two organizations through 2035, reinforcing a shared commitment to harness science for a safer and more resilient world.
News: Meet the winners of the TECH4Resilience Challenge
By Global Resilience Partnership on Nov 13, 2025 01:56 pm
Eight initiatives using AI-powered solutions to advance climate and disaster preparedness.
News: Preparing for when disaster and conflict converge
By The Interpreter on Nov 13, 2025 01:56 pm
Record breaking flooding and typhoons in Vietnam and the Philippines underlines a vital truth for Australia’s strategic community – that civil-emergency preparedness and national resilience are essential components of defence posture.
News: Paths to resilience in the Amazon
By World Food Programme (WFP) on Nov 13, 2025 01:54 pm
How WFP works across borders to protect improve food security of communities in the region known as ‘the lungs of the earth’.
News: No time to recover: Hurricane Melissa and the Caribbean’s compounding disaster trap as the storms keep coming
By Conversation Media Group, the on Nov 13, 2025 01:53 pm
Headlines have been filled with talk of the catastrophic power of Hurricane Melissa after the Category 5 storm devastated communities across Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti in October 2025.
News: 94% of agricultural finance institutions see climate change as a material risk to business
By Environmental Defense Fund on Nov 13, 2025 01:50 pm
A new survey from Environmental Defense Fund gathered insights from 156 agricultural finance institutions across 17 countries and found that the majority are stepping up to manage these risks.
News: Heavy rainfall leading to widespread flooding in eastern Mexico disproportionately impacts highly exposed Indigenous and socially vulnerable communities
By World Weather Attribution on Nov 13, 2025 01:42 pm
In early October 2025, three days of very heavy rainfall hit the Eastern coast of Mexico, causing widespread flooding, overflowing rivers, and numerous landslides.
News: The Caribbean has a super-hurricane problem
By Yale Climate Connections on Nov 13, 2025 01:41 pm
Caribbean nations face an increasing threat from super hurricanes, which can cost a significant fraction of their GDP. Climate change is expected to make the strongest hurricanes stronger.
News: Five ways COP30 could advance gender and climate justice
By ODI Global on Nov 13, 2025 01:38 pm
The climate crisis disproportionately impacts women. Researchers like me write that a lot. But it’s important that we can all visualise how gender inequality and the climate crisis come together, and why.
News: Advancing just and inclusive disaster risk reduction in Africa
By Stockholm Environment Institute on Nov 13, 2025 01:35 pm
SEI Africa, with its strong regional partnerships and track record in equitable climate adaptation research, is well-placed to help shape solutions that are both just and inclusive, ensuring that no community is left behind.
News: Challenging anthropocentrism: Non-human loss and damage and the climate debt in heat-stressed urban India
By Avoidable Deaths Network on Nov 13, 2025 01:29 pm
Animal suffering is an example of non-economic loss and damage that is not recorded by the current loss and damage mechanism, which is inherently anthropogenic, focusing on human-centric, non-economic and economic losses.
News: Why the Middle East is being left behind by global climate finance plans
By Conversation Media Group, the on Nov 13, 2025 01:06 pm
The Middle East region, home to both oil-rich economies and fragile, conflict-affected states, remains among the most underfunded in the global climate landscape.
News: Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change
By Conversation Media Group, the on Nov 13, 2025 12:59 pm
Actions by governments and companies are necessary to protect people from a warmer climate and stop the underlying causes of climate change.
News: Tokyo builds climate resilience with AI and citizen action
By Agence France Presse on Nov 13, 2025 12:00 pm
An AI-based model processes tide and weather data to forecast water-level changes up to fifteen hours ahead, supporting floodgate and pump station operations.
News: Preparing cities for a changing climate
By Deltares on Nov 12, 2025 06:12 pm
Deltares has published two new papers with insights for cities on how to make smart choices for a climate resilient future. Deltares aims to provide practical tools to support decision makers.
News: Canada, Singapore and UK among countries most prepared for climate change, BloombergNEF’s new ranking of climate adaptation preparedness finds
By Bloomberg NEF (BNEF) on Nov 12, 2025 06:06 pm
BloombergNEF’s (BNEF’s) analysis of major economies shows Canada, Singapore and South Korea are leading when it comes to preparedness to adapt to a changing climate, with Saudi Arabia and Russia among the least prepared.
News: Wildfire defense that works
By University of California, Berkeley on Nov 12, 2025 05:45 pm
Fire-prone communities are eager for solutions to better protect themselves. Now, a Berkeley-led study provides data on how mitigation strategies can reduce wildfire destruction by as much as 50%.
News: Strictly protected Mediterranean forests stay cooler, study finds
By University of Tuscia on Nov 12, 2025 05:37 pm
According to new research, Mediterranean forests that are allowed to grow naturally within strictly protected areas can stay up to 2°C cooler during summer heat waves compared to actively managed woodlands.
News: Bangladesh: Flood-hit families find safety on higher ground
By World Food Programme (WFP) on Nov 12, 2025 05:25 pm
As weather extremes deepen hunger, a WFP programme has given at-risk communities the tools to respond.
News: Digital devices boost urban flood response participation
By Bioengineer.org on Nov 12, 2025 05:20 pm
The research interrogates the role digital technology plays in mobilizing citizens in flood-prone metropolitan areas.
News: Families of girls and counselors who died in Texas floods allege negligence by Camp Mystic
By NBC News on Nov 12, 2025 05:20 pm
Twenty-seven children and counselors died in the disaster in Kerr County, which was caused by slow-moving thunderstorms. More than 100 people died overall.
News: Learning from other countries on how to teach resilience
By Schools Week on Nov 12, 2025 04:58 pm
The pandemic exposed our vulnerabilities more starkly than any recent event. Yet we have failed to embed its lessons into the curriculum. Let’s learn from other countries.
News: Community-led innovation strengthens flood resilience in Brisbane’s West End
By Queensland Government on Nov 12, 2025 04:37 pm
The catastrophic flooding of February 2022 devastated the peninsula, impacting 19 of its 57 apartment buildings. Enter Resilient Kurilpa, a groundbreaking, community-led initiative developed in response to the floods.
News: Climate change expands wildfire danger worldwide: New study warns of unprecedented risks in the coming decades
By Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici on Nov 12, 2025 01:48 pm
A new study, led by CMCC and Coventry University, reveals that climate change will dramatically expand wildfire danger across the globe, with up to 91% of fire-prone regions experiencing heightened risk by the end of this century.
News: COP30: The cautionary tale of the Sahel’s Great Green Wall
By The New Humanitarian on Nov 12, 2025 01:45 pm
As world leaders gather in Brazil for COP30, where funding from industrialised countries to poorer nations to protect their forests will be a key discussion point, the Great Green Wall initiative could offer some lessons.
News: From Paris to Belém: Building a climate-resilient food future
By Observer Research Foundation on Nov 12, 2025 01:45 pm
Food systems have moved from the sidelines to the centre of climate action, as COP30 aims to embed agriculture within the Paris framework for resilience and mitigation.
News: COP30: How anticipatory action helps people prepare as extreme weather strikes
By World Food Programme (WFP) on Nov 12, 2025 01:44 pm
The World Food Programme is marking ten years of anticipatory action, working with partners to improve forecasts and tailor activations ahead of emergencies.
News: WMO at COP: Science warns us and helps us adapt to climate change
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Nov 12, 2025 01:36 pm
The World Meteorological Organization community will continue to provide science-based climate monitoring to anchor COP negotiations in authoritative evidence, and to support both mitigation and adaptation.
News: Climate disasters will send many countries into a debt spiral – but there’s a way out
By Conversation Media Group, the on Nov 12, 2025 01:36 pm
Increasingly frequent climate disasters wipe out years of progress in small island developing states, forcing them into increasingly costly borrowing to fund their recovery.
News: Preserving Legacies named Local Adaptation Champion by Global Center on Adaptation at COP30, Belém, Brazil
By National Geographic Society on Nov 12, 2025 01:35 pm
Preserving Legacies, a National Geographic Society project dedicated to safeguarding global natural and cultural heritage sites from climate change impacts, was awarded the Local Adaptation Champion Award for Citizen Science at COP30.
News: New framework and toolkit strengthen governance for preventing and managing extreme heat
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Nov 12, 2025 10:59 am
As the world faces record-breaking temperatures, a new Extreme Heat Risk Governance Framework and Toolkit was launched today at COP30 to help countries strengthen governance, coordination, and investment in response to escalating heat risks.
News: Building a culture of disaster prevention and response in Hue
By Nhân Dân on Nov 11, 2025 05:45 pm
Living in a region frequently hit by typhoons, floods, whirlwinds and droughts, Hue residents have continually devised innovative and flexible ways to adapt to their natural environment in order to survive and thrive.
News: Scaling up parametric flood insurance at the sub-national level in Kenya
By InsuResilience Solutions Fund on Nov 11, 2025 05:44 pm
The project aims to scale up an index-based flood insurance solution to reach 20,000 vulnerable households in Tana River County.
News: A disease-carrying mosquito has landed in the Rocky Mountains where it historically couldn’t survive
By Inside Climate News on Nov 11, 2025 05:44 pm
It can carry life-threatening diseases. It’s difficult to find and hard to kill. And it’s obsessed with human blood.
News: Early warning app helping Australia’s regional towns prepare for disaster
By Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) on Nov 11, 2025 05:44 pm
The online dashboard brings hundreds of data sets together measuring factors such as housing availability, school attendance rates, the number of tradies and access to local spaces to calculate a council area’s resilience level.
News: Why adaptation finance is moving up the climate finance agenda — and how financial institutions can engage at COP30
By UNEP Finance Initiative on Nov 11, 2025 04:20 pm
As the impacts of climate change accelerate, climate adaptation — the process of adjusting systems, communities, and economies to changing climate conditions — is moving from the margins to the mainstream of climate action.
News: Adaptation that works: From local action to global ambition at COP30
By Avoidable Deaths Network on Nov 11, 2025 04:20 pm
As the world prepares for COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the conversation on climate change is finally shifting from crisis to capability. The call from developing nations is clear: adaptation is not charity; it is investment in shared survival and development.
News: How to empower teachers and help students prepare for a sustainable future
By Conversation Media Group, the on Nov 11, 2025 04:19 pm
Education about climate change and sustainability is a vital part of responding to a rapidly changing world, including the negative effects of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
News: Polar climate change could amplify global health risks, study warns
By University of Exeter on Nov 11, 2025 04:19 pm
Climate change in Earth’s polar regions is emerging as an under-recognised driver of global health risks, with consequences reaching far beyond the Arctic and Antarctic, researchers argue.