In the 06/03/2025 edition:
Climate and resilience are at the center of today’s global challenges. From shifting weather patterns to resilient infrastructure, 2025 is shaping a critical path for adaptation and mitigation worldwide.
News: Climate change’s impact on an Atlantic Ocean current more limited than previous estimates, new study concludes
By New York University on Jun 02, 2025 04:27 pm
A new analysis by an international team of researchers shows that while climate change will cause the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation to weaken, this is likely to occur less dramatically than current climate model projections have suggested.
DRR Community Voices: From risk to resilience: A new tool to build safer cities
By Anonymous on Jun 02, 2025 04:10 pm
Green buildings have made real progress over the past decade. At IFC, our Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies (EDGE) green building programme has helped to certify thousands of energy- and resource-efficient buildings.
News: Researchers use deep learning to predict flooding this hurricane season
By Virginia Tech on Jun 02, 2025 03:42 pm
A recent study introduces a new deep learning framework to predict the rise and fall of water levels during storms – even in places where tide gauges fail or data is scarce – through a technique known as “transfer learning.”
News: When climate disasters hit, they often leave long-term health care access shortages, Drexel study finds
By Drexel University School of Public Health on Jun 02, 2025 03:11 pm
Immediate recovery efforts receive the most attention after severe natural disasters, yet new data suggests these climate events often also leave a critical long-term – and often unaddressed – problem in declines in access to health care.
News: Hurricane season is here, but FEMA’s policy change could leave low-income areas less protected
By Conversation Media Group, the on Jun 02, 2025 02:39 pm
Experts worry that changes to FEMA’s equity requirement regulation might mean low-income and other at-risk communities will be ignored again when cities develop their next five-year mitigation plans
News: Natural factors predominantly drive desertification in Central Asia, study reveals
By Chinese Academy of Sciences on Jun 02, 2025 01:58 pm
A study has revealed that natural environmental factors are the predominant drivers of desertification across Central Asia.
News: These Pacific Islands are building walls to stop rising seas. Will it work?
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Jun 02, 2025 01:43 pm
Coastal engineers say places like the Netherlands have long used engineering to hold back the sea from low-lying land—and that the Pacific could do the same. But researchers say seawalls are usually a costly, short-term fix in a region with limited mone
News: Flooding in a changing climate: Why we need systemic action now
By Open Access Government on Jun 02, 2025 01:36 pm
Integrated flood risk management offers a better path forward. This means combining smart spatial planning – like avoiding construction in high-risk areas – with effective engineering solutions, early warning systems and public education.
News: An era of extreme heat: Teleconnections of glacial risks from the Arctic to the Third Pole
By United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) on Jun 02, 2025 01:33 pm
New research reveals that climate change impacts in one region can trigger effects in another across vast distances. Understanding these links could help us build smarter, more united adaptation strategies.
News: Climate change-driven heat fuels dangerous wildfires in Canada
By Climate Central on Jun 02, 2025 01:30 pm
Climate change is fueling this early-season heat, making high temperatures in parts of central Canada at least five times more likely than they would be in a world without climate change.
News: Should we add a Category 6 hurricane to the Saffir-Simpson scale? Experts weigh in
By Northeastern University on Jun 02, 2025 12:51 pm
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting an above-average Atlantic hurricane season from June 1 through Nov. 30. As hurricanes intensify in severity, some meteorologists say that it might be time to rethink the rating system
News: Amid scorching temperatures, India turns to ideas both old and new to beat the heat
By United Nations Environment Programme on Jun 02, 2025 12:26 pm
India has emerged as a global champion of passive cooling, integrating these approaches into national policies and city planning. Crucially, these solutions don’t spew out planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions nor enflame the climate crisis.
News: Farming and flooding: how agriculture is working alongside nature to slow the flow in North Yorkshire
By United Kingdom – government on Jun 02, 2025 12:05 pm
Using nature-based solutions to benefit both agriculture and wildlife while reducing flood risk is the aim of an innovative project “Ousewem” in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
News: Women aren’t 14 times more likely to die in disasters – inequality is the real killer
By Climate Home News on Jun 02, 2025 10:12 am
Women often do face bigger climate risks but not because they are inherently more vulnerable – they are held back by social barriers we can tackle.
News: High-level call to action: Glacier hazards and Early Warnings for All
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia on Jun 02, 2025 10:07 am
UNDRR, WMO, and the Government of Switzerland organized a special thematic session on “Glacial-Related Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction: Leveraging the EW4ALL Initiative” within the High-Level International Conference on Glaciers’ Preservation.
News: Ten years of Sendai: five big changes in disaster risk reduction and what comes next
By Overseas Development Institute on Jun 02, 2025 09:46 am
In 2015, governments around the world agreed on a new global framework to reduce the impact of disasters. Ten years on, it’s time to take stock of what’s changed, what’s worked, and what must happen next.
News: Share your voice Live from the Global Platform
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Jun 01, 2025 06:12 pm
As the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction unfolds, we invite you to share your experience in real time.
News: Thousands of sensors reveal 3D structure of earthquake-triggered sound waves
By Nagoya University on May 30, 2025 04:30 pm
4500+ satellite receivers help create an unprecedented 3D time-lapse of how earthquakes disturb the upper atmosphere.
News: Does planting trees really help cool the planet?
By University of California, Riverside on May 30, 2025 04:24 pm
Researchers show that restoring forests to their preindustrial extent could lower global average temperatures by 0.34 degrees Celsius. That is roughly one-quarter of the warming the Earth has already experienced.
News: Hurricane Ida in 2021 could have been even worse for New York City
By Stevens Institute of Technology on May 30, 2025 04:14 pm
All told, Ida would wreak an estimated $75 billion in total damages and be responsible for 112 fatalities—including 32 in New Jersey and 16 in New York state. Yet the hurricane could have been even worse in the Big Apple.
News: Rising seas complicate Los Angeles wildfire rebuilding
By Context on May 30, 2025 04:08 pm
As seas rise, California coastal communities damaged by wildfires debate if they should remain on the shoreline.
DRR Community Voices: Yemen’s front lines of resilience: How local action is saving lives from floods and conflict
By Anonymous on May 30, 2025 03:26 pm
Yemen Al-Khair for Relief and Development (YARD) has long understood that building resilience in Yemen’s complex context requires local leadership, evidence-based planning and community engagement.
News: Risks reduced, resilience raised: Saoirse Jones on insurance with purpose
By Global Shield Financing Facility on May 30, 2025 02:52 pm
Insurance plays a vital role in enabling DRR both directly and indirectly. It shapes behaviors through underwriting, pricing, and risk advisory, while also supporting longer-term investments in resilience.
News: Study finds Alaska, rest of Earth, to lose most of glacier mass
By University of Alaska Fairbanks on May 30, 2025 02:39 pm
An international study has found that Earth’s glaciers will lose 76% of their 2020 mass under current climate policy pledges made by nations.
News: Mapping the weather with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
By Royal Meteorological Society on May 30, 2025 02:12 pm
Weather is inherently geographic. A thunderstorm over Atlanta doesn’t directly affect Chicago. A drought in California has different consequences than drought in the Midwest. GIS gives context to weather by showing where and how it matters.
News: NSW is again cleaning up after major floods. Are we veering towards the collapse of insurability?
By Conversation Media Group, the on May 30, 2025 02:05 pm
After each major disaster event comes a rise in insurance costs and a withdrawal of insurance coverage. To avoid being a canary in the coalmine, Australia urgently needs government intervention in the insurance industry.
News: New IAEA project to enhance water forecasting
By International Atomic Energy Agency on May 30, 2025 01:56 pm
The IAEA is launching a new research project to integrate isotope tracers into hydrological and climate modelling systems for more robust simulations of water availability.
News: UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation provides an early overview of how LA’s water systems and their residents were impacted by the 2025 wildfires
By University of California, Los Angeles on May 30, 2025 01:25 pm
From boil-water advisories to direct infrastructure damage, findings underscore the need for equitable and resilient recovery
News: Call for papers: Towards a digital ecosystem of virtual testbeds to support Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in complex multi-risk frameworks
By International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier) on May 30, 2025 12:05 pm
Project RETURN a digital ecosystem of virtual testbeds is being built with the objective of describing and simulating complex multi-risk processes in virtual environments deemed plausibly representative of realistic contexts in Italy
News: Drought-fighting soil bacteria helping wheat beat the heat
By Western Sydney University on May 30, 2025 11:55 am
Western Sydney University researchers have discovered that drought affected wheat plants are able to call on eco-friendly soil bacteria to survive, helping keep crops healthy, boost yields, and provide pathways to develop extreme weather resistant crops.
News: How AI might become the future of hurricane flood forecasting
By Florida International University on May 30, 2025 11:48 am
Artificial intelligence is becoming an asset in hurricane forecasting. Researchers are now exploring another dimension of hurricane forecasting where AI is expected to make an impact: flood forecasting.
News: Climate policy can save half of the world’s glaciers
By Carnegie Mellon University on May 30, 2025 11:28 am
A study published in Science finds that twice as much of the world’s glacier mass could be preserved by meeting the 1.5°C threshold set by the Paris Agreement.
News: Climate change made extreme heat days more likely
By Eos – AGU on May 30, 2025 10:56 am
A new attribution study shows every single extreme heat event since last May was made more probable by climate change.
News: Call for papers: Advancing information systems (IS) for climate emergencies and disaster management
By International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier) on May 29, 2025 03:51 pm
IJDRR invite high-quality, interdisciplinary contributions covering topics related to transforming disaster management by offering actionable insights and predictive modeling.
News: Global climate predictions show temperatures expected to remain at or near record levels in coming 5 years
By World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on May 29, 2025 03:25 pm
Global climate predictions show temperatures are expected to continue at or near record levels in the next five years, increasing climate risks and impacts on societies, economies and sustainable development, according to a new WMO report.
News: Valencia flood: Early Warning Systems (EWS) offer more than just “response time”
By CIMA Foundation – Centro Internazionale in Monitoraggio Ambientale on May 29, 2025 03:16 pm
A truly effective civil protection system relies on continuous, structured coordination between its various components, both in times of “peace” and during emergencies.
News: AI-powered refugee forecasting: Preparing for refugee movements before they happen
By World Bank, the on May 29, 2025 03:02 pm
The World Bank has developed an AI-powered model that analyzes over 90 variables to forecast refugee arrivals 4 to 6 months in advance, enabling governments to shift from reactive to anticipatory responses.
News: Psychosocial hazards: preventing human-caused disasters
By Domestic Preparedness on May 29, 2025 02:51 pm
There is never a single contributor to what is described as a “human-caused” incident, emergency, or disaster, but rather a complex web of contributing factors.
News: Warning for the unprecedented: how do authorities convince communities to act?
By Natural Hazards Research Australia on May 29, 2025 02:26 pm
When warning of extreme natural hazards, emergency services are often challenged by individuals’ decision-making process during stressful and uncertain circumstances.
News: Climate change and the rise of adult male dropouts
By Open Access Government on May 29, 2025 02:17 pm
Masahiro Yoshida from Waseda University’s Department of Political Science and Economics explores the link between global warming and male labor force participation.
News: Glacier collapse destroys Swiss village of Blatten – More melting giants to follow?
By Onewater on May 29, 2025 02:11 pm
A catastrophic glacier collapse on May 28, 2025, buried most of the Swiss village of Blatten, located in the southern canton of Valais, under a massive avalanche of ice, rock, and mud.
News: From data to resilience: Kelvin Shikuku and KAZNET shortlisted for 2025 Sasakawa Award
By Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC) on May 29, 2025 02:03 pm
SPARC scientist Kelvin Shikuku is shortlisted for 2025 Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction.
News: Risk-informed development
By United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on May 29, 2025 01:53 pm
There is need for risk-informed development to minimize such loss and damage. This means including disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation solutions in our development policies and investments .
News: Typhoon preparedness in the Philippines: why monitoring and early warning matter
By Pacific Disaster Center on May 29, 2025 01:50 pm
Through a long-term partnership between the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) and the Philippines Office of Civil Defense (OCD), the Philippines’ capacity to monitor hazards and take early action has greatly enhanced in recent years.
News: Knowledge Primer: Why are behavioural insights important for whole-of-society disaster preparedness?
By Union Civil Protection Knowledge Network on May 29, 2025 01:47 pm
Being prepared for Europe’s changing risk landscape is essential to building societal resilience. Special Eurobarometer 547 pinpoints several areas of improvement in population preparedness.
News: Hurricane season is upon us, but NOAA and FEMA are not ready
By Yale Climate Connections on May 29, 2025 01:41 pm
The turmoil at key U.S. agencies threatens everything from forecast quality to storm recovery.
News: Florida bill would ban ‘chemtrails’ and ‘geoengineering.’ But what are they?
By PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd on May 29, 2025 11:28 am
The coming ban on weather modification may have good intentions, weather experts said this week, but it conflates legitimate geoengineering research with conspiracy theories about chemtrails.
DRR Community Voices: From warnings to action: How Makati is building a resilient future with MAWARI
By Zean Denice T. Campo on May 28, 2025 04:44 pm
MAWARI is more than just an early warning system. It’s a philosophy of disaster risk reduction rooted in science, local knowledge and community trust. At its core is one simple but powerful belief: information alone doesn’t save lives.
News: Emergency drill finds US agencies underprepared for solar storm
By International Fire & Safety Journal on May 28, 2025 04:35 pm
The United States federal government has published the results of a multi-agency simulation that tested national preparedness for a large-scale solar storm.
News: Study links rising temperatures to increased women’s cancer rates in Middle East
By Open Access Government on May 28, 2025 04:15 pm
A study on Middle Eastern countries has linked higher temperatures to an increased risk of women’s cancers, including breast, ovarian, uterine, and cervical cancers
News: 4 critical dimensions for designing and implementing premium support for climate risk insurance
By United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) on May 28, 2025 03:58 pm
Explore 4 essential ways premium support can boost climate resilience for vulnerable communities facing growing climate risks.
News: Vietnam: Adapting through adversity
By United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on May 28, 2025 03:50 pm
Today, Viet Nam faces a new challenge–rising sea levels, flooding, saltwater intrusion, and stronger storm surges resulting from climate change.
News: Why Aboriginal knowledge matters in Australia’s climate change disaster responses
By Monash University on May 28, 2025 03:38 pm
Last year, in Queensland and South Australia, Aboriginal leaders, traditional owner groups, senior emergency management officials, agency staff, and non-government organisations gathered for a roundtable discussion on Aboriginal disaster resilience.
News: Study analyzes air quality impacts of wildfire smoke
By Desert Research Institute (DRI) on May 28, 2025 03:17 pm
The comprehensive research examined air quality in Reno, Nevada during 106 wildfires to illuminate the atmospheric and public health impacts of smoke.
News: Crop diversification is crucial to Canadian resilience in a changing world
By Conversation Media Group, the on May 28, 2025 03:09 pm
At a time of changing geopolitical and physical environments, long-term resilience of Canada’s farms must be ensured. An important step towards achieving this complex and multifaceted goal would be to diversify the country’s crop production.
News: Earth is heading for 2.7°C warming this century. We may avoid the worst climate scenarios – but the outlook is still dire
By Conversation Media Group, the on May 28, 2025 03:04 pm
Is climate action a lost cause? The United States is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement for the second time, while heat records over land and sea have toppled and extreme weather events have multiplied.
News: How health systems in Asia are adapting to climate change impacts
By United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on May 28, 2025 02:33 pm
As global temperatures rise, the risks to human health are escalating. Climate change is expected to cause additional deaths each year between 2030 and 2050, due to the rising incidence of malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat-related illnesses.
News: Climate change slashes wind power potential, new forecasts show
By PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd on May 28, 2025 01:42 pm
A new study published in the journal Climatic Change highlights significant shifts in wind patterns across the Middle East due to climate change, with critical implications for the region’s wind energy potential.
News: Predicting underwater landslides before they strike
By PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd on May 28, 2025 12:23 pm
A new model calibration methodology increases the accuracy and confidence of the landslide model when it makes predictions. This helps improve underwater landslide risk assessments for ocean wind farms, oil rigs and other offshore installations.
News: Raining one week, dusty the next – how did a dust storm make it all the way to rainy Sydney?
By Conversation Media Group, the on May 28, 2025 11:36 am
Extreme weather events such as drought in one part of the country can cause trouble for people “downwind”, hundreds of kilometres away.