In the 03/18/2025 edition:
By The Wildlife Trusts on Mar 17, 2025 06:23 pm
A new report commissioned by RSA Insurance, an Intact company, and The Wildlife Trusts shows that every £1 invested in natural flood management (NFM) is expected to deliver £10 of benefits over 30 years.
News: Adverse climatic conditions drive coffee prices to highest level in years
By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – Headquarters on Mar 17, 2025 06:22 pm
World coffee prices reached a multi-year high in 2024 – increasing 38.8 percent on the previous year’s average – mostly driven by inclement weather affecting key producing countries.
News: NASA analysis shows unexpected amount of sea level rise in 2024
By National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Mar 17, 2025 06:17 pm
In 2024, global sea levels rose faster than expected due to record ocean warming and thermal expansion, as per NASA. Sea levels increased by 0.23 inches annually, with two-thirds of the rise from expanding seawater.
News: Changes in bats’ diets increase spread of viruses, spillover risk
By Cornell University on Mar 17, 2025 06:17 pm
A new study explains why and how the bats’ non-native diets increased viral shedding.
News: Smoke from wildland-urban interface fires more deadly than remote wildfires
By National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) on Mar 17, 2025 04:36 pm
The smoke from fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) has far greater health impacts than smoke from wildfires in remote areas, new research finds.
By International Science Council (ISC) on Mar 17, 2025 12:36 pm
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is inviting nominations for consideration as Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors, or Review Editors for the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) of the IPCC.
News: Call for experts for IPCC Task Group on Data Support for Climate Change Assessments
By International Science Council (ISC) on Mar 17, 2025 12:27 pm
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is inviting nominations of experts to serve in the Task Group on Data Support for Climate Change Assessments (TG-Data).
News: Wildfires pose challenges to cancer care
By Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on Mar 17, 2025 12:17 pm
A new study found that patients recovering from lung cancer surgery in a facility near an active wildfire stayed in the hospital longer than similar patients in the same facility when there were no wildfires.
By Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) on Mar 17, 2025 12:09 pm
Researchers led by the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) have now published a study on the ecological consequences of the Kakhovka Dam collapse in Ukraine.
News: Earthquake rupture patterns improve the assessment of seismic hazard
By Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) on Mar 17, 2025 11:47 am
A new analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides essential insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban areas, particularly concerning the Main Marmara Fault near Istanbul in western Türkiye.
News: Good news: India’s first-ever emergency animal evacuation shelter to be established in Wayanad
By Humane World for Animals (Humane Society International) on Mar 17, 2025 11:37 am
Set to open in 2026, the shelter will provide safe refuge for up to 150 animals during disasters, including goats, cows, pigs and dogs.
News: Unprecedented changes to North Atlantic winds could have major impacts on UK weather
By Met Office on Mar 14, 2025 06:32 pm
A groundbreaking study reveals that the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) could reach unprecedented magnitudes by the end of the century, leading to severe impacts such as increased flooding and storm damage in northern Europe.
By Climate Change Performance Index on Mar 14, 2025 06:31 pm
What is the difference between the Climate Change Performance Index and the newly launched Climate Risk Index? How are they related? And what do they tell us about future climate policy? All these questions will be answered in the blog below.
News: Sea level game creates climate awareness among young people
By Utrecht University on Mar 14, 2025 06:30 pm
Sea level game creates climate awareness among young people. After playing the game, participants felt more aware of sea level rise and more confident in their ability to influence it. The study has been published today in Geoscience Communication.
News: How climate change puts the safety of drinking water at risk
By Yale Environment 360 on Mar 14, 2025 06:24 pm
Wildfires, floods, intense heat, droughts, and other extreme events fueled by climate change are threatening water systems in the U.S. and around the globe.
DRR Community Voices: We need to stop creating disaster risk
By Grace Muir, Aaron Opdyke on Mar 14, 2025 08:47 am
A recent review of disaster risk creation discourses indicates that to account for rising risk, we must further risk reduction efforts by proactively avoiding the creation of disaster risk. This requires changes in how we frame, manage, and assess risk.
By World Weather Attribution on Mar 13, 2025 10:06 pm
The flooding across the border between Botswana and South Africa, caused by heavy rainfall from the 16th to the 20th of February, wreaked havoc on both countries, shutting down major ports of entry into South Africa.
News: Researchers forecast shaking damage from crustal earthquake scenarios in Mexico City
By Seismological Society of America on Mar 13, 2025 04:03 pm
A recent swarm of small shallow earthquakes in Mexico City in 2019 and 2023 caused surprisingly strong ground shaking, prompting researchers to wonder how shaking from a moderate sized earthquake might impact buildings across the city.
News: New study shows how climate change affects rain and floods
By Technische Universität Wien on Mar 13, 2025 03:47 pm
Rain and floods occur on different time scales – hours or days. Now, for the first time, it is possible to explain how climate change affects phenomena on both time scales.
News: Flooding from below: the unseen risks of sea level rise
By Eos – AGU on Mar 13, 2025 03:37 pm
Researchers demonstrate a method for assessing how rising seas could raise groundwater levels, potentially transmitting flood hazards far inland.
By Conversation Media Group, the on Mar 12, 2025 11:01 pm
Authorities on Sunday warned of intense rainfall and dangerous thunderstorms about Brisbane, as remnants of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred continue to be felt across southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales.
News: Why conspiracy theories and misinformation spread in the long wait for Cyclone Alfred
By Conversation Media Group, the on Mar 12, 2025 10:58 pm
Cyclone Alfred threatened Australia’s east coast, sparking misinformation and conspiracy theories on social media.
News: Indonesia’s proneness to disaster and its little-to-no-effort to it
By Modern Diplomacy on Mar 12, 2025 10:53 pm
Indonesia’s high disaster risk demands urgent disaster preparedness strategies. Strengthening disaster education, improving budget allocations for disaster management, and integrating local wisdom into national policies are essential steps.
News: Japan’s small island communities prepare to ride out disasters alone
By Kyodo News on Mar 12, 2025 10:51 pm
After a disaster, Japanese islands’ inherent isolation and remote locations make the delivery of emergency supplies and other aid a big challenge, which makes self-sufficiency critical for the islands’ resilience.
News: New study exposes gaps in cyclone risk planning
By University of Technology Sydney on Mar 12, 2025 10:48 pm
A new systematic review has revealed serious shortcomings in the evaluation of cyclone risk in Australia and worldwide.
News: Climate change made severe UK fires in 2022 six times more likely
By Met Office on Mar 12, 2025 06:39 pm
New research shows that the damaging fires during the UK’s record-breaking 2022 heatwave were made at least six times more likely due to human-caused climate change.
News: Asian megadeltas: Tackling coastal flooding challenges
By Eos – AGU on Mar 12, 2025 06:37 pm
Integrating scientific insights into current actions is crucial for steering future research directions and underpinning informed management of coastal flooding in Asian deltas.
News: At Lake Titicaca, residents feel the strain of climate change and pollution
By Dialogue Earth on Mar 12, 2025 06:25 pm
Indigenous communities face colliding crises as the Andes’ largest lake dries out and chokes on waste, but many are taking action and sharing solutions.
News: China’s trees are feeling the heat
By Dialogue Earth on Mar 12, 2025 06:08 pm
China’s trees struggle with extreme heat and drought, risking ecosystem disruption and crop losses. Adaptation is crucial.
News: Water and climate: Rising risks for urban populations
By WaterAid on Mar 12, 2025 06:08 pm
This new research examines climatic trends over the past 42 years in 112 cities. It analyses whether these cities are becoming more prone to floods, or to droughts, and how these changes affect the people who live there.
News: NASA uses new technology to understand California wildfires
By National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Mar 12, 2025 05:35 pm
The January wildfires in California devastated local habitats and communities. In an effort to better understand wildfire behavior, NASA scientists and engineers tried to learn from the events by testing new technology.
News: Arctic sea ice loss drives drier weather over California and wetter over Spain and Portugal
By Barcelona Institute for Global Health on Mar 12, 2025 05:30 pm
A new modelling study isolates the effect of Arctic sea ice melting from other factors.
News: Storm surge virtual reality simulation designed to save lives
By University of Georgia on Mar 12, 2025 05:16 pm
Weather the Storm, a virtual reality simulation that takes users through the effects of storm surge to communicate its devastating and sometimes fatal consequences, is now available for download.
News: Earth system tipping points are a threat to Europe – how to get prepared?
By University of Oslo on Mar 12, 2025 05:08 pm
Global warming is bringing the world closer to crossing tipping points, setting a path to events that could permanently alter how the planet works, within years, decades or centuries.
News: How a vast digital twin of the Yangtze River could prevent flooding in China
By Springer Nature on Mar 12, 2025 05:02 pm
A project that intertwines data on weather, water flow and energy demand to create a 3D model of the whole river basin would enable researchers and others to make water-management decisions in real time.
News: How cool roofs can be a solution to India’s extreme heat crisis
By India Today, India Today Group on Mar 12, 2025 04:53 pm
To tackle the challenge of increased heat, the roofs of houses in Gujarat have been painted white, as part of a study to analyse the impact of indoor heat on the health of individuals and to show how “cool roofs” can help to tackle this.
News: Global rooftop solar panels could cool Earth by 0.13°C, modeling study suggests
By PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd on Mar 12, 2025 04:46 pm
An interdisciplinary team has found evidence suggesting that if solar panels could be installed on every rooftop in the world, replacing traditional power sources, the result could be a reduction in global surface temperatures by as much as 0.13° C.
By Conversation Media Group, the on Mar 12, 2025 02:55 pm
As climate change worsens, extreme weather will become more frequent and severe. We must minimise the risks of infrastructure failing during these events. It will require a broad range of measures extending beyond those adopted in the past.
By Conversation Media Group, the on Mar 12, 2025 02:47 pm
More than 300,000 homes and businesses are without power, and residents are bracing for heavy rain and flooding after ex-Cyclone Alfred made landfall on Saturday, 8 March.
News: Beloved beaches were washed offshore by Cyclone Alfred – but most of this sand will return
By Conversation Media Group, the on Mar 12, 2025 02:24 pm
As the climate crisis deepens, rebuilding in high-risk areas can create worse, more expensive problems. Communities must begin talking seriously about managed retreat from some areas of the coast.
News: UNDRR welcomes Fijian Broadcasting Corporation disaster resilience plan
By United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Mar 12, 2025 02:04 pm
Fijian Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) officially handed over its Resilience Action Plan to Kamal Kishore, SRSG for Disaster Risk Reduction, marking a milestone as the first South Pacific broadcaster to develop a disaster preparedness and response plan.
By Conversation Media Group, the on Mar 12, 2025 12:26 pm
The 2019 volcanic explosion on Whakaari, which killed 22 people is one of New Zealand’s worst disasters. But an even more devastating catastrophe could happen at one of New Zealand’s most iconic tourism destinations, Piopiotahi/Milford Sound.
By World Weather Attribution on Mar 11, 2025 02:01 pm
A study reveals that extreme heat has severely impacted South Sudan, disproportionately affecting women. School closures, food insecurity, and displacement heighten risks. Adaptation strategies, cooling access, and gender-focused policies are crucial.
News: Women in Nepalese farming community take lead to tackle disaster-induced challenges
By International Water Management Institute (IWMI) on Mar 11, 2025 01:44 pm
Nepal’s agriculture faces disaster risks, increasingly led by women. A firm adopted climate-resilient tech like solar irrigation but struggled with landslide damage. Support for training, repairs, and resilience is crucial.
News: Five years after the pandemic, the world is poorly prepared for another one
By Conversation Media Group, the on Mar 11, 2025 01:30 pm
The world remains unprepared for the next pandemic to come. Public health responses are often slow and politicized. Stronger leadership, funding, and innovation in vaccines and outbreak control are crucial.
News: When women’s perspectives are ignored, it’s a recipe for climate disaster
By Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance on Mar 11, 2025 11:26 am
Plan International improves flood and typhoon resilience in Manila and Navotas by collecting gender-inclusive data. Findings highlight financial gaps and safety risks for women, leading to solutions like savings groups and safe shelters.
News: Women and girls are on the frontline of climate change – but their stories are seldom heard
By Conversation Media Group, the on Mar 11, 2025 11:18 am
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis. However, they are rarely quoted as sources in news about climate change and environmental degradation, and those that do speak up are often threatened.
News: More households than ever are under-insured. Here’s what needs to be done
By Conversation Media Group, the on Mar 11, 2025 11:16 am
Rising insurance costs leave many Australians uninsured, worsening cyclone damage recovery. The Cyclone Reinsurance Pool lowers premiums but is insufficient. Experts urge insurer reforms and climate-adaptive rebuilding to address growing disaster risks.
News: The interplay of ENSO and immunity in infectious disease outbreaks
By Eos – AGU on Mar 11, 2025 11:15 am
ENSO alters weather and may influence infectious disease spread. Disease immunity lags ENSO events, with consecutive events prolonging effects. Understanding climate-disease links could aid early interventions and improve health outcomes.