Readiness to avoid disasters...
BBC Inside Science - can we prevent disasters?
Crisis Architecture - designing to face disasters
Crisis Architecture - designing to face disasters
Do events have to turn into disasters? Is there anything we can do to mitigate their impacts? Gaia Vince asks experts, including Ilan...
Crisis Architecture - designing to face disasters
Crisis Architecture - designing to face disasters
Crisis Architecture - designing to face disasters
How should we build homes to better withstand disasters? This podcast offers some ideas...
Stopping disaster risk spiralling out of control
Crisis Architecture - designing to face disasters
Stopping disaster risk spiralling out of control
UNDRR Head Mami Mizutori describes how greater efforts to limit death and destruction from disasters will benefit the planet...
Avoiding a disaster in a dangerous world
Are we ready to deal with multiple situations / events at once?
Stopping disaster risk spiralling out of control
Experts gathered at UN Headquarters in May 2023 to speed up efforts to implement the agreement to bring about a safer world...
Are we ready to deal with multiple situations / events at once?
Are we ready to deal with multiple situations / events at once?
Are we ready to deal with multiple situations / events at once?
This article from The World Bank asks are we ready to respond to multiple events occurring together at the same time...
Will El Niño on top of global heating create a perfect storm?
Are we ready to deal with multiple situations / events at once?
Are we ready to deal with multiple situations / events at once?
Rising temperatures in north Atlantic and drop in Antarctic sea ice are prompting fears of more damage from extreme weather...
News from the International Journal of Wildland Fires
News from the International Journal of Wildland Fires
A summary about decision support systems & tools, risk reduction and assessment, urban interface and wildfire management and safety.
Global trends in wildfire and its impacts
News from the International Journal of Wildland Fires
Fire activity is rising in some regions, but as of 2020, the total area burned at the global level was not seeing an overall increase...
A human-driven decline in global burned area
This piece from 2017 remains valid, describing how the global burned area declined by ∼25% over 18 years to 2017...
Land use planning to reduce fire risk to homes and communities
Land use planning to reduce fire risk to homes and communities
This piece describes some advice on land use planning and home construction to protect against wildland fires.
Lightning-caused wildland fires 80% more likely when dry
Land use planning to reduce fire risk to homes and communities
Lightning-caused wildland fires 80% more likely when dry
Scientists use satellites to uncover the role of vegetation dryness to aide wildland fires management and preparedness in California.
The Eruption after tomorrow...
Land use planning to reduce fire risk to homes and communities
Lightning-caused wildland fires 80% more likely when dry
Imagine the perfect storm. A series of severe volcanic eruptions engulf the globe, spewing ash and sulphur into the atmosphere...
Upfront action to avoid disasters...
The simple ways cities can adapt to heatwaves
Earth observations reveal how green spaces, white roads and water features are helping keep cities cool during deadly heatwaves...
New data shows the benefit of sending cash early
IRC research indicates cash-based anticipatory action greatly aides people in settings affected by conflict and climate change...
Designing for disaster
Designing for disaster
An editorial series exploring ways that design can help prevent, mitigate and recover from natural hazards...
Ongoing efforts to avoid disasters...
Better monitoring of cyclones across the world
Better monitoring of cyclones across the world
Better monitoring of cyclones across the world
In this piece published by EUMetSat, Altimetry expert Vinca Rosmorduc shines a light on how observations from satellite altimeters enable meteorologists to more accurately forecast and track cyclones.
A Europe-wide project to tame wildfires
Better monitoring of cyclones across the world
Better monitoring of cyclones across the world
FirEUrisk is a major project funded by the European Commission for use across Europe to help build resilient communities towards wildfires...
Using AI for better wildfire management
Better monitoring of cyclones across the world
A reduction in plastic production could make a major difference
The Australian business Carbonix and ANU’s Bushfire Centre of Excellence are driving predictive models for proactive bushfire management...
A reduction in plastic production could make a major difference
A reduction in plastic production could make a major difference
A reduction in plastic production could make a major difference
With hard work, determination and a lot of luck a planned new plastics treaty might join the Montreal protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer as a landmark success in environmental diplomacy...
How a drought is bringing a lost canyon in the US back to life
A reduction in plastic production could make a major difference
How a drought is bringing a lost canyon in the US back to life
Record dryness has restored an ecosystem under Lake Powell, the country’s second-largest reservoir. Is it time to see it as ‘a national park rather than a storage tank’?
Watch points...
Disaster risk out of control despite global agreement to stop them
The conclusion of a multi-country review initiated by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) is that decision makers are failing to put people first and prevent risks from becoming disasters...
A Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework
The Report of the Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 summarises progress towards achieving the framework is working...
Climate alarmists falsely claim the world is literally on fire
Climate alarmists falsely claim the world is literally on fire
For more than two decades, satellites have recorded fires across the Earth. The data are unequivocal: Since the early 2000s, when 3% of the world’s land caught fire, the area burned annually has trended downward...
Number of wildfires could rise by 50% by 2100
More than 800 million trees felled in the Amazon for beef
Climate alarmists falsely claim the world is literally on fire
Climate change and land-use change could make wildland fires more frequent and intense, with a global rise in extreme fires of 50 per cent by 2100 according to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and GRID-Arendal...
Gallagher Re natural catastrophe report 2022
More than 800 million trees felled in the Amazon for beef
More than 800 million trees felled in the Amazon for beef
In this report, Gallagher summarises the major catastrophe events that occurred around the globe in 2022, detailing the financial loss, fatalities and other major considerations...
More than 800 million trees felled in the Amazon for beef
More than 800 million trees felled in the Amazon for beef
More than 800 million trees felled in the Amazon for beef
More than 800m trees have been cut down in the Amazon rainforest in just six years to feed the world’s appetite for Brazilian beef, according to the Guardian newspaper...
A major drought could be the next pandemic
Food shortages could arise quicker than we think
Food shortages could arise quicker than we think
This opinion piece published in The Guardian by Tim Smedley describes the need to rethink while the world becomes drier, profit and pollution are draining our resources.
Food shortages could arise quicker than we think
Food shortages could arise quicker than we think
Food shortages could arise quicker than we think
The world is likely to face major disruption to food supplies well before temperatures rise by the 1.5C target, the president of the UN’s desertification conference has warned...
Six volcanoes that could shut down the world
Food shortages could arise quicker than we think
Six volcanoes that could shut down the world
This piece published in The Week in Nov 2022 describes six different volcanoes around the world that could cause serious problems if they erupt....