🔥 Hot off the press: new blog @uk.theconversation.com 'Three ways climate action can be more inclusive for 1.3 billion disabled people' who have no formal @UNFCCC representation 🔗 theconversation.com/three-ways-c... 💬 @ucl.ac.uk @unep.org @uclrdr.bsky.social @stsucl.bsky.social

Heat, humidity and housing: why British heatwaves hit differently theconversation.com/heat-humidit... via @theconversation.com written by our affiliate Prof @hancloke.bsky.social @Uni of Reading with Akshay Deoras

The value of loss and damage data, from early warning to recovery by @UNDRR www.preventionweb.net/quick/102887

Video on the Mental Health Vulnerability Index by Rhiannon Hawkins, filmed by The Loss and Damage Youth Coalition at the @UNFCCC SB64 event last week www.instagram.com/reel/DZuMk6C...

New blog by @carinafearnley.bsky.social & Rhiannon Hawkins 'Unifying climate and disaster risk management: Linking UNDRR and the UNFCCC through the Nairobi Work Programme to strengthen adaptation' published on @PreventionWeb with reflections from @UNFCCC SB64 www.preventionweb.net/drr-communit...

Check out the brand-new hurricane ‘cone of uncertainty’ graphics arriving this season by the NOAA/NWS National Hurricane Center (NHC) www.preventionweb.net/news/check-o...

Public warning systems: Intersec launches accessibility frameworks to remove barriers to global adoption intersec.com/press/public...

Lao PDR ties drought insurance payouts to early warning triggers www.preventionweb.net/news/lao-pdr...

What is impact-based early warning and why does it matter? www.preventionweb.net/news/what-im...

Storm surge responses in Macau: Early warnings and soft adaptation - paper published www.preventionweb.net/publication/...

Early warning! Early action! Early finance? Learning from practice, and strengthening the systems that make early action possible drawing on experiences from India and insights from @EarlyActionREAP www.preventionweb.net/publication/...

School-based disaster risk management guidebook www.preventionweb.net/publication/...

Bridging the gaps: vulnerability profiles to strengthen impact-based early warning and early action for floods and droughts in Kenya www.preventionweb.net/publication/...

The road to timely, relevant and consistent flood warnings: a City of Gold Coast case study www.preventionweb.net/publication/...

From Policy to Practice: Burkina Faso Strengthens Early Warning Systems and Climate Resilience wmo.int/media/projec...

Better preparedness and warning systems needed to deal with ice-rock avalanches - “Overall, the priority should be a shift from reactive disaster response to anticipatory risk governance” says Van Tricht india.mongabay.com/2026/04/five...

From forecasts to futures: how Ugandan communities are turning early warnings into everyday action www.waterattheheartofclimateaction.org/resources/fr...

An early flood warning system designed to save the lives of thousands of people in the Everest region may no longer be working, Nepalese officials have admitted to the BBC, after it was allowed to fall into a state of disrepair www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thailand: State Audit Office proposes strategic upgrades to early warning system to maximize public safety www.preventionweb.net/publication/...

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The AHEAD Global Snapshot #12 provides displacement forecasts for April to June 2026, covering ten countries and analyzing cross-border displacement from Sudan see: drc.ngo/en/documents...

Extreme Heat Deaths Must Be Avoided: by Avoidable Deaths Network. 'Extreme heat deaths are not acts of nature. They are acts of neglect, when warning exists, solutions exist, and yet protection does not. Every life lost to heat is an avoidable loss' www.avoidable-deaths.net/2026/03/28/e...

Hearing the call: How Timor-Leste is reaching the "last mile" with Early Warnings by @UNDRR www.preventionweb.net/news/hearing...

15 years after the Great East Japan earthquake & tsunami: we continue to honour those lost and the communities that were forever changed. These experiences taught important lessons that have influenced global approaches to disaster risk reduction

First Africa Climate–Health Desk launched by ACMAD, WHO & WMO. As extreme heat & other climate and health hazards intensify across the continent, the new Desk is designed to translate & transmit life-saving climate intelligence to reach key decision-makers climahealth.info/africa-clima...

Guidelines for simulation exercises on early warning systems for weather induced risks by @CIMA www.preventionweb.net/publication/...

France’s FR-Alert: The role of mobile network operators in Early Warning Systems by @GSMA www.preventionweb.net/publication/...

How 1.5 million km of undersea internet cables can double up as an earthquake and tsunami warning system theconversation.com/how-1-5-mill...

How to ensure inclusive early warning early action? Good practices and local innovations from Eastern Nepal that leave no one behind www.preventionweb.net/publication/...

Flash droughts: Why speed, not scarcity, is the new systemic risk: www.cfr.org/articles/fla...

Pacific Disaster Center, Twilio.org, and UMBC help strengthen early warnings and landslide risk awareness in Colombia - www.pdc.org/pdc-twilio-c...

From FitzRoy's barometers to impact-based phone alerts: how weather warnings have evolved across the UK and Ireland A look the fascinating history of UK and Irish weather warnings as Met Eireann moves away from county based areas later this year www.netweather.tv/weather-fore...

Extreme Heat Deaths Must Be Avoided: by Avoidable Deaths Network. 'Extreme heat deaths are not acts of nature. They are acts of neglect, when warning exists, solutions exist, and yet protection does not. Every life lost to heat is an avoidable loss' www.avoidable-deaths.net/2026/03/28/e...

First Africa Climate–Health Desk launched by ACMAD, WHO & WMO. As extreme heat & other climate and health hazards intensify across the continent, the new Desk is designed to translate & transmit life-saving climate intelligence to reach key decision-makers climahealth.info/africa-clima...

Hearing the call: How Timor-Leste is reaching the "last mile" with Early Warnings by @UNDRR www.preventionweb.net/news/hearing...

Collaborative community-based early warning systems – Solutions brief by Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance @ZCRAlliance www.preventionweb.net/publication/...

Satellite study of 2.2 million thunderstorms shows how to predict their formation - findings by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), published in Nature, are set to improve the certainty about the location of upcoming storms on hot days www.preventionweb.net/news/satelli...

🚀If you missed our recent launch of the UCL Warning Database launch event, you can watch it again on our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s74m... 🔗You can access the database free here: ucl-wrc.github.io/ucl-warning-...

Community rain monitoring helps disaster preparedness: india.mongabay.com/2026/01/comm...

Malawi mobilizes government and community commitment to early warnings www.preventionweb.net/news/malawi-...

A little TEST message can go a long way...https://www.thewarnroom.com/post/a-little-test-message-can-go-a-long-way by Jeannette Sutton from The Warn Room

Quantifying the added value of impact-based warnings for flash flood monitoring using innovative multi-source impact data www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... The study examines the performance of impact-based flash-flood early warning systems compared with traditional hazard-based approaches.

How to ensure inclusive early warning early action? Good practices and local innovations from Eastern Nepal that leave no one behind preparecenter.org/wp-content/u... This policy paper examines how inclusive early warning and early action systems can be strengthened in Eastern Nepal.

France’s FR-Alert: The role of mobile network operators in Early Warning Systems www.gsma.com/solutions-an... by @GMSA

Beyond warnings and shelters: Local institutions and trust build cyclone resilience in Bangladesh www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Early Warnings for All intiative (EW4All): January 2026 updates www.preventionweb.net/news/early-w...

Flash droughts: Why speed, not scarcity, is the new systemic risk www.preventionweb.net/news/flash-d...

Japan’s early warning system: The role of mobile network operators www.gsma.com/solutions-an... by @GSMA

Bridging science and community: exploring pathways to develop community-based lightning early warning systems in Bangladesh www.preventionweb.net/publication/...

Why do disasters still happen, despite early warnings? Because systems are built to wait for certainty theconversation.com/why-do-disas... via @ConversationUK by @Jeff Da Costa