This was already on the table 10 years ago in Geneva UNDRR. Lack of political will is increasingly devastating. #UKflooding #flooding #preparedness www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

National UK #EmergencyAlert in London not covered @vodafonegroup.bsky.social ?

#WildFire devastation 💔 near Whitby yesterday, an invaluable natural moor landscape lost. Talking to locals, why does declaring a major incident take so long to leverage resources? The community, farmers and firefighters were amazing but #preparedness and response must adapt to #drought #heatwave

London map of water fountains. Bookmark the link, handy for #heatwaveuk #prepared 🥵💧👍 share.google/5qzH4TMsf5Pq...

Exploring King's Lynn. That small plaque marks the high tide level 5Dec 2013 #UKflooding

The time to upgrade your personal #preparedness is now. Understand your risks, assess vulnerabilities , sign up for alerts, make a plan, rehearse, communicate, network and more. Hone in like a pro with expert, personalised guidance. Find out more: blueskyresilience.co.uk #ReadyForAnything #Coaching

Nights are warming even faster than days as carbon pollution drives global heating. 🌡️ Hot nights make it harder for people to recover from daytime heat & is eroding sleep globally. More: Climate Change's Influence on 'Sleepless Nights': www.climatecentral.org/report/sleep...

An important listen. Great to see 'The Wargame' out. #resilience #preparedness #EmergencyPlanning

Lovely to hear @lucygobag.bsky.social "s voice through BBC4 this morning. If you've not tuned in yet, add it to your playlist www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #preparedness #resilience #understandRisk

SPEECHLESS BEFORE / AFTER #BLATTEN The magnitude of destruction after the 3:24 pm collapse of Birch Glacier is immense! 😱 All the forest has been razed and the ice/wood/debris dammed the Lonza river 🌊 Some buildings of Blatten are buried 🏠 📷 Pomona

EM and DRR colleagues must see this! #preparedness #DisasterRiskReduction

West Nile virus detected in UK mosquitoes for first time #health #preparedness www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just got this #emergencyalert on my Swiss app: total evacuation because of expected #landslip #rockfall #preparedness

14.5.2025 "The blackout in Spain and Portugal reminded me of the need to include cash." When the power's off, your debit or credit card is just a piece of plastic. #Prepare #Resilience #CivilDefence www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Update: UNBELIEVABLE ALMOST 27 DEGREES IN ICELAND Climatic history rewritten. And sadly, another terrible failure by all models, none of which saw 24C+ in Iceland for this warm episode, although it was obvious it was going to be historic and much warmer than that.

Timely release of the #London Surface Water Strategy yesterday. With current #drought conditions and a changing climate with more extreme #rainstorms and #flooding this is urgent for this summer and going forward. Read at www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s... #DisasterRiskReduction #FloodReady

.. tiny particles produced by #wildfires can travel thousands of miles and are known to be more toxic than urban #airpollution, due to higher concentrations of chemicals that cause inflammation www.theguardian.com/environment/... #health

"..customers have been told by government they will be fined £1,000 if they break a hosepipe ban. Yet again, the public will bear the costs of a failing water industry.” #droughtUK www.theguardian.com/environment/...

That's Saturday evening sorted: "Families like ours" a meditation on humanity and coping. #resilience #flooding

Blackouts can happen anywhere’: how power systems worldwide can collapse www.theguardian.com/business/202... #preparedness

What is the role of imagination in flood disaster preparedness? My latest post looks at important research by Joy Ommer and others on how a lack of imagination contributed to the impacts of the 2021 floods in Europe: floodskinner.games/2025/05/01/t...

If you find mosquitoes in Scotland please report them for our Mosquito Scotland project @mosquitoscotland.bsky.social! @ukceh.bsky.social

With the temperature at Kew Gardens reaching 28.0 °C and still climbing, it is now officially the warmest start to May on record for the UK The previous May 1st record high temperature was 27.4 °C at Lossiemouth in Scotland in 1990 🌡️

ASIAN HEAT WAVE The extraordinary heat is moving East. Records in MONGOLIA and SIBERIA Minimum of +11.8C at Olgi 1700m asl in Mongolia highlands. Maxes up to +31C in Siberia ! Next days insane unbelievable heat in CHINA with 40/42C in the North and nights up to 30C

Wow! Huge power outage in Spain/Portugal. Just managed to pull this from the Spanish grid operator's website before it timed out. Demand cratered from 25GW to less than 10GW in an instant. 🔌💡

Spain hit by #blackout after massive power outage, with Portugal also reportedly affected www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... #BlackSky

Lithuanian capital #Vilnius unveils invasion evacuation plan www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #preparedness #lithuania #readyforanything

Flood resilience in #Oxford - listen: oxfordfloodalliance.org.uk/2025/04/24/b... #flooding #preparedness

#BuildingResilience needs better understanding and comms! The Suffolk companies which have admitted dumping soil in Iken believed they were “helping the local community”, a court was told. www.eadt.co.uk/news/2511043... #flooding

Pandemics, pathogens and being prepared: why the work to identify emerging threats never stops www.theguardian.com/global-devel... #prepareness #health #pandemic

These are critical for wildland fire potential outlooks, which allow the fire community to plan & prepare. We're about to be driving around with a black-painted windshield and without air bags or seat belts--have your personal evac plan ready.

Massive 100cm+ #snow closes some resorts www.snow-forecast.com/whiteroom/ma... #France #severeweather

Europe #drought monitor.

EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE A Summer day with >40C in Libya,>30C in Albania and Serbia,>28C in Central Europe with records of warm nights This is peanuts to what's coming:30C possible in Poland and 28C in the Baltic countries with full summer nights as well. Records will fall by hundreds

#Wildfires are devastating, and sadly we're likely to see more and more #ClimateEmergency

36 years ago, the Hillsborough disaster. Huge betrayal of the justice system for the survivors and families, listen: open.spotify.com/episode/5wPP...

Us attorney general directed to block laws addressing carbon emissions, hours after orders to increase coal production are issued www.theguardian.com/us-news/live... ##ClimateEmergency #preparedness

Are we entitled to nature? Is it our human right? #ClimateEmergency www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Well done @theguardian.com to promote #ReadyForAnything personal #preparedness without spin! www.instagram.com/share/reel/B...

With staff reductions, $1 credit card limits, cancellations of contracts, destruction of the National Weather Service, & a host of other bad decisions, this map points to a long PL5 summer/fall with diminished firefighting capacity. So, prepare for an evac now & go when the notice comes. Just go.

Did you know about 2 million people in the UK use telecare devices? Items like personal alarms, fall detectors and remote health monitoring devices may be affected by the #DigitalSwitchover. Raise awareness with our downloadable partner toolkit ⬇️ https://orlo.uk/BWxeo

The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/

Thinning Arctic sea ice is leading to changes in the Beaufort Gyre that threaten to release huge volumes of freshwater into the North Atlantic. Freshwater input is a serious threat to the stability of the AMOC. www.gu.se/en/news/thin... #climatechange #AMOC #arctic

A brilliant step today towards #DisasterRiskReduction in #London, informing and empowering communitites. #Preparedness is key!

#Heatwave in southern #Europe.. and it's only just barely April. Summer 2025 will be another severe #ClimateEmergency year.

SEISMIC ALERT: MYANMAR (BURMA) 28 MARCH 2025 06:20 UTC 7.7 MW The following preliminary information is available for this earthquake: LAT/LONG : 22.013° North / 95.922° East DEPTH : 10 km MAGNITUDE : 7.7 Mw Epicentre is around 15 km WNW of Mandalay and 250 km north of Naypyitaw.

The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted www.theguardian.com/environment/... #BuildBackBetter #DisasterRiskReduction

Good to see the EU #ReadyForAnything #Preparedness Strategy being carried @theguardian.com UK Emergency Planners have been running #30days30waysUK since 2015 to boost personal resilience. September is Preparedness Month.

Renew Europe MEPs Call for EU-Wide Crisis #Preparedness Guide to be sent to all European households. www.reneweuropegroup.eu/news/2025-03...

#CNI management under scrutiny: why #Heathrow shut when (apparently) there was enough power will be one of the key questions for the enquiry. We'll know more in 6 weeks. www.gov.uk/government/n...