By the Climate CentreAs the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction ended in Geneva on Friday, IFRC Secretary General Jagan [...]

By the Climate Centre “Unprecedented ocean warming engulfed the South-West Pacific” last year – a region where more than half [...]

By the Climate Centre World Weather Attribution climate scientists studying the extreme rainfall that hit eastern Australia late last month, [...]

By the Climate Centre (Read more about the IFRC’s and National Societies’ advocacy at the GPDRR in this story, posted [...]

By the IFRC (A version of this story appeared first on the IFRC website earlier today; it has been edited [...]

By Ramiz Khan, Climate Centre The western Nepalese city of Dhangadhi, that suffers relentless yearly heatwaves of more than 40°C  [...]

By the Climate Centre Extreme heat is a persistent and growing threat around the world as global warming increases the [...]

By the IFRC (This story appeared first on the IFRC website yesterday. It has been edited here for length.) A [...]

By Fleur Monasso, Climate Centre, Braga, PortugalLast week, walking the cobbled streets of the northern Portuguese cathedral city of Braga, [...]

By the ICRC (This story appeared first on the ICRC website last month. It has been edited here for length.) [...]

By Karine Zoghby, Climate Centre, ParisTwenty-four professionals from across the Middle East and North Africa met in Dubai late last [...]

By the World Meteorological Organization (This story is a World Meteorological Organization press release issued earlier today in Addis Ababa [...]

By Florence Pichon, Climate Centre, Bangkok What happens when an early warning is sounded and heard but there’s no money [...]

By Olivia Acosta, IFRC (This story appeared first on the IFRC website last week.) Whether it’s extreme winter of Mongolia [...]

By the Climate Centre IFRC-DREF has raised very nearly half a million Swiss francs for emergency response in Bolivia where [...]

By the Climate Centre IFRC Secretary General Jagan Chapagain has said there is “no greater threat facing humanity than the [...]

By the Climate Centre (2 May update: IFRC-DREF has now issued a humanitarian grant worth just over 600,000 Swiss francs [...]

By the Climate Centre There was a striking east-west contrast in climate conditions last year, with extremely dry and often [...]

A finding that the “extraordinary” spring heatwave in Central Asia, driven by climate change and 4°C hotter than the pre-industrial [...]

By the IFRC (This story is an IFRC press release issued last Thursday in Beijing, Kuala Lumpur and Geneva. It [...]

By the Climate Centre Vanishing glaciers, record-breaking hurricanes and wildfires, drought and floods – “from the Andes to the Amazon” [...]

By Rohan Laik, ICRC (This article appeared first on the ICRC website last Saturday – it has been edited slightly [...]

By the Climate Centre Celebrations organized by national weather services for World Meteorological Day were today Monday taking place worldwide, [...]

By Caren Mialy Ramanantoanina, Communication and Humanitarian Diplomacy Officer, IFRC Indian Ocean Islands Cluster Delegation, Antananarivo On the front line [...]

by Roop Singh, Carolina Pereira Marghidan, Luciana Escobar and Cale Johnstone (This article appeared first last week on the website [...]

By the Finnish Red CrossThis is an edit of an article that first appeared last Thursday on the website of [...]

By the Climate Centre A week-long plenary meeting of the IPCC to finalize the road map for its seventh assessment [...]

By the Climate Centre Government entities in Europe were this week invited to take part in a voluntary survey ahead [...]

By the Climate Centre The IFRC on Friday welcomed last week’s announcement by the Green Climate Fund of new worldwide [...]

The Afghan Red Crescent has sunk ten new wells (01:15) fitted with solar-powered pumps for communities in Herat and Samangan [...]

By the Climate Centre The Somali Red Crescent has now activated the early action protocol for drought that was published [...]

By the Climate Centre The global average temperature last month was 1.75°C above the pre-industrial level, and January was the [...]

By the Climate Centre IFRC Secretary General Jagan Chapagain has said that recovery from the barrage of six back-to-back storms [...]

By the Climate CentreClimate change worsened the Los Angeles wildfires by reducing rainfall, drying out vegetation, and increasing the overlap [...]

By the Climate Centre UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organization this week launched the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, proclaimed [...]

By the Climate Centre The timely use of weather and climate information by the Red Cross Red Crescent and other [...]

By Liz Stephens and Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Climate Centre science team The immediate causes of actual fires are often associated with [...]

By the Climate Centre Hundreds of American Red Cross workers are now helping California residents fleeing from massive and fast-moving [...]

By the Climate CentreDengue fever is surging throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, with a more than 300 per cent [...]

By the Climate Centre The IFRC Global Plan 2025, launched in mid-December, sets out in detail the scale of the [...]

By the Climate Centre The impacts of climate change gripped the world in 2024, with “cascading impacts from mountain peaks [...]

By the Climate CentreThe IFRC this week announced it was launching an emergency appeal worth 10 million Swiss francs to [...]

By the Climate Centre (A look back at the year’s main events through the eyes of the Climate Centre news service.) [...]

By the Climate Centre The French Red Cross said in a press release yesterday that the four priorities of its [...]

By the Climate Centre Climate change intensified the six typhoons that struck the Philippines over about a month in October [...]

By the Climate Centre The fourth Red Cross Red Crescent youth and climate summit was held online yesterday, attracting more [...]

By the Climate Centre The highly respected South African practitioner and scientist Professor Debra Roberts – who was co-chair of [...]

By the Climate Centre(A British Red Cross survey published this week shows only two in five people believe their community [...]