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#WorldMetDay: ‘These temperatures are completely off the scale for March’

23 March 2026

By the Climate Centre A new World Weather Attribution rapid analysis released Friday has found that the heatwave affecting the western United States “would be virtually impossible for the time of year in a world without human-induced climate change”. All-time March records were [...]

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#WorldMetDay: ‘Earth’s climate increasingly unbalanced’, says World Meteorological Organization

#WorldMetDay: ‘Earth’s climate increasingly unbalanced’, says World Meteorological Organization
23 March 2026

By the Climate CentreFor the first time, the WMO’s State of Global Climate 2025, published today, includes the Earth’s energy [...]

#WorldMetDay: Red Cross Red Crescent announces major report on making early action for climate-related hazards future fit

#WorldMetDay: Red Cross Red Crescent announces major report on making early action for climate-related hazards future fit
23 March 2026

By the Climate Centre (The IFRC is global lead of the fourth pillar of the UN’s Early Warnings For All [...]

Introducing impact-based forecasting for early action in Colombia

Introducing impact-based forecasting for early action in Colombia
16 March 2026

By Juan Bazo, Climate Centre, Bogota The Climate Centre last week facilitated a two-day workshop (pictured) representing the start of [...]

Blog: Experiences with the language and context of warnings

Blog: Experiences with the language and context of warnings
16 March 2026

By Chloe Crothers (Chloe Crothers, an American, has interned with the Climate Centre since September 2025 in Sweden where she [...]

Study: Record downpours that caused lethal landslides in Brazil will worsen with further warming

Study: Record downpours that caused lethal landslides in Brazil will worsen with further warming
12 March 2026

By the Climate Centre (This is an adapted version of a press release issued by World Weather Attribution earlier today.) [...]

Deteriorating food crisis in Cameroon affecting millions gets scant international attention

Deteriorating food crisis in Cameroon affecting millions gets scant international attention
10 March 2026

By the Climate Centre (This story is based on an IFRC press release issued in Yaounde, Nairobi and Geneva earlier [...]

WDR 2026: Climate change, vaccine hesitancy, migration breeding grounds for harmful information

WDR 2026: Climate change, vaccine hesitancy, migration breeding grounds for harmful information
8 March 2026

By the Climate CentreThe IFRC’s World Disasters Report 2026, published last Thursday, says “climate change, vaccine hesitancy and migration” are [...]

ICRC: Prolonged drought pushes 6.5 million Somalis toward acute food insecurity

ICRC: Prolonged drought pushes 6.5 million Somalis toward acute food insecurity
5 March 2026

By the ICRC (This is a version of a story released by the ICRC on Tuesday; it has been slightly edited [...]

After near-record rain in parts, every UK household must be ready to act – British Red Cross

After near-record rain in parts, every UK household must be ready to act – British Red Cross
27 February 2026

By the Climate Centre The British Red Cross is calling for better public information to ensure more people know what [...]

Climate adaptation in Europe still ‘insufficient and fragmented’
24 February 2026

By the Climate CentreClimate change is not a distant risk for Europe but is already “imposing substantial human, economic and [...]

Climate adaptation in Europe still ‘insufficient and fragmented’

Blog: Making adaptation in Europe ‘meaningful, actionable, durable’

Blog: Making adaptation in Europe ‘meaningful, actionable, durable’
20 February 2026

By Fleur Monasso, Tesse de Boer, Anka Stankovic, Climate Centre, Netherlands The European climate adaptation community met in Budapest last [...]

Art and a children’s book for coastal adaptation and resilience in Grenada

Art and a children’s book for coastal adaptation and resilience in Grenada
18 February 2026

By the Climate Centre The Grenada Red Cross is creatively supporting two local communities, Woburn and Telescope, in strengthening resilience [...]

Madagascar faces compounding crises and major damage to its main port after second cyclone in ten days

Madagascar faces compounding crises and major damage to its main port after second cyclone in ten days
15 February 2026

By the Climate Centre The IFRC Friday launched a 7.5m Swiss franc emergency appeal for Madagascar, battered by near-consecutive Cyclones [...]

New online library on urban heat

New online library on urban heat
15 February 2026

By the Climate CentreThe Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance, an IFRC partner organization, last week posted an updated Urban Heat Library [...]

Study: Climate change fuels fire weather threatening the world’s oldest trees in Argentina and Chile

Study: Climate change fuels fire weather threatening the world’s oldest trees in Argentina and Chile
11 February 2026

By the Climate CentreThe IFRC last week allocated half a million Swiss francs from its Disaster Response Emergency Fund to [...]

Floods: Cash grant for South Africa follows multimillion emergency appeal for Mozambique

Floods: Cash grant for South Africa follows multimillion emergency appeal for Mozambique
4 February 2026

By the Climate Centre The IFRC this week added South Africa to the list of flooded southern African nations for [...]

ZCRA framework helps Mexican Red Cross strengthen communities’ climate resilience

ZCRA framework helps Mexican Red Cross strengthen communities’ climate resilience
4 February 2026

By Brenda Ávila Flores, Francisco Gabriel Reyes Gil, Jessica Rosales, Karla Hernandez and Daniela Aguilar, Mexican Red Cross (The IFRC [...]

Blog: Early warning for the growing heat-hazard and the social realities behind it

Blog: Early warning for the growing heat-hazard and the social realities behind it
3 February 2026

By Chiara Proietti (Chiara Proietti interned with the Climate Centre between September 2025 and this month. She supported our engagement [...]

January an exceptionally angry month in two hemispheres, says the World Meteorological Organization

January an exceptionally angry month in two hemispheres, says the World Meteorological Organization
30 January 2026

By the Climate CentreIn a special statement today, the WMO says “intense heat and fire, record-breaking cold and snow, devastating [...]

‘The climate crisis is one of our most fundamental responsibilities’

‘The climate crisis is one of our most fundamental responsibilities’
29 January 2026

By the Climate Centre The Chief Executive of the British Red Cross, Beatrice Butsana-Sita, has told an audience in London [...]

INFLOW project for Nile basin sets sights on consolidating impacts this year

INFLOW project for Nile basin sets sights on consolidating impacts this year
27 January 2026

By Liz Stephens, University of Reading and Climate Centre science lead Researchers and partners from the INFLOW project met in [...]

Climate Centre sets out its game plan for coming five years

Climate Centre sets out its game plan for coming five years
26 January 2026

by the Climate Centre Against a backdrop of what it calls the “increasing frequency, intensity and spread of extreme weather [...]

Blog: Simulating social protection as an engine for anticipatory action in Bangladesh

Blog: Simulating social protection as an engine for anticipatory action in Bangladesh
25 January 2026

By Sayanti Sengupta, Climate Centre, and Anita Auerbach, German Red Cross (This story was published first by the Anticipation Hub [...]

‘This is a total transformation of the Australian summer’

‘This is a total transformation of the Australian summer’
23 January 2026

By the Climate CentreAustralia’s Bureau of Meteorology said yesterday that potentially record-breaking heat is going to bring severe to extreme [...]

In a warming Arctic, Norwegian Red Cross ’snow-how’ helps communities prepare for emergencies

In a warming Arctic, Norwegian Red Cross ’snow-how’ helps communities prepare for emergencies
19 January 2026

By the IFRC (This story is an IFRC multimedia feature published last week that also included survival tips from the [...]

The datasets line up: the last 11 years have been the 11 warmest in the modern era – WMO

The datasets line up: the last 11 years have been the 11 warmest in the modern era – WMO
15 January 2026

By the Climate Centre The World Meteorological Organization today confirmed that 2025 was one of the three warmest years on [...]

Malawi Red Cross early action in the face of killer ‘storms, strong winds, flash floods, lightning’

Malawi Red Cross early action in the face of killer ‘storms, strong winds, flash floods, lightning’
13 January 2026

By the Climate Centre Amid the peak phase of the rainy season in Malawi, the government there last week said [...]

Climate impacts, inclusion and livelihoods in the Sahel: the importance of social protection

Climate impacts, inclusion and livelihoods in the Sahel: the importance of social protection
13 January 2026

By Sajanika Sivanu and Sneha Ganguly, Climate Centre The Climate Centre today publishes two studies aimed at improving the use [...]

Red Cross psychosocial support for Australians who again face ‘catastrophic fire danger’

Red Cross psychosocial support for Australians who again face ‘catastrophic fire danger’
11 January 2026

By the Climate CentreThe Australian Red Cross Register.Find.Reunite service was today (Sunday) up and running for four separate fire emergencies [...]

IFRC triples appeal for Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka with storm’s full impact only now becoming clear

IFRC triples appeal for Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka with storm’s full impact only now becoming clear
8 January 2026

By the Climate Centre The IFRC this week nearly tripled to 14 million Swiss francs its emergency appeal for people [...]

Climate Centre news review of 2025

Climate Centre news review of 2025
21 December 2025

By the Climate Centre (A look back at the year’s main events and our engagement with them through the eyes [...]

IFRC unveils 2026 Global Plan centred on local action to address humanitarian need

IFRC unveils 2026 Global Plan centred on local action to address humanitarian need
15 December 2025

By the Climate Centre (The full IFRC Global Plan for 2026 will be published next month; the Climate Centre’s own [...]

Climate scientists see future of ‘supercharged monsoon rainfall’ for Asia

Climate scientists see future of ‘supercharged monsoon rainfall’ for Asia
11 December 2025

By the Climate Centre World Weather Attribution scientists today published the results of a rapid study of Cyclones Ditwah and [...]

‘Anticipatory action closes the gap between “we knew” and “we acted”’

‘Anticipatory action closes the gap between “we knew” and “we acted”’
9 December 2025

By the Climate Centre IFRC Secretary Jagan Chapagain has said anticipatory action remains a top priority for the Red Cross [...]

Comprehensive guide to anticipatory action for IDPs and refugees centred on the MENA region

Comprehensive guide to anticipatory action for IDPs and refugees centred on the MENA region
7 December 2025

By the Climate Centre The Climate Centre today published a comprehensive guide to anticipatory action for displaced people and refugees [...]

Temperatures rising in the Middle East and North Africa at twice the global average, says WMO

Temperatures rising in the Middle East and North Africa at twice the global average, says WMO
5 December 2025

By the Climate Centre The Middle East and North Africa had their hottest year on record in 2024, and the [...]

IFRC emergency fund’s ‘pivotal year’ driven by intensifying climate and complex emergencies

IFRC emergency fund’s ‘pivotal year’ driven by intensifying climate and complex emergencies
4 December 2025

By the Climate CentreThe IFRC’s Disaster Response Emergency Fund described 2024 as a “pivotal year”, with a significant increase in [...]

Millions affected by severe flooding across Asia, with reports of hundreds of deaths

Millions affected by severe flooding across Asia, with reports of hundreds of deaths
2 December 2025

By the IFRC(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Kuala Lumpur and Geneva yesterday.) The IFRC is responding [...]

Ethiopian Red Cross triggers last part of two-stage Early Action Protocol

Ethiopian Red Cross triggers last part of two-stage Early Action Protocol
1 December 2025

By the Climate Centre The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) has now completed activation of both parts of its Early [...]

Reinforcing locally led adaptation: a climate workshop for the French-speaking Indian Ocean region

Reinforcing locally led adaptation: a climate workshop for the French-speaking Indian Ocean region
28 November 2025

By the Climate CentreAs climate impacts intensify across the Indian Ocean, the IFRC and the Climate Centre this week joined [...]

As COP 30 winds up, IFRC calls for ‘a giant leap forward’ on adaptation

As COP 30 winds up, IFRC calls for ‘a giant leap forward’ on adaptation
23 November 2025

By the Climate CentreAs COP 30 closes with what UN organizers are calling a global Mutirão – a Portuguese word [...]

‘Everyone everywhere will have to adapt to climate change’

‘Everyone everywhere will have to adapt to climate change’
18 November 2025

By the Climate Centre Arguing that only through locally led adaptation to climate change (LLA) will vulnerable people feel the [...]

At COP 30, IFRC and The Nature Conservancy present 10-year commitment to resilience and adaptation in the Amazon

At COP 30, IFRC and The Nature Conservancy present 10-year commitment to resilience and adaptation in the Amazon
16 November 2025

(This story is an IFRC press release issued jointly yesterday in Belem, Panama City and Geneva. A Climate Centre story [...]

Study: Deadly floods in eastern Mexico highlight limitations of national climate data

Study: Deadly floods in eastern Mexico highlight limitations of national climate data
14 November 2025

By the Climate Centre Mexico needs better data and a wider network of meteorological stations to understand how climate change [...]

Nature-based solutions are needed to solve the climate crisis

Nature-based solutions are needed to solve the climate crisis
13 November 2025

By Ulrika Modeer, Swedish Red Cross Secretary General, and Gustaf Lind, WWF-Sweden Secretary General (This article was published first on [...]

WMO: Early warning systems reach new heights but critical gaps remain

WMO: Early warning systems reach new heights but critical gaps remain
12 November 2025

By the Climate CentreThe number of countries with multi-hazard early warning systems has reached a record high of 119 and [...]

UNHCR: Three in four people uprooted by conflict live in countries facing high exposure to climate  hazards

UNHCR: Three in four people uprooted by conflict live in countries facing high exposure to climate  hazards
11 November 2025

By the Climate Centre Many of the nearly 120 million people in the world currently uprooted by conflict and their [...]

Blog: GIS links satellite intelligence and humanitarian action

Blog: GIS links satellite intelligence and humanitarian action
10 November 2025

By Olivier Cottray, ESRI (This blog appeared first on the ESRI website. It has been edited here for length.) On [...]

IFRC: Kenya faces climate and humanitarian crisis – but farmers fight back

IFRC: Kenya faces climate and humanitarian crisis – but farmers fight back
9 November 2025

By the Climate CentreReporting that Kenya is “in the grip of a worsening climate and humanitarian crisis,” the IFRC last [...]

Study: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa more intense and destructive

Study: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa more intense and destructive
6 November 2025

Climate change significantly increased wind speeds and rainfall from Hurricane Melissa, according to a new rapid analysis by World Weather [...]