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“Unusually heavy” monsoon rainfall and flooding affecting many parts of Asia has again highlighted the importance of national meteorological and [...]

(This story is an ICRC press release issued earlier today. The new report is accompanied by a photogallery and a [...]

A rise in zoonotic diseases that jump from animal hosts to humans is being driven by degradation of the natural [...]

IFRC writers Friday put forward a three-part framework for ensuring that recovery from the global Covid-19 pandemic leads to a “greener, [...]

The humanitarian implications of droughts are profound and far-reaching, but traditionally the humanitarian role has been to respond to the [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Dhaka, Kuala Lumpur and Geneva.) Urgent early action is [...]

The Climate Centre today launches a new multimedia resource for the humanitarian sector, podcasts, with a detailed look at heatwaves [...]

(This article appeared first on Friday on the Project Syndicate comment website.) The world has been planning for the future [...]

The UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, last week said there is “one crucial condition that must [...]

The International Energy Agency on Thursday presented a three-year plan for economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic that would “revitalise [...]

(A longer version of this article appeared last week as part of a series of blogs on epidemics on the [...]

The IFRC and Climate Centre today released their new City Heatwave Guide for Red Cross Red Crescent Branches, designed as [...]

The global NDC Partnership – launched during COP 22 in Marrakech in 2016 – last week announced the make-up of [...]

(This story summarizes a master’s thesis by Sabrina Desroches which is also a Climate Centre contribution to Nepal’s forecast-based financing [...]

Lack of good historical observations and verifiable climate models as well as a “significant bias in expertise” in favour of [...]

(A version of this story ran first last month on the website of Ireland’s University College Cork; it is also [...]

(A longer version of this story first ran earlier today on the GHHIN website.) An international network of experts on [...]

The World Meteorological Organization says it will later this year issue updated guidance on impact-based forecasting, based on recommendations from [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Nairobi and Geneva on Wednesday, slightly edited here for time references. [...]

Farmers in Uganda’s Otuke district say climate-centred agricultural extension supported by CARE as part of the Partners for Resilience (PfR) [...]

The IFRC has been preparing for a major humanitarian response with Cyclone Amphan – described as one of the strongest [...]

On the Thursday before last, at pretty much the exact moment I was sitting down in the locked-down safety of [...]

An IFRC cartoonathon earlier this month drew more than 150 people from at least 60 countries to “explore transformation and change [...]

IFRC Secretary General Jagan Chapagain today formally invited all National Societies to join the fully virtual Climate:Red Summit on 9 [...]

New research published Friday in the journal Science Advances is believed to be the first to suggest that the sustained [...]

(This story appeared first on Thursday the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.) In the congested slums of Mumbai, coronavirus [...]

The PLACARD project – which is funded by the European Commission as part of its Horizon 2020 programme and closes [...]

A new report on 2019 from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) shows that Asia was [...]

The sixth Pacific Island Climate Outlook Forum (PICOF) was held virtually late last month, ushering in “a new era” for [...]

The new Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID), published last week, says the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) around [...]

The 11th international Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin last week heard a renewed call from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres [...]

Fifty-one new reporting-points – including 24 in Kenya, the first there – came online for African rivers at the end [...]

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres today put forward six climate-related actions to shape recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and turn [...]

(This story appeared first on Thursday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It has been edited slightly here [...]

(This story was updated on 21 April after confirmation of Sir John Houghton’s COVID diagnosis.) Sir John Houghton, the British [...]

The Climate Centre today launches a minisite offering a comprehensive set of tools and assistance for individuals and teams utilizing [...]

New research on climate impacts and global biodiversity published last week in the journal Nature suggests that its collapse could [...]

(This story first ran yesterday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation; it has been edited slightly here for [...]

A series of three new feature-length documentary films on PfR’s work in the Philippines, commissioned by the Netherlands Red Cross, [...]

The UN today launched its Words into Action publication that involved the IFRC as one of its advisory members and includes [...]

The IFRC yesterday issued an “imminent crisis” cash grant of just over 50,000 Swiss francs from its Disaster Relief Emergency [...]

(To help maximize the audience for this crucial Movement appeal we’re cross-posting the joint ICRC-IFRC press release announcing it yesterday [...]

The long-term response to coronavirus “must tackle habitat and biodiversity loss,” according to the Executive Director of the United Nations [...]

United Nations agencies have this year coupled two special days to highlight that one of the biggest impacts of climate [...]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It has been edited slightly here for [...]

(In a blog that appeared first on the Climate Home website last week, IIED Director Andrew Norton argued that if [...]

There are now not one but two very compelling reasons to “fly less”, as the new wisdom is handily summed [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Beira, Nairobi and Geneva.)  It is almost exactly a [...]

A month-long multimedia exhibition graphically illustrating both climate impacts in the developing world and potential solutions offered by the Netherlands-based [...]

The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement late last month published details of its collective ambitions on climate, saying it “has [...]

Climate change increased the chance of the “extreme fire weather” witnessed in Australia over the past few months by at [...]