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Climate scientists from the World Weather Attribution group were this week beginning a study of possible climatic factors behind the [...]

(This story is an ICRC press release issued earlier today in Addis Ababa.) Millions of people in the Horn of [...]

(This story appeared first last month in French and English on the news service of Agence France Presse; it has [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Ulaanbaatar, Geneva and Kuala Lumpur.) Forecasts of an extreme [...]

Official UK data released yesterday says there were just under 900 excess deaths during the summer heatwaves last year – [...]

A British Met Office forecast last month found the global average temperature for the coming year suggests 2020 will again [...]

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

Karimullah (his first name), 30, from Helmand province, is a single father with a six-year-old daughter who now lives in [...]

Senior figures in most of ten international humanitarian agencies, including the IFRC, have listed either climate change and violence against [...]

The last year of the decade saw many intense climate impacts, extreme heat to storms to floods, hitting everyone from [...]

The first national dialogue platform on forecast-based financing in Nepal was held in Kathmandu at the end of November, organized [...]

At the end of a second day of extra time at the COP 25 UN climate talks in Madrid, the [...]

(With ambitious efforts on climate adaptation and climate-smart development, we could reduce the number of people needing help, argues outgoing [...]

(This story appeared first on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation earlier this week.) From young “climate warriors” planning [...]

A joint virtual event from COP 25 in Madrid and the 33rd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red [...]

The 17th annual Development and Climate Days took place in Madrid today, over a single day this year after the [...]

(This story has been edited mainly from today’s IFRC press releases issued in Geneva on the first day of its 2019 General [...]

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC yesterday; it has been edited slightly here for length and [...]

(A longer version of this article and a video to accompany it appeared in the Nepali Times on 22 November; [...]

(A version of this story appeared earlier today on the FbF website of the German Red Cross.) Typhoon Kammuri, known [...]

Two new warnings this week from within the UN system suggest that the world will struggle to meet even the [...]

This year’s Global Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action in Berlin last week gathered more than 200 people from 40 [...]

(This story appeared first on Tuesday on the website Thomson Reuters Foundation.) Kenya will launch its first localized weather-modelling system [...]

New research from 35 global institutions published last week in one of the world’s leading medical journals, The Lancet, has [...]

(An earlier version of this blog was published to coincide with GEO Week 2019: Earth Observations for Disaster Risk Reduction, in Canberra, where the Australian [...]

Two grave warnings with major humanitarian implications published this week and last by international scientists have highlighted the seriousness of [...]

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC jointly in Lusaka, Pretoria and Geneva last Tuesday.) A “catastrophic” [...]

(A version of this story first appeared on the website of the Pacific Meteorological Desk Partnership last Tuesday.) Forging stronger relationships [...]

Nearly 50 million people in Indonesia may have been affected by the country’s long-running drought this year, local media reports [...]

(Dr Michael Charles heads the IFRC Southern Africa Cluster. His article was first published by the Southern Times last month, [...]

The 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI), launched Tuesday by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe, says that while the world has made [...]

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres yesterday called for climate resilience and disaster risk reduction to be at the centre of [...]

At least 130 people from 50 National Societies and two reference centres were this week in the Qatar capital, Doha [...]

The IFRC’s Governing Board (pictured) last week approved the organizations’s new Strategy 2030 that “proposes an urgent shift of leadership [...]

A new rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution (WWA) scientists at the end of last month says the extreme rainfall [...]

The IFRC last month joined forces with TikTok, regarded as the world’s leading social-media platform for short-form video, to engage [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release first issued Friday in Panama City and Geneva.) As dengue spreads rapidly across [...]

The latest in a series of series of background papers commissioned by the Global Commission on Adaptation to inform its [...]

Last week’s Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT) summit at Heidelberg University, Germany gathered more than 200 people from the geographic information system [...]

(The Climate Centre today issued a lay person’s guide in cartoon form to the IPCC oceans report. The IFRC’s own [...]

The much-heralded Risk-informed Early Action Partnership (REAP) intended to protect a billion people in the developing world from extreme weather [...]

(A version of this story appeared earlier today on the PfR website. It has been edited here for length.) Partners [...]

The chief executive of the Australian Red Cross, Judy Slatyer, today said extreme weather events in Australia are becoming more [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in New York.) A new report by the world’s largest [...]

(This story is an IFRC media advisory issued yesterday in New York and Geneva.) The IFRC will launch a new [...]

Climate Centre Director Maarten van Aalst – who is now Professor Dr Van Aalst – on Friday gave his inaugural [...]

IFRC Secretary General Elhadj As Sy yesterday called for greater “political will” to tackle the climate crisis and substantial investment [...]

Disaster managers from 13 Pacific National Societies met in Nadi, Fiji at the end of last month to discuss priorities [...]

The authorities in France and the Netherlands are both reporting significant “excess mortality” during this summer’s heatwaves that set new [...]

Asia-Pacific Climate Week (APCW 2019) ended in Bangkok Friday with agreement on an overarching key message for the UN summit [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today from Geneva.) With access to the battered islands of Abaco [...]