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The Partners for Resilience alliance – in a joint statement today shortly after the annual UN climate talks got underway [...]

More than 20 participants from National Societies and IFRC offices across the Asia Pacific region attended a training workshop on [...]

One of the world’s most widely respected medical journals, The Lancet, yesterday published research showing that rising temperatures caused by [...]

The IFRC today released nearly a third of a million dollars for humanitarian relief by the Indian Red Cross Society [...]

Nearly 40 young volunteers from 15 branches of the Guatemala Red Cross (GRC) last week took part in a Y-Adapt [...]

(This opinion piece appeared first earlier today on the IRIN news site. It was timed to coincide with the Climate [...]

(The first part of this story, edited slightly here for length and time reference, appeared as an IFRC press release Wednesday.) [...]

Thirteen British universities and other agencies met in London on Tuesday to launch a series of ‘catalyst research projects’ within [...]

The UN Special Adviser on the Sahel, Ibrahim Thiaw, Monday described Africa’s Sahel region as “arguably one of the most [...]

The IFRC last week issued an emergency grant of humanitarian cash of just over US$ 250,000 to help the Afghan [...]

The Climate Resilience Roadshow initiative expanded its consultations to Africa last week with an event at the University of Nairobi’s [...]

The Climate Centre this week represented the IFRC at a workshop in Geneva aimed at helping the farm sector globally [...]

(A version of this story appeared first as a press release earlier today on the IFRC website.) Millions of people [...]

A new Global Commission on Adaptation has been formally launched at an event in The Hague by world leaders gathered [...]

The 4th Pacific Islands Outlook Forum (PICOF) took place last week in Nadi, Fiji, bringing together national meteorological services and [...]

IFRC Secretary General Elhadj As Sy today told the historic ‘Climate Science and Humanitarian Dialogue’ in Geneva that for many [...]

A panel of international scientists specializing in various fields linked to climate risk gathered at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam earlier this [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Geneva. Its month-long  #ForOurKids media and digital campaign, profiling [...]

The Haitian Red Cross last Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of the Environment to set up [...]

(In these photo stories gathered by the IFRC's Rosemarie North local women talk about what keeps them awake at night now.) Early [...]

The German Red Cross yesterday welcomed at least 170 humanitarian, development and technical specialists to Berlin for the 6th global [...]

Disaster managers from Pacific Red Cross National Societies this week held their annual forum in Fiji’s RakiRaki Town, where discussions [...]

The UN, the World Bank, the ICRC and the world’s leading technology firms Sunday convened a public forum to review [...]

(A version of this story appeared earlier today on the website of the International Institute for Environment and Development.)  Registration [...]

Experts from the governments of Ecuador and Peru, their specialist agencies, and the two Red Cross National Societies met in [...]

A groundbreaking short-course on disaster risk launched last week by a consortium of 12 African universities in recognition of a [...]

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC earlier today jointly in Manila and Kuala Lumpur; currency amounts [...]

Red Cross staff and volunteers on opposite sides of the world were this weekend engaged in a maximum effort to [...]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres this week warned the world risks “missing the point where we can avoid runaway climate change”, [...]

A supplementary session of UN climate talks on a global rule-book for implementing the Paris Agreement ended in Bangkok yesterday [...]

(This story appeared first earlier this week on the website of the Finnish Red Cross. It has been edited slightly [...]

At an after-dark street market in Saint-Denis, the administrative centre of Réunion, the French Red Cross referee counts down in [...]

(This story is an unofficial translation of a report that appeared in French late last month on the website of [...]

(Sanne Hogesteeger travelled to India as part of a visit to Partners for Resilience project sites in Odisha and Gujarat [...]

(This story appeared first on Friday on the SERVIR Global website. It has been edited slightly here for length.) NASA [...]

“ECEAUH has identified the lack of waste disposal as one of Haiti’s most serious environmental concerns, and while it can [...]

(This story appeared first on the IFRC website on Monday.)  Hundreds of thousands of people in India have been forced [...]

(This story appeared first earlier today on the IFRC news site.) Millions of people are being put at risk as [...]

By Maarten van Aalst, Director, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre For those of us working on the humanitarian impacts [...]

Ecuador’s National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (INAMHI*) Monday presented the country’s Red Cross society with a symbolic award in recognition [...]

The Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) last Friday became the latest National Society to sign a memorandum of understanding with its [...]

Official media in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) say the government has declared a state of emergency because [...]

The new annual State of the Climate report from an international group of some 500 scientists says 2017 was – [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Geneva and Budapest.) Spain and Portugal could face their [...]

(This story is a press release that appeared first on the website of the Australian Red Cross, edited slightly here [...]

Three intense weather systems in five days have caused floods in the Philippines affecting nearly 2 million people, the IFRC [...]

The Greek authorities this weekend raised to 88 the number of people who died in the wildfire in the coastal [...]

The Swedish Red Cross says a combination of very little rain and hot weather has placed many parts of the [...]

(This story appeared first earlier today on the IFRC news site.) By day Tabitha Berg (photo) is the Cook Islands [...]

The IFRC yesterday released nearly US$ 400,000 from its Disaster Relief Emergency Fund to aid relief and recovery efforts on [...]

(This story is a press release issued by the WWA partnership on Friday, along with a technical summary of the [...]