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More than 250 people attended the 13th international conference on community-based adaptation to climate change (CBA13) in Addis Ababa last week to discuss how [...]

The challenges of reaching the ‘last mile’ and building the partnerships needed to address them were front and centre in [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued on Wednesday.) As the flooding emergency in Iran worsens, the world’s largest [...]

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

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC in Kabul, Kuala Lumpur and Geneva earlier today.) Ten million [...]

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC in Beira, Nairobi and Geneva on Monday. It has been [...]

The Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) earlier this year became the first National Society in Africa to roll out the [...]

(A version of this story first appeared earlier today as a press release from the University of Twente in Dutch [...]

Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said Saturday it had “mobilized its full national resources well in advance of tropical cyclones Trevor [...]

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC yesterday in Beira, Nairobi and Geneva. New video of the IFRC Secretary [...]

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC yesterday in Beira, Nairobi and Geneva; it has been edited [...]

(This story is a press release issued earlier today by the IFRC jointly in Beira, Nairobi and Geneva. The latest [...]

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC in Geneva and Nairobi earlier today.) The scale of damage [...]

The IFRC Thursday released US$ 344,000 in cash from its Disaster Relief Emergency Fund to help Mozambique address the impacts [...]

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC in Nairobi and Geneva yesterday.) Mozambique is on high alert [...]

The evidence is irrefutable: Humour can help improve communication, build relationships, enhance problem solving, and enable difficult conversations.  Humanitarian work requires creative [...]

A new technical report on heatwaves believed to be the first of its kind commissioned by the United States Agency [...]

The Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) and the Indian government’s Earth System Science Organization umbrella agency that includes the country’s [...]

The British Met Office today confirmed that new one-day temperature records for February and winter have been set for England, [...]

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

(This story appeared first on the IFRC website yesterday. It has been edited here for time references.) An estimated 574,000 [...]

The IFRC reported Tuesday that the first early-action protocol of the forecast-based component of its DREF emergency fund is now [...]

A CNN International Edition report says a community-resilience programme run by a partnership of the Zimbabwe and British Red Cross [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Suva, Kuala Lumpur and Geneva.) With the South Pacific [...]

Partners for Resilience agencies late last month hosted a week-long seminar for nearly 40 journalists from Ethiopia and Uganda in [...]

In what it describes as “a clear sign of continuing long-term climate change associated with record atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse [...]

This year’s Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships (HNPW) week in Geneva Wednesday heard calls from senior panellists for the refining and expansion [...]

The Australian Red Cross yesterday said its emergency teams on the north coast of Queensland were continuing to assist people [...]

A landmark study released Monday that brought together 350 researchers and policy experts from more than 20 countries has found [...]

(A version of this story appeared earlier today as an IFRC press release.) The IFRC is calling on people to check on [...]

Scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) who cover impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change met last [...]

The ICRC’s Permanent Observer to the UN, Robert Mardini, Friday told an open Security Council meeting on climate and conflict [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Ulaanbaatar and Geneva.) An outbreak of Influenza A (H1N1) [...]

The first of a 2019 series of high-level round tables on the interconnected vulnerabilities and impacts of climate and conflict [...]

The UN humanitarian chief, Mark Lowcock, has proposed expanding three approaches to funding to close what he calls the “stubborn [...]

Arguing that climate change “poses an acute and increasing threat to global development”, the World Bank Group yesterday announced it [...]

Meteoalarm red alerts for dangerously heavy snowfall or avalanches were in force Monday for Alpine regions of Austria, southern Germany, [...]

The Red Cross Red Crescent across the Asia Pacific region and in the Middle East have been helping people prepare [...]

The UN yesterday issued an official outcome document from the Marrakech Partnership round table on resilience held at COP 24 [...]

Humanitarian agencies surveyed by the Thomson Reuters Foundation have said they are bracing for “a challenging new year” tackling conflicts from [...]

(This article appeared frst in the print edition of the latest Red Cross Red Crescent magazine, jointly published by the [...]

Amid widespread scientific agreement that with climate change potentially lethal heatwaves are starting earlier and ending later, the first-ever international [...]

With the southern-hemisphere summer approaching its peak, the Australian Red Cross (ARC) is again warning the public to prepare for [...]

(A version of this story appeared first on the IFRC news site late last month) Despite a recent diplomatic thaw, [...]

A look back at our engagement with the climate-related humanitarian events of 2018 through the eyes of the Climate Centre news service. [...]

Drought is a tricky hazard to prepare for in the Pacific – a silent, slow-onset disaster whose impacts may appear [...]

An IFRC report launched last week at the ISDR-Asia Partnership Forum in Bangkok says migration and displacement linked to the [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today.) The IFRC today welcomed the prospect of what the UN [...]

New research published on Monday, as the second week of UN climate talks in Poland got underway, shows “clear ties [...]

(This story appeared first on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Sunday.) In northern Ghana, where climate change [...]

A round table alongside the climate talks in Poland today heard a wide range of views – including from humanitarians [...]