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‘Seasonal forecasts’ that make general statements about above- or below-average total rainfall over the course of a season are not [...]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), meeting in Montreal, last week finalized the outline of its next scientific assessment [...]

The global UK-supported programme known as ‘BRACED’ that builds resilience in parts of the Sahel, East Africa and Asia badly [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued yesterday in Geneva and Panama City. The International Federation also issued a [...]

(This story and report from Haiti appeared first earlier today on the IFRC website.) Red Cross societies across the Caribbean [...]

A case study published recently by the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) highlights partnership aspects of the inter-agency programme for [...]

The Togolese Red Cross (TRC) yesterday carried out its second humanitarian distribution in two weeks under forecast-based financing (FbF), as [...]

‘Hurricane Harvey and the inevitable question of climate change’ ran the headline in the Washington Post yesterday; the article itself [...]

A new study using NASA satellite technology that tracks changes in landscapes over time finds ecosystems took progressively longer to [...]

(Dr Fatoumata Nafo-Traore is head of the IFRC’s Africa region. This opinion piece was first published this month by Project [...]

After heavy seasonal rainfall the Togolese Red Cross (TRC) this week began distributing ‘Aquatabs’ – water purification tablets – as [...]

A three-day ‘training of trainers’ workshop at a Haitian Red Cross (HRC) centre in Port-au-Prince was held late last month [...]

Climate Centre specialists this week call for existing social protection systems around the world to be expanded to include “early [...]

(This story appeared first last week on the website of Climate Central. It has been edited slightly here for length. [...]

(This story, together with illustrative graphics and video, appeared first earlier this week on the website of the International Research [...]

The 2017 East Asia Red Cross youth summer camp – attended by around 100 young people from the National Societies [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today jointly in Geneva and Budapest. Please follow the link for [...]

ICRC Director of Operations Dominik Stillhart last month told US senators there has been “no major progress on the twin [...]

The annual international conferences on community-based adaptation organized by the UK-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and partners [...]

(This story is a press release issued yesterday jointly in Colombo and Geneva, and at the IFRC’s Asia-Pacific office in [...]

(This op-ed appeared first on Wednesday on the website of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. Dr Fatoumata Nafo-Traore is [...]

(This story is a KRCS-IFRC press release issued in Nairobi on Monday. A detailed scientific study of the Kenyan drought [...]

The Chinese Red Cross has donated US$100,000 to the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) to assist with its ongoing monsoon [...]

The eleventh international conference on community-based climate adaptation, ‘CBA11’, ending in Kampala last week heard a call for climate action to [...]

(This story appeared first on Friday on the African regional area of the IFRC website.) While most farmers in the [...]

(This story is a press release from US-based Climate Central, coordinators of the World Weather Attribution programme of which the Red Cross [...]

(This story appeared first earlier today on the website of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs; it has [...]

(This story appeared first earlier today on the news site of the IFRC.) IFRC Secretary General Elhadj As Sy today [...]

(This story appeared first on the Thomson Reuters Foundation website on Monday.) With droughts set to become more frequent due [...]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the IFRC news site.) More than 200 volunteers and staff from the Portuguese Red [...]

The Portuguese Red Cross yesterday issued a national emergency appeal to support victims of the Pedrogao Grande forest fire, which [...]

Two weeks after Bangladeshi coastal villagers in the path of Cyclone Mora got a humanitarian cash grant under German-supported forecast-based [...]

Partners for Resilience (PfR) in Uganda late last month hosted a workshop in Kampala aimed at promoting participation by civil [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur.) South-east Bangladesh is reeling from [...]

They came out of the blue and stopped people in their tracks. In crowded markets, in parks and even at [...]

The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has warned that climate change “far and away” tops a list of global megatrends putting [...]

(This story first appeared last week on the IFRC website. Kenya’s drought broke last month with heavy rain across the [...]

‘Early warning for all’ was one of the many humanitarian headlines generated by the 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk [...]

(This story appeared first earlier today on the news site of the IFRC, which reports that thousands of lives have [...]

(When disaster hits, people don’t care whether a climate, disaster or development policy would help. They just want a solution, [...]

(This story appeared first earlier this month on the website of Netherlands-based Wetlands International, one of the five PfR agencies. [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today.) With the needs of communities affected by disasters rapidly outpacing [...]

African scientists say their continent – already one of the warmest land masses on Earth – is warming faster than [...]

An embryonic new phase of the relationship between dam operators and humanitarians concerned with downstream impacts has been welcomed by [...]

The Netherlands Red Cross Society (NLRC) celebrated its 150th anniversary on Monday – World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, [...]

They are the everyday questions that face all inshore fishermen preparing to put to sea in small boats. What is [...]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the IRI website. It has been edited slightly here. A detailed article written by [...]

“You can’t hear the sound of one hand clapping. Working together is the only way,” says Fatemeh Bibak, Head of the [...]

Although they emphasize the difficulty of forecasting at this time of year, the chances of another El Niño event later [...]

A scoping meeting by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to prepare for its next assessment of the global [...]

A Red Cross side event at next month’s World Hydropower Congress in Addis Ababa organized by the IFRC, the Climate [...]