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(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 [...]

A new UN report is flagging increased risks to health from climate change and highlights the need for the world [...]

By the Climate Centre (This is the second of two stories on the drought in Kenya that include aerial footage [...]

By the Climate Centre (This story is the first of two on the drought in Kenya and people’s struggle to [...]

The ‘International Conference on Climate Risk Management’ ended today in Nairobi. The meeting will inform the next assessment report on the [...]

A ‘rapid analysis’ released last week by scientists with the World Weather Attribution (WWA) programme looks at the influence of [...]

In the Philippines, local government is legally required to produce plans for climate action, known as ‘LCCAPs’, for administrative areas; [...]

(This story is a press release from the Kenya Red Cross Society. It appeared first earlier today on the National [...]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the website of the Thomas Reuters Foundation.) In the scorching 40-degree Celsius heat of [...]

(This story appeared first on Friday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The Climate Centre reported on both [...]

Climate science research often springs surprises. Humanitarian agencies like the Red Cross respond by correcting their course. Sometimes, however, on-the-ground [...]

A new drone shoot by the Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) has illustrated the climate-related challenge facing the drought-affected north, [...]

The IFRC Friday convened a webinar on geoengineering and the implications for the humanitarian sector attended by some 600 people [...]

The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre yesterday sent out invitations to an international scientific meeting in Nairobi on climate-risk [...]

(This story appeared first earlier today on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The IFRC press release on its [...]

The Togolese and German Red Cross, the Climate Centre and other partners yesterday shared in the ‘Edge of Government Award’ [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Nairobi on Friday.) Prolonged and worsening drought conditions across Somalia, Ethiopia [...]

With temperatures in the latest potentially lethal heatwave forecast to remain in the mid-40s Celsius this weekend, the Australian Red [...]

(This story appeared first Tuesday on the ECMWF website. It has been edited here for length.) A collaboration between scientists [...]

The world’s wetlands – natural buffers against storms, floods and droughts – are being lost at a rate of one [...]

(This story appeared first on the IFRC news site on Friday and has been edited slightly here for length. KRCS [...]

The UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID) yesterday published a new strategy to focus on economic development in the [...]

Two more countries – in the southern hemisphere on opposite sides of the Pacific rim – have reported modern-era temperature [...]

Europe is facing a future of rising sea levels and worse heatwaves, floods, droughts and storms under climate change, the [...]

With about half of Kenya now affected by drought, the Secretary General of the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), Dr [...]

Using data compiled by US and British agencies, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) yesterday confirmed 2016 was the hottest year [...]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.) Governments need to step up efforts in [...]

Europe’s severe cold wave, which last week led the IFRC to urge people across the continent to protect themselves against [...]

Extreme-weather events are now the top global risk in terms of ‘likelihood’ over the next ten years, according to the [...]

(This story, edited slightly here for length, first appeared on the IFRC news site on Friday.) A three-year project to [...]

The Fagnavodrevo project in Madagascar’s north-west Sofia region is being implemented by the Malagasy Red Cross (MRC) and supported by [...]

IT SHOULD BE an uncontroversial statement of fact that individuals and organizations with a stake in the humanitarian impacts of [...]

This is our snapshot of the climate-related humanitarian events of 2016, through the eyes of the Red Cross Red Crescent [...]

A new collection of studies highlights the role of climate change and the strong El Niño on individual extreme events [...]

(This story appeared first earlier today on the International Federation’s news site.) The German government – a major backer of forecast-based [...]

The forecast-based financing (FbF) project in Peru – implemented by the Peruvian Red Cross and supported by the German Federal [...]

The Dutch Foreign Minister, Bert Koenders, yesterday said water- and climate-related security problems belong on the UN Security Council’s agenda [...]

The IFRC’s forecasting partners at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) now say oceanic and atmospheric conditions [...]

A inter-agency forum in the Philippine capital, Manila, on forecast-based financing (FbF) and emergency preparedness for climate risks has called [...]

(This feature story appeared first last week on the website of the World Bank. It has been edited here for [...]

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC in Marrakech and Geneva on Friday. It has been edited [...]

The head of the IFRC’s Africa region, Dr Fatoumata Nafo-Traore, told the International Federation’s principal side-event at the COP 22 [...]