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Potentially dangerous heatwaves that normally strike once every two decades could become yearly events across 60 per cent of Earth’s [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued yesterday in Pretoria and distributed by the African Press Organization.) The IFRC [...]

With sustained winds of 230 kph and gusts of 325 kph – capable of blowing away houses, uprooting trees and [...]

The current Pacific El Niño phenomenon that has been linked to devastating extreme-weather impacts worldwide has now passed its peak, [...]

The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF says nearly a million children are in need of treatment for “severe acute malnutrition” [...]

The head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Robert Glasser, said yesterday that just under 100 million [...]

World leaders must unite to renew their commitments to humanity and end crisis and reduce vulnerability, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said [...]

(This story, slightly edited here for length, appeared first on the BRACED website. In its own operation for last year’s [...]

The IFRC yesterday launched an appeal worth nearly US$ 2.4m in response to the outbreak of Zika virus to enable [...]

An emergency meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva today declared a “public health emergency of international concern” [...]

The ICRC, International Federation and Devex – a prominent media platform for the global development community – yesterday jointly launched [...]

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) – a leading global provider of early warning and analysis on food [...]

Humanitarian need over the past decade has grown “at a staggering rate,” IFRC Secretary General Elhadj As Sy said on [...]

The IFRC’s Community Preparedness and Risk Reduction Department yesterday announced that the e-learning course Climate Change – an introduction for [...]

The IFRC last week launched an emergency appeal worth US$ 2.2m to enable the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) to [...]

Temperatures in much of the UK in December 2015 were closer to those of the spring months of April and [...]

(This story appeared first last month on the IFRC’s news site. The most recent IFRC update on the El Niño-related [...]

The Geneva-based Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) last month published its first annual report based on three years’ worth of consolidated data [...]

(This is the Climate Centre’s review of highlights of 2015 – a historic year of firsts for climate. More details [...]

To the campaigners who for years lobbied for a global deal on climate, to the officials who pored over the [...]

(This story appeared first last month on the website of the Institute of Development Studies; it has been edited slightly [...]

The European Union has announced it’s contributing €125m to finance emergency response in countries affected by the current El Niño [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued this evening shortly after the historic climate agreement at COP 21 in Paris.) [...]

(This article appeared first yesterday on the Climate Central website; it has been slightly edited here for length.) Last weekend a [...]

(This web story is an abridged version of a longer piece that first appeared on internationaleonline.org.) At the Climate Centre we have [...]

The British Red Cross (BRC) this week launched a major operation in the north-west English counties of Cumbria and Lancashire [...]

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon – summing up the first week of the COP 21 climate talks in Paris [...]

(This blog on the first day of Development and Climate Days in Paris also appears on the CDKN website. Some [...]

The 13th Development & Climate Days (D&C Days) weekend workshop alongside annual UN climate talks got underway in Paris today, centred [...]

(This story appeared first on the news site of ifrc.org.) Nine months have passed since Tropical Cyclone Pam swept through [...]

(This is a joint press release issued simultaneously this morning in the Netherlands and at COP 21 in Paris by the [...]

(This story is a joint statement by the IFRC and the World Food Programme, issued simultaneously as a press release [...]

(This story was first published earlier today as a press release on www.ifrc.org.) As climate negotiators gather at COP 21 [...]

(This story appeared first earlier this week on the IFRC news site. It has been edited here for length.) In recent [...]

In a ground-breaking humanitarian action triggered by a scientific forecast of flood risk, the Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) Friday [...]

(This story appeared first as a press release by the World Bank yesterday.) Climate change is already preventing people from [...]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the website of Climate Central, convenor of the World Weather Attribution programme that includes [...]

(This opinion piece appeared first on the IFRC news site last week.) We are increasingly seeing debates about the best use of [...]

(This story appeared first last week on the IFRC news site. It has been edited slightly here for length.) Seven [...]

An IFRC programme to help National Societies engage with National Adaptation Plans (NAP) reached Kenya and Malawi through workshops last [...]

“It does not inspire,” Prakash Javadekar, India’s minister for environment, forests and climate change, said cuttingly of the chopped-down version [...]

(This is a press release issued by the UN-OCHA Ethiopia Humanitarian Country Team on 13 October. It has been edited [...]

(These stories first appeared yesterday on the Cordaid and Wetlands International websites. They are edited slightly here for length.) Disasters [...]

The small Vanuatu village of Epau now has its own draft action plan for climate and disaster resilience. Thirty representatives [...]

“We want to continue with you, we want to learn from you, we can also help you.” That was the [...]

The Secretary General of the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), Abbas Gullet, who is in the Netherlands, today called on [...]

A major international conference on resilience taking a 360-degree look at both lessons learned over half a decade of programme [...]

The IFRC in a press release yesterday strongly welcomed the adoption at a special UN summit in New York over the [...]

A three-day summit to adopt an ambitious new sustainable development agenda for humanity post-2015 was starting at UN headquarters in [...]

For a city planner looking to make a new building flood-proof, or a farmer interested in trying out new drought-resistant [...]

Communities and humanitarian and development workers are facing rapidly changing risks from unplanned urbanization, environmental degradation, a changing climate and [...]