By the Climate CentreIn a special statememt today, the WMO says “intense heat and fire, record-breaking cold and snow, devastating [...]

By the Climate Centre The Chief Executive of the British Red Cross, Beatrice Butsana-Sita, has told an audience in London [...]

By Liz Stephens, University of Reading and Climate Centre science lead Researchers and partners from the INFLOW project met in [...]

by the Climate Centre Against a backdrop of what it calls the “increasing frequency, intensity and spread of extreme weather [...]

By the Climate CentreAustralia’s Bureau of Meteorology said yesterday that potentially record-breaking heat is going to bring severe to extreme [...]

By the IFRC (This story is an IFRC multimedia feature published last week that also included survival tips from the [...]

By the Climate Centre The World Meteorological Organization today confirmed that 2025 was one of the three warmest years on [...]

By the Climate Centre Amid the peak phase of the rainy season in Malawi, the government there last week said [...]

By the Climate CentreThe Australian Red Cross Register.Find.Reunite service was today (Sunday) up and running for four separate fire emergencies [...]

By the Climate Centre The IFRC this week nearly tripled to 14 million Swiss francs its emergency appeal for people [...]

By Annalena Bacher(The Climate Centre is happy on New Year’s Day to open its coverage for 2026 with a young [...]

By the Climate Centre (A look back at the year’s main events and our engagement with them through the eyes [...]

By the Climate Centre (The full IFRC Global Plan for 2026 will be published next month; the Climate Centre’s own [...]

By the Climate Centre World Weather Attribution scientists today published the results of a rapid study of Cyclones Ditwah and [...]

By the Climate Centre IFRC Secretary Jagan Chapagain has said anticipatory action remains a top priority for the Red Cross [...]

By the Climate Centre The Climate Centre today published a comprehensive guide to anticipatory action for displaced people and refugees [...]

By the Climate Centre The Middle East and North Africa had their hottest year on record in 2024, and the [...]

By the Climate CentreThe IFRC’s Disaster Response Emergency Fund described 2024 as a “pivotal year”, with a significant increase in [...]

By the IFRC(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Kuala Lumpur and Geneva yesterday.) The IFRC is responding [...]

By the Climate Centre The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) has now completed activation of both parts of its Early [...]

By the Climate CentreAs climate impacts intensify across the Indian Ocean, the IFRC and the Climate Centre this week joined [...]

By the Climate CentreAs COP 30 closes with what UN organizers are calling a global Mutirão – a Portuguese word [...]

By the Climate Centre Arguing that only through locally led adaptation to climate change (LLA) will vulnerable people feel the [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued jointly yesterday in Belem, Panama City and Geneva. A Climate Centre story [...]

By the Climate Centre Mexico needs better data and a wider network of meteorological stations to understand how climate change [...]

By Ulrika Modeer, Swedish Red Cross Secretary General, and Gustaf Lind, WWF-Sweden Secretary General (This article was published first on [...]

By the Climate CentreThe number of countries with multi-hazard early warning systems has reached a record high of 119 and [...]

By the Climate Centre Many of the nearly 120 million people in the world currently uprooted by conflict and their [...]

By Olivier Cottray, ESRI (This blog appeared first on the ESRI website. It has been edited here for length.) On [...]

By the Climate CentreReporting that Kenya is “in the grip of a worsening climate and humanitarian crisis,” the IFRC last [...]

Climate change significantly increased wind speeds and rainfall from Hurricane Melissa, according to a new rapid analysis by World Weather [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued jointly in Kingston, Geneva and Panama City yesterday.) By the IFRCThe IFRC [...]

(This piece appeared first in The Conversation on Tuesday.) By Alexander Baker, University of Reading, and Liz Stephens, University of [...]

By the Climate Centre The online segment of this year’s two-part Development and Climate Days was held today, with a [...]

By the Climate Centre The amount of money going to developing countries to help them cope with and recover from [...]

By the Climate CentreA new report from the British Red Cross on people’s experience of flooding shows that the ability [...]

By the Climate Centre Jamaicans were Monday preparing for the expected landfall on the south coast overnight of Hurricane Melissa, [...]

By the Climate CentreThe IFRC today released its key messages to the forthcoming UN climate talk in Brazil, leading with [...]

By Fleur Monasso and Sayanti Sengupta, Climate CentreA stocktake last month by nearly 40 European cities and regions involved in [...]

By the Climate Centre The 2015 Paris Agreement could help the world avoid nearly 60 excessively hot days if countries [...]

By the Climate Centre A new report by the Climate Centre looks at the extent to which climate services for [...]

By the Climate Centre   (This appeal was announced first in an IFRC press release issued in Nairobi on Wednesday.) [...]

By the Climate CentreKenya faces a “high likelihood of crop failure” as well as depleted pasture, acute water scarcity and [...]

By the Climate Centre Climate change may lead to less frequent but bigger and more devastating hail storms, new research [...]

By the Climate Centre (Seven Colombian scientists will contribute to the next report on the global climate from the Intergovernmental [...]

By Dorothy Heinrich and Liz Stephens in Antananarivo (A longer version of this piece in English and French, with more [...]

By the Climate Centre IFRC Secretary General Jagan Chapagain yesterday joined a high-level dialogue on early warning and extreme heat [...]

By the Climate Centre The ICRC has published its special appeal for 2025 that aims to enhance the resilience of [...]