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Every week the PreventionWeb team of editors selects the latest news and research, reports and publications on disaster risk reduction – here is their selection of the latest must-read content.

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The impact of climate change on education and what to do about it

The study is aimed at examining the intersection between climate change and education, with specific focus on how extreme weather events negatively impacts education outcomes.
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Documents and publications

High-resolution impact-based early warning system for riverine flooding

In this study researchers demonstrate a comprehensive floodplain inundation hindcast of the 2021 European Summer Flood illustrating these possibilities for better disaster preparedness, offering a 17-hour lead time for informed and advisable actions.
Rain clouds at the coastline
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The impacts of El Niño go far beyond water

While most attention surrounding El Niño focuses on drier conditions and water shortages, cascading effects impact food and energy production, air quality, human health and more.
World Resources Institute
Hurricane Florence seen from Space in September 2018
Research briefs

Coastal hurricanes around the world are intensifying faster

New work finds hurricanes are intensifying faster close to the coast—a trend that’s likely to ramp up in a warmer world
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Children walking to school in Indonesia
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Realizing Education's Promise: Rebuilding Indonesia's madrasahs and returning students to the classroom after an earthquake

When a 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck the Cianjur district in Indonesia’s West Java province in November 2022, more than 13,000 students at private religious schools were thrown out of their classrooms because of severe damage to their buildings.
World Bank, the
Business meeting
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Seven guiding principles for preparing financing strategies for climate change adaptation in developing countries

As developing countries transition from planning to implementation in their National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes, a critical step is securing financing to implement priority adaptation actions articulated through the NAP process.
National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network
Sand storm hitting the city of Basra in Iraq, 2022
Research briefs

Climate is one culprit in spread and growth of Middle East dust levels

Climate change is transforming dust storms—a natural phenomenon in the Middle East—into a more frequent and widespread threat to health and economies throughout the region, a new study shows.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
This image shows dead trees that were destroyed by a forest fire and are now covered with frost and rain.
Research briefs

Wildfires in wet african forests have doubled in recent decades

Climate change and human activities like deforestation are causing more fires in central and west africa’s wet, tropical forests, according to the first-ever comprehensive survey there. The fires have long been overlooked.
American Geophysical Union
A Senegalese woman harvests crop from her farm
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Race to resilience in action: Strengthening climate resilience in Senegal through digital agricultural finance

In Senegal, the impact of climate change is acutely felt across its vast agricultural landscapes, where smallholder farmers – many of whom are women – face increasing vulnerability due to erratic weather patterns.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Cargo ship crossing the Panama Cannal
Research briefs

Drought behind Panama Canal’s 2023 shipping disruption ‘unlikely’ without El Niño

A lengthy drought that caused widespread disruption to commercial ships passing through the Panama Canal in 2023 would have been “unlikely” without the influence of El Niño, according to a rapid attribution study.
Carbon Brief
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