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The August 2017 flooding across Bangladesh, India and Nepal is a disaster on a major scale, causing more than 1,500 deaths and affecting at least 41

There is no ‘out of the box’ template for effective evacuation planning. The experience of a disaster event is unique to each community, and affects

The Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership (WCSSP) programme is one of the initiatives, supported by UK Government, designed to tackle the challenges posed by severe weather and our changing climate.

In his “The People of the Abyss,” novelist Jack London describes in grim detail a devastating storm that rocked London in the early 20th century

The last few weeks have been a stark reminder the how natural disasters can undermine precious development progress in an instant.

Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity. In Africa alone, 90% of all disasters in recent decades have been driven by weather

Many parts of South Asia are experiencing heavy floods due to extreme monsoon rains, and Bangladesh is no exception. About 8.5 million people have

With more than 250 million people living and working abroad, addressing migrants’ vulnerability is key to reducing the number of people affected by

That Bangladesh was relatively unlucky in this year’s monsoon is surely a measure of just how much progress the South Asian country has made in the

The extreme rainfall, combined with construction on flood-prone areas, poor waste management leading to water blockages and human encroachment on creeks and wetlands that act as a natural drainage system for flood water all contributed to this disaster.