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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.

Tropical storm Roanu hit Bangladesh on 21st May 2016. While it was not a big storm, the impact of Roanu surprised us all. Twenty-four people were

Co-authored with Sabrina Stein, program manager at the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF)

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on

While international media provided extensive cover of the devastating flooding in Texas, triggered by tropical storm Harvey, a much larger

While there is a wealth of climate information available, many decision makers struggle to find what they really need to make informed decisions for a

Last summer, I returned home from vacation to find a deck full of scorched plants—apparently they just couldn’t take the heat during Baltimore’s

Whilst there may be similarities, weather warnings from around the globe rarely look the same and have often been developed in different ways. The

Disaster displacement ranks among the biggest humanitarian challenges of the 21st century.

In 2016, new disaster related displacements stood at 24.2

Authors: Timothy Bouley, Catherine Machalaba (EcoHealth Alliance), Cristina Romanelli (UN Convention on Biological Diversity), Chadia Wannous (UN

Climate change is the biggest public health risk of the 21st century, and threatens to adversely affect many aspects of public and environmental