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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.

Documents and publications

2 December 2022

Advancing disability-inclusive action on internal displacement

This collaborative report presents the latest research from across the globe on how persons with disabilities are affected by internal displacement.

Two people standing in front of a collapsed building after the Haiti earthquake in 2010.

Research briefs

30 November 2022

Earthquake lab experiments produce aftershock-like behavior

Earthquakes are notoriously hard to predict, and so too are the usually less-severe aftershocks that often follow a major seismic event.

Cornell University

A blazing wildfire starts to encroach on residential areas in Braga, Portugal

Update

1 December 2022

The cost of wildfires is rising. But by how much?

States are struggling to budget given incomplete data

Grist Magazine

Documents and publications

1 December 2022

Pakistan floods 2022: Post-disaster needs assessment

This PDNA assesses the impact of the 2022 floods in 94 calamity-hit districts across Pakistan. It serves as the foundation for future analysis, including a resilient recovery and reconstruction strategy and a coordinated effort for building back better.

Update

30 November 2022

More nations can be better prepared for drought as IWMI takes its space-based monitoring tool online

Experts at COP27 have made apocalyptic forecasts of weather under climate change if urgent action is not taken. In South Asia the anticipated ‘climate chaos’ is already a reality for many, with extreme droughts and floods increasingly affecting the region

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Update

30 November 2022

Where Mauna Loa’s lava is coming from – and why Hawaii’s volcanoes are different from most

Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, began sending up fountains of glowing rock and spilling lava from fissures as its first eruption in nearly four decades began on Nov. 27, 2022.

Conversation Media Group, the

Research briefs

30 November 2022

Landslide risk remains long after an earthquake

Satellite observations have revealed that weak seismic ground shaking can trigger powerful landslide acceleration – even several years after a significant earthquake.

Newcastle University

A satellite image of a cyclone shot from space.

Research briefs

29 November 2022

Even weak tropical cyclones have grown more intense worldwide – we tracked 30 years of them using currents

Tropical cyclones have been growing stronger worldwide over the past 30 years, and not just the big ones that you hear about.

Conversation Media Group, the

Research briefs

29 November 2022

Strongest Arctic cyclone on record led to surprising loss of sea ice

A warming climate is causing a decline in sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, where loss of sea ice has important ecological, economic and climate impacts.

University of Washington

Research briefs

30 November 2022

NASA study: Rising sea level could exceed estimates for U.S. coasts

This NASA study describes new results showing average sea level rise approaching the 1-foot mark for most coastlines of the contiguous U.S. by 2050. The Gulf Coast and Southeast will see the most change.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration