Knowledge Base Highlights and editors' picks

Top stories and editors' picks from the most recent additions. Explore the whole Knowledge Base.

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.

Research briefs

13 February 2024

A century of reforestation helped keep the Eastern US cool

Much of the U.S. warmed during the 20th century, but the eastern part of the country remained mysteriously cool. The recovery of forests could explain why.

American Geophysical Union

Update

13 February 2024

Five key needs for addressing flood injustice

Better data and assessment metrics—and improved researcher involvement in communities—are needed to understand and redress inequitable vulnerabilities to and recoveries from flooding.

Eos - AGU

Research briefs

12 February 2024

The escalating impact of global warming on atmospheric rivers

Climate change is set to intensify atmospheric rivers and exacerbate extreme rainfall worldwide.

Eos - AGU

Update

13 February 2024

#Art4Resilience: Announcing the Knowledge-into-Use award winners

The Resilience Evidence Coalition, a network consisting of the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), CDKN and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) has announced the second round of the Knowledge-into-Use awards.

Climate and Development Knowledge Network

Documents and publications

13 February 2024

From extreme events to extreme seasons: Financial stability risks of climate change in Mexico

This paper explores the financial stability implications of acute physical climate change risks using a novel approach focusing on a severe season associated with a series of tropical cyclone and flood events.

Research briefs

9 February 2024

Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point − once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades, study shows

In a new study using the latest generation of Earth’s climate models, researchers simulated reaching the tipping point of the shutdown of the Atlantic Mederian circulation.

Conversation Media Group, the

Update

8 February 2024

El Niño is starting to lose strength after fueling a hot, stormy year, but it’s still powerful − an atmospheric scientist explains what’s ahead for 2024

That strong El Niño is now starting to weaken and will likely be gone by late spring 2024. So, what does that mean for the months ahead – and for the 2024 hurricane season?

Conversation Media Group, the

Update

9 February 2024

What's causing the Amazon's ongoing record drought?

Based on preliminary analyses, a team of experts with the World Weather Attribution project has concluded that human-caused global warming played a significantly larger role than El Niño in intensifying the 2023 Amazon drought.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Update

9 February 2024

Weather v climate: how to make sense of an unusual cold snap while the world is hotter than ever

Why are the weather and the climate producing opposing signs? The reason is that they refer to atmospheric characteristics on substantially different timescales.

Conversation Media Group, the

Research briefs

8 February 2024

Health hazards loom 6 months after Maui wildfires, study reveals

About half of Maui residents impacted by the August wildfires say their health is worse now compared to a year ago and more than half say they lost their jobs because of the fires.

University of Hawai'i

The DRR Knowledge Base

Explore the latest on disaster risk and resilience from around the world: news, research, policies and publications.

Subscribe to alerts

Get updates in your inbox

Contribute your content

The Knowledge Base is a collaborative effort of the DRR community, updated and reviewed daily by PreventionWeb editors.

Upload your content for review