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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

22 August 2023

Human mobility in the context of climate change

The Global Programme “Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change” aims at improving applied knowledge to the sustainable management of climate change-induced human mobility.

View on Tien Shan mountain peaks and lake, Kyrgyzst Republic

Update

21 August 2023

Artificial glacier helps mountain village in Kyrgyzstan meet water needs

An innovative solution helps villagers stock up water for a dry summer

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters

Update

21 August 2023

A billion people in Africa are at a climate risk blind spot

Disasters related to the weather or climate are becoming more common. Since 1970, there has been a five-fold increase in the number of weather-related disasters, causing economic damages that have surged a staggering 70 times over the same period.

Conversation Media Group, the

Update

20 August 2023

Preventing droughts, floods and soil erosion in land desperately needed by some of the poorest farmers and herders

Restoring the productivity of rangelands is critical if pastoral and agro-pastoral communities are to continue their natural resources-based livelihoods in ecologically fragile parts of Puntland.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

A man overlooks a wildfire visible from San Francisco under a hazy sky turned orange

Update

19 August 2023

Yellowknife and Kelowna wildfires burn in what is already Canada’s worst season on record

The devastating wildfire that destroyed the historic Maui town of Lahaina in Hawaii was still making headlines when the Northwest Territories issued an evacuation order for Yellowknife and British Columbia declared a provincewide state of emergency.

Conversation Media Group, the

Television journalists covering the Bekasi flood, Indonesia in 2021

Update

18 August 2023

Does your newsroom have plans for how to cover sudden disasters? Editors share ideas

Editors from 15 news organisations gathered at the World News Media Congress in Taipei to brainstorm ways to prepare their newsrooms and responses for unexpected disasters.

World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA)

Tourists enjoying the view at Grand Canyon Skywalk observation point at Grand Canyon West Rim in a sunny day, Arizona, USA

Research briefs

17 August 2023

Models suggest Grand Canyon could see increase in heat-related illnesses due to climate change

A pair of resource stewardship researchers has found via modeling that it is likely more visitors to Grand Canyon National Park will experience heat-related injuries as the region warms due to climate change.

PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd

Flooded streets following a hurricane in Florida, USA

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15 February 2023

Carolina researchers examine new construction in floodplains

A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that new housing construction in flood-prone areas has contributed to increasing risk across North Carolina despite community and government efforts to reduce floods.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Prescribed burn at the Upper Applegate Watershed, Oregon

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17 August 2023

Giving power to communities for fire resilience

A total of 47 landowners implemented more than 260 acres of broadcast burning – most of whom reported having very little to no previous fire experience before attending the training. The average burn unit size was 5.9 acres.

Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network