Critical infrastructure

The TRACER project aims to enhance Zambia’s connectivity and resilience by improving and reinforcing several critical transport corridors, and enhancing the institutional capacities to manage the regional road-rail corridors.

A new methodology based on optical interferometry to monitor, in real time, the structural damage to buildings hit by earthquakes.

Study in India assessed aging bridge resilience to natural hazards. Four regions analyzed to define survival limits amid worsening conditions. Bridges’ structural safety found crucial to disaster response and infrastructure integrity.

New analysis by Johns Hopkins researchers finds some bridges are likely to sustain catastrophic hits within the next few decades.

This paper addresses the growing need to shift wildfire management strategies from suppression to greater preparedness and adaptation in response to increasingly frequent and intense wildfire events.

A new effort by Kochi’s local authorities, supported by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is now underway to restore the city’s waterways, which are seen as crucial to helping the city adapt to the changing climate.

Helping communities predict extreme weather events that have never been recorded in modern history is the focus of a new study published in Nature Communications.

In a significant step toward enhancing bridge safety, a new research bridge was inaugurated in Bautzen, Germany, on March 19, 2025.