Disaster risk communication

The BFI, Arts Council England, LIVE Green, and Julie’s Bicycle have partnered to roll out Cool Off in Culture, a UK-wide campaign signposting the public to cultural venues during increasingly frequent heatwaves.

England is sweltering under an red heat health alert and could see its hottest June day on record. In North America, football fans and players are suffering, with a quarter of this summer’s World Cup matches forecast to be played in dangerous heat.

This paper presents the outcomes of an initial investigation into the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems in translating high-stakes messages.

Experts say when people receive too many warnings, especially for events that do not directly affect them, they begin to tune them out.

Operation of a new system of "disaster prevention weather information" reorganizing warnings and advisories for hazards in Japan began May 28.

Some of the same ecological changes fueling Maine’s winter tick boom are also making tick encounters more common in broad swaths of the U.S.

Adaptation is not a substitute for mitigation. Cutting emissions remains indispensable to preventing the worst outcomes of climate change. Even if we succeed in limiting warming to 1.5°C, we will still face more floods, heatwaves, and ecosystem losses.