Compound Effects of Marine Heatwaves and Tropical Cyclones With Rapid Intensification Increase Risks For Economic Damage Compound Effects of Marine Heatwaves and Tropical Cyclones with Rapid ...

WARM was piloted on two rivers of strategic importance identified in the water mandate list: the Guadalquivir River in ...

A recent report by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), authored by Niranga Alahacoon, Sahana V., and Giriraj ...

A powerful earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in July 2025 has provided scientists with new observations of how tsunamis form near their source. Using data from a new generation satellite, ...

Flood mapping in urban areas poses significant challenges for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors due to limitations in detecting water in regions characterized by dense vegetation, urban ...

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The aim of this step-by-step procedure is the generation of a burn severity map for the assessment of the areas affected by wildfires. The Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) is used, as it was designed to ...

In January and February 2026, Mozambique was struck by a catastrophic humanitarian crisis as torrential rains from Tropical Cyclone FYTIA and the subsequent intense Tropical Cyclone GEZANI devastated ...

Access to clean, sufficient water is both a humanitarian imperative and a cornerstone of sustainable development. Yet for river basin managers, disaster risk officers, and environmental agencies, ...

This webinar is convened by the United Nations Global Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Centre (UN-GGKIC), within the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), ...

Nepal has taken an important step forward in enhancing disaster preparedness by hosting its first National Flood Simulation Exercise (SIMEX) focused on End-to-End Early Warning Systems (EWS) and ...

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), through its UN-SPIDER Beijing Office, in collaboration with ...