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Mission Under the directorship Professor Christian Jakob and his leadership team, 21st Century Weather is a consortium of 24 organisations, led by Monash University in partnership with the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales, the Australian National University, and the University of Tasmania. The Centre was established in February 2024 and will run until early 2031. Voluntary Commitments The organization has no registered commitments.

6 October 2026 James Davis Photography/Shutterstock El Niño and warming in the tropical Atlantic could help provide advance warning of extreme heat in the Amazon, with some signals appearing as much as seven months earlier, new research has found.

Your experience on PreventionWeb Please help us improve PreventionWeb by taking this brief survey. Your input will allow us to better serve the needs of the DRR community. See the survey 30 September 2026 Author(s): Jemma Vasilyan Rossella Della Monica Dharmendra Ellayah et al. Lagos Food Bank Initiative/Pexels When disasters strike in Guinea-Bissau, their effects can linger long after the immediate danger has passed.

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In January 2013, Lake Michigan reached its lowest water level on record. Seven years later, in the summer of 2020, it broke the opposite record with widespread flooding, eroded shorelines and closed lakeside roads. The difference between the two water levels was nearly two metres. Lakes Superior, Erie and Ontario had the same reversal within a few months of each other. Almost no one saw it coming. These shifts build over months, through a combination of rain, snow, evaporation and human decisions.

6 October 2026 Author(s): Ty Tkacik A flash flood can devastate a community for years in a matter of minutes. These disasters account for roughly 85% of floods and cause thousands of deaths annually worldwide, with water levels capable of shooting up 30 feet and receding back to normal levels in the span of a single, unpredictable day, according to the National Weather Service.

Your experience on PreventionWeb Please help us improve PreventionWeb by taking this brief survey. Your input will allow us to better serve the needs of the DRR community. See the survey 17 September 2026 Author(s): Cristina Stefan It was May 2019, and I was in a large events hall in Goma — a venue built for social gatherings of the community. We weren’t there to celebrate. We were responding to what was then the second-largest Ebola outbreak on record. With spreadsheets.

The Supreme Court opened its 2026-2027 term Monday with a climate case: a lawsuit brought by Boulder, Colorado, against Exxon Mobil and Suncor, a Canadian oil company, over the costs of a warming planet. The case is one of dozens across the country in which local governments have sued fossil fuel companies for their role in driving climate change and are seeking compensation as they now deal with its effects.

This summer broke records around the UK for maximum temperatures and dry weather. According to the UK’s Met Office, while it was rare to hit 35°C in the 20th century, that temperature has been surpassed in six out of the past ten years. And it’s only expected to get higher . Rising temperatures not only contribute to illness and deaths, but also to wildfires, water shortages and the collapse of infrastructure and services. So has this changed the public’s attitudes at all?