Recent emergencies/disasters
Thousands evacuated, several missing in Buenos Aires Province floods https://watchers.news/2025/05/18/thousands-evacuated-missing-buenos-aires-province-floods/
Violent tornado strikes London, Kentucky, killing at least 9 https://watchers.news/2025/05/17/violent-tornado-london-kentucky-damage-fatalities/
‘Roaring like a freight train’: Tornado, storms leave at least 27 dead across US Midwest https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/roaring-like-a-freight-train-tornado-storms-leave-at-least-27-dead-across-us-midwest-20250518-p5m04p.html
NSW flooding updates: Two men and a woman have died in NSW Mid North Coast floodwaters, one person remains missing https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-22/weather-warnings-for-nsw-blog/105321074
NSW is copping rain and flooding while parts of Australia are in drought. What’s going on? https://theconversation.com/nsw-is-copping-rain-and-flooding-while-parts-of-australia-are-in-drought-whats-going-on-257235
Volcanic activity worldwide 21 May 2025: Semeru volcano, Ibu, Dukono, Reventador, Sangay, Sakurajima https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano-activity/news/271932/Volcanic-activity-worldwide-21-May-2025-Semeru-volcano-Ibu-Dukono-Reventador-Sangay-Sakurajima.html
Landslide destroys home in central Quebec, leaves massive scar in landscape https://watchers.news/2025/05/22/quebec-landslide-home-destroyed-scar/
Four killed, over 3 000 displaced after heavy rain triggers flooding in Accra, Ghana https://watchers.news/2025/05/22/accra-floods-damage-fatalities-ghana/
West Papua landslide leaves 6 dead and 14 missing, Indonesia https://watchers.news/2025/05/20/west-papua-landslide-6-dead-14-missing-indonesia/
Three dead, over 500 homes flooded after torrential rain hits Bengaluru, India https://watchers.news/2025/05/21/bengaluru-flooding-three-dead-500-homes-damaged/
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
The decline of key Atlantic currents is underway, and it’s been flooding parts of the US for 20 years https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/the-decline-of-key-atlantic-currents-is-underway-and-its-been-flooding-parts-of-the-us-for-20-years
How Hungary became the world’s solar energy leader https://theprogressplaybook.com/2025/05/13/how-hungary-became-the-worlds-solar-energy-leader/
Carbon emissions from tourism are rising disproportionately fast https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/12/11/carbon-emissions-from-tourism-are-rising-disproportionately-fast
Coal mine methane is a big problem for Australia, but technology exists to help cut it https://reneweconomy.com.au/coal-mine-methane-is-a-big-problem-for-australia-but-technology-exists-to-help-cut-it/
Why is southern Australia in drought – and when will it end? https://theconversation.com/why-is-southern-australia-in-drought-and-when-will-it-end-256443
Climate drama Families Like Ours deserves to be a word-of-mouth hit https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26635420-600-climate-drama-families-like-ours-deserves-to-be-a-word-of-mouth-hit/
Facing the Heat: Addressing the Health Impacts of Extreme Temperatures https://www.asiapathways-adbi.org/2025/05/facing-the-heat-addressing-the-health-impacts-of-extreme-temperatures/
Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/20/sea-level-rise-migration
Six ways good climate policy helps your wallet and your health https://phys.org/news/2025-05-ways-good-climate-policy-wallet.html
Havana sets new May temperature record at 38°C (100.4°F) https://watchers.news/2025/05/22/havana-sets-new-may-temperature-record/
Rising to the climate challenge: How the Maldives can thrive in a warming world https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/endpovertyinsouthasia/thriving-in-a-warming-world–how-maldives-can-adapt-to-climate-c
Flagship Initiative against extreme heat and related environmental health risks in workplaces and major events https://www.who.int/initiatives/initiative-against-extreme-heat-and-health-risks-in-workplaces-and-major-events/
Disaster risk reduction
Simulation in Haiti shows the potential of mobile-phone alerts in disasters https://www.preventionweb.net/news/simulation-haiti-shows-potential-mobile-phone-alerts-disasters
NOAA predicts above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-predicts-above-normal-2025-atlantic-hurricane-season
Antecedents of team resilience: A classification and analysis of determining factors https://zenodo.org/records/15090286
Texas at risk – new report sheds light on massive flooding issue https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/catastrophe/texas-at-risk–new-report-sheds-light-on-massive-flooding-issue-536407.aspx
Call to Action for the 8th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) https://www.gndr.org/gpdrr25-join-our-call-to-action/
Emergency Management
Wildfire smoke and extreme heat can occur together: Preparing for the combined health effects of a hot, smoky future https://theconversation.com/wildfire-smoke-and-extreme-heat-can-occur-together-preparing-for-the-combined-health-effects-of-a-hot-smoky-future-252245
What to Know About the Tornadoes That Ripped Through the Central U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/tornadoes-storms-central-us.html
As L.A. rebuilds from the Palisades fire, residents ask: What’s the plan? https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-18/as-l-a-rebuilds-from-the-palisades-fire-residents-ask-who-is-in-charge
Victorian councils ‘deeply reluctant’ to enforce emergency services levy https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-17/emergency-services-levy-fallout-across-victoria/105301354
Evacuations urged as hundreds rescued amid vast deluge https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/nsw/2025/05/22/evacuations-nsw-floods
What Will Disaster Response and Recovery Look Like in a World Without FEMA? https://www.hstoday.us/featured/perspective-what-will-disaster-response-and-recovery-look-like-in-a-world-without-fema/
In a flood, first responders balance helping others while their own families are at risk. It’s an impossible choice https://theconversation.com/in-a-flood-first-responders-balance-helping-others-while-their-own-families-are-at-risk-its-an-impossible-choice-257313
St. Louis mayor complains FEMA isn’t on the ground after major tornado https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/20/fema-not-helping-after-st-louis-tornadoes/83746010007/
Floods, fires and even terrorist attacks: how ready are our hospitals to cope when disaster strikes? https://theconversation.com/floods-fires-and-even-terrorist-attacks-how-ready-are-our-hospitals-to-cope-when-disaster-strikes-257318
Disaster Education, Communications and Engagement
La niña y el Tsunami – The girl and the Tsunami https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Kwm7-UMb4
Building earthquake resilience in Lima’s classrooms: How children lead change in disaster preparedness in Peru https://www.connectingbusiness.org/news-events/news/schools-disaster-preparedness-Peru
GIJN Guide to Investigating Extreme Heat https://gijn.org/resource/gijn-guide-investigating-extreme-heat/
Wildfire Reporting — Expert Advice on Emerging Issues, Recurring Risks https://gijn.org/stories/wildfire-reporting-expert-advice/
Disaster psychology
Assessing extreme heat risk perception: Awareness, worry, preparedness and social capital in Texas https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1462901125000887
What Keeps People From Evacuating During a Natural Disaster? https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/what-keeps-people-evacuating-during-natural-disaster
Staying put: a comparative study of non-evacuation during environmental disasters https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adc8bc
The Communities Organizing for Power Through Empathy (COPE) Community-Based Intervention to Improve Adult Mental Health During Disasters and Crises: Protocol for a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial https://www.researchprotocols.org/2025/1/e63723
Sociology and disasters
A social identity model of collective resilience in emergent groups https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781032708492-3/social-identity-model-collective-resilience-emergent-groups-john-drury-evangelos-ntontis
Toward a Theory of Population Return from Disasters: A Synthesis and Extension of Research Advances https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41885-025-00175-7
Postdisaster Reconstruction After the 2021 Floods From the Neighborhood Perspective https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jfr3.70068
‘Throw a Stone, You Hit One of Your Own’: A Qualitative Exploration of Community Cohesion in an Inner-City Belfast Community https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/casp.70102
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