Please find below links to some aspects of disaster resilience that were in the news recently…
Recent emergencies/disasters
Severe flooding leaves 28 dead across central and southeastern Mexico https://watchers.news/2025/10/11/severe-flooding-leaves-28-dead-across-central-and-southeastern-mexico/
Strong M6.7 aftershock hits Mindanao, Philippines hours after deadly M7.4 https://watchers.news/2025/10/10/strong-m6-7-aftershock-hits-mindanao-philippines-hours-after-deadly-m7-4/
Remnants of Priscilla trigger flash floods in New Mexico, U.S. https://watchers.news/2025/10/12/remnants-of-priscilla-trigger-flash-floods-in-new-mexico-u-s/
Severe floods destroy nearly 10 000 homes, kill 22 in southern Chad https://watchers.news/2025/10/09/severe-floods-destroy-nearly-10-000-homes-kill-22-in-southern-chad/
Storm Alice brings record rainfall and flash floods to Catalonia, Valencia, and Murcia, Spain https://watchers.news/2025/10/13/storm-alice-record-rainfall-flash-floods-catalonia-valencia-murcia-spain/
Major flooding hits Pagosa Springs, Colorado https://watchers.news/2025/10/13/major-flooding-hits-pagosa-springs-colorado/
Over 120 dead and missing, 100 000 homes damaged as severe floods sweep through Mexico https://watchers.news/2025/10/14/over-120-dead-and-missing-100-000-homes-damaged-as-severe-floods-sweep-through-mexico/
Nor’easter leaves at least three dead as coastal flooding and high winds impact multiple states https://watchers.news/2025/10/14/noreaster-leaves-at-least-three-dead-as-coastal-flooding-and-high-winds-impact-multiple-states/
Landslide destroys hotel and shops along Jammu–Srinagar Highway https://watchers.news/2025/10/13/landslide-collapses-hotel-shops-along-jammu-srinagar-highway/
At least one dead and two missing after remnants of Typhoon Halong flood western Alaska https://watchers.news/2025/10/15/at-least-one-dead-and-two-missing-after-remnants-of-typhoon-halong-flood-western-alaska/
High-level eruption at Lewotobi volcano, Indonesia https://watchers.news/2025/10/14/high-level-eruption-at-lewotobi-volcano-indonesia/
Tornado-like storm injures 13 and damages dozens of buildings in Kuala Langat, Malaysia https://watchers.news/2025/10/16/tornado-like-storm-injures-13-damages-dozens-buildings-kuala-langat-malaysia/
Volcanic activity worldwide 30 Sep 2025: Santiaguito volcano, Fuego, Karymsky, Popocatépetl, Soputa https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano-activity/news/282215/Volcanic-activity-worldwide-30-Sep-2025-Santiaguito-volcano-Fuego-Karymsky-Popocatepetl-Soputa.html
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Wind and solar smash grid market share records, even after heavy curtailment, coal at new low https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and-solar-smash-grid-market-share-records-even-after-heavy-curtailment-coal-at-new-low/
IEA Report Claims Fossil Fuel Imports Have Declined In More Than 100 Countries https://cleantechnica.com/2025/10/10/iea-report-claims-fossil-fuel-imports-have-declined-in-more-than-100-countries/
Antarctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is third smallest on record https://www.carbonbrief.org/antarctic-sea-ice-winter-peak-in-2025-is-third-smallest-on-record/
World Reaches a Climate ‘Tipping Point,’ Imperiling Coral Reefs https://e360.yale.edu/digest/climate-tipping-point-coral-reefs
Modelling shows gas project emissions will cause hundreds of heat-related deaths https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-14/fossil-fuel-climate-impact-study-models-heatwave-deaths/105870098
The $3.3 trillion climate question: Can data centres take the heat? https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/10/data-centres-3-3-trillion-question-heat-cooling/
State of Global Water Resources 2024 https://wmo.int/publication-series/state-of-global-water-resources-2024
For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project https://theconversation.com/for-the-first-time-we-linked-a-new-fossil-fuel-project-to-hundreds-of-deaths-heres-the-impact-of-woodsides-scarborough-gas-project-266060
Most of the world has recently set all-time heat records https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/most-of-the-world-has-recently-set
Record renewable energy growth falls short of climate goals https://www.dw.com/en/record-renewable-energy-growth-falls-short-of-climate-goals/a-74357169
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/15/record-leap-in-co2-fuels-fears-of-accelerating-global-heating
UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/15/uk-prepare-buildings-2c-rise-temperature
Existing demand-side climate change mitigation policies neglect avoid options https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02800-5
Antarctica is starting to look a lot like Greenland—and that isn’t good https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/antarctica-is-starting-to-look-a-lot-like-greenland-and-that-isnt-good/
The climate crisis is fuelling extreme fires across the planet https://theconversation.com/the-climate-crisis-is-fuelling-extreme-fires-across-the-planet-267626
Disaster risk reduction
WMO and the Early Warnings for All Initiative https://wmo.int/activities/early-warnings-all/wmo-and-early-warnings-all-initiative
How climate information and early warning systems protect lives and economies https://climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/how-climate-information-and-early-warning-systems-protect-lives-and-economies
How do faults evolve into plate boundaries? https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-025-00729-z
Deep Learning Approach for Wildland Fire Recognition Using RGB and Thermal Infrared Aerial Image https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/7/10/343
The technology dividend: Empowering and protecting communities through early warnings https://www.undp.org/geneva/blog/technology-dividend-empowering-and-protecting-communities-through-early-warnings
Proposing a community-led digital early-warning system: integrating climate resilience with protection programming in South Asia https://odihpn.org/en/publication/proposing-a-community-led-digital-early-warning-system-integrating-climate-resilience-with-protection-programming-in-south-asia/
How disaster-ready are African countries? Study of 5 shows some progress, but also huge gaps https://www.preventionweb.net/news/how-disaster-ready-are-african-countries-study-5-shows-some-progress-also-huge-gaps
A Fireline Displacement Model to Predict Fire Spread https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/7/4/121
Transit-Oriented Development Urban Spatial Forms and Typhoon Resilience in Taipei: A Dynamic Analytic Network Process Evaluation https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/16/10/1178
Chaotic weather outlook raises prospects of summer bushfires across eastern states https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-11/chaotic-australia-weather-outlook-a-forecasting-nightmare/105878032
Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/14/millions-more-homes-in-great-britain-at-risk-of-flooding-investigation-finds
Latest issue of the Journal of Disaster Studies https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55699
Real-Time Fire Classification Models Based on Deep Learning for Building an Intelligent Multi-Sensor System https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/7/9/329
Six inspiring ways South Africa is reducing disaster risk https://www.preventionweb.net/news/six-inspiring-ways-south-africa-reducing-disaster-risk
New STEER framework to help governments upgrade National Risk Registers for a world of systemic risks https://www.preventionweb.net/news/new-steer-framework-help-governments-upgrade-national-risk-registers-world-systemic-risks
Deciphering human influence on annual maximum flood extent at the global level https://www.preventionweb.net/publication/deciphering-human-influence-annual-maximum-flood-extent-global-level
New York Is Going to Flood. Here’s What the City Can Do to Survive https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/15/nyregion/new-york-climate-flooding-solutions.html
Guiding Disaster Risk Reduction Investments Through AI-Powered Tools https://earth.org/guiding-disaster-risk-reduction-investments-through-ai-powered-tools/
Integrating Physical-Based Models and Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry to Retrieve Fire Severity by Ecosystem Strata from Very High Resolution UAV Imagery https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/7/9/304
Earth’s Crust Is Breaking Apart off the Pacific Northwest https://scitechdaily.com/earths-crust-is-breaking-apart-off-the-pacific-northwest/
Flood resilience in England https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cmselect/cmenvaud/550/report.html
A record £10.5 billion investment in flood defences will defend nearly 900,000 properties in England, with new rules to get defences built more quickly https://www.gov.uk/government/news/deprived-communities-to-get-new-flood-defences-faster
Severe and Short Interval Fires Rearrange Dry Forest Fuel Arrays in South-Eastern Australia https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/7/4/130
The Spatial Distribution and Temporal Drivers of Changing Global Fire Regimes: A Coupled Socio-Ecological Modeling Approach https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024EF004770
Emergency Management
Eugowra flood inquest told official information was not accurate https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-13/eugowra-flood-inquest-hears-official-information-was-inaccurate/105876674
Investigation of Flood Behaviour at Eugowra November 2022 Flood Event Report https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/investigation-of-flood-behaviour-at-eugowra-november-2022-flood-event-report
Why heat warnings need to get more local https://dialogue.earth/en/climate/why-heat-warnings-need-to-get-more-local/
Storms Are Changing — Should the Hurricane Scale Change Too? https://news.gatech.edu/news/2025/10/09/storms-are-changing-should-hurricane-scale-change-too
Baby and father rescued after getting stranded by flash floods in Eloy, Arizona https://watchers.news/2025/10/15/baby-and-father-rescued-after-getting-stranded-by-flash-floods-in-eloy-arizona/
Victorian volunteer firefighter numbers grow despite levy angst https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-15/volunteer-firefighters-increase-despite-esvf-levy-angst/105877566
Disaster Education, Communications and Engagement
International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2025: Fund Resilience, Not Disasters https://iddrr.undrr.org/
Am I at risk of flooding? https://thefloodhub.co.uk/am-i-at-risk/
Flood Action Week and the Floodmobile https://www.floodre.co.uk/social/
Property Flood Resilience (PFR) Directory https://floodmary.com/attention-introducing-the-new-property-flood-resilience-pfr-directory/
Stop Disasters Game expands to 11 languages and new learning spaces https://www.preventionweb.net/news/stop-disasters-game-expands-11-languages-and-new-learning-spaces
Enhancing community participation in disaster risk reduction: insights from Iwate Prefecture Post Great East Japan Earthquake https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44367-025-00021-3
Disaster psychology
Mental Health Vulnerability Index (MHVI): preparing communities, societies and authorities for the impacts of climate change on mental health https://www.preventionweb.net/publication/documents-and-publications/mental-health-vulnerability-index-mhvi-preparing-communities
Mental Health and Traumatic Occupational Exposure in Wildland Fire Dispatchers https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/7/5/157
Community devastated by floods healing through stage performance https://www.itv.com/watch/news/community-devastated-by-floods-healing-through-stage-performance/4krk7pf
The importance of mental health to respond to and recover from disasters https://www.connectingbusiness.org/news-events/news/mental-health-disaster-management
Sociology and disasters
Adaptive mobility responses during Hurricanes Helene and Milton in 2024 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae0e39
Dialogues of digital commons and equitable resilience https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/sp/2024-n2024-sp010139/1118937ar/
Autoethnography as the Fourth Axis: Reflections on the Comparative Case Study Approach in Times of Crisis https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aeq.70028
Women’s leadership at the heart of disaster risk reduction https://www.undp.org/blog/womens-leadership-heart-disaster-risk-reduction
Post-disaster regional institutional quality and geographical mobility https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396449048_Post-disaster_regional_institutional_quality_and_geographical_mobility
Disaster Resilience News 