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 ...

Nepal has taken an important step forward in enhancing disaster preparedness by hosting its first National Flood Simulation ...

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

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

INSIVUMEH is the entity that constantly monitors the surge, weather, earthquakes and volcanoes in Guatemala, a country with high risks of natural disasters. It does so in order to predict, prevent, ...

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), ...

The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has released its latest report titled "2023 Disasters in Numbers: A Significant Year of Disaster Impact", shedding light on the ...

Since several years ago, satellites have been used to detect fires. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor onboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites has been used to scan the ...