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The AHEAD Global Snapshot #12 provides displacement forecasts for April to June 2026, covering ten countries and analyzing cross-border displacement from Sudan see: drc.ngo/en/documents/a…

First Africa Climate–Health Desk launched by ACMAD, WHO & WMO. As extreme heat & other climate and health hazards intensify across the continent, the new Desk is designed to translate & transmit life-saving climate intelligence to reach key decision-makers climahealth.info/africa-climate…

Hearing the call: How Timor-Leste is reaching the "last mile" with Early Warnings by @UNDRR preventionweb.net/news/hearing-c…

15 years after the Great East Japan earthquake & tsunami: we continue to honour those lost and the communities that were forever changed. These experiences taught important lessons that have influenced global approaches to disaster risk reduction unescap.org/blog/15-years-…

Guidelines for simulation exercises on early warning systems for weather induced risks by @CIMA preventionweb.net/publication/do…

How 1.5 million km of undersea internet cables can double up as an earthquake and tsunami warning system theconversation.com/how-1-5-millio…

Extreme Heat Deaths Must Be Avoided: by Avoidable Deaths Network. 'Extreme heat deaths are not acts of nature. They are acts of neglect, when warning exists, solutions exist, and yet protection does not. Every life lost to heat is an avoidable loss' avoidable-deaths.net/2026/03/28/ext…

Flash droughts: Why speed, not scarcity, is the new systemic risk: cfr.org/articles/flash…

Pacific Disaster Center, Twilio.org, and UMBC help strengthen early warnings and landslide risk awareness in Colombia - pdc.org/pdc-twilio-col…

Hearing the call: How Timor-Leste is reaching the "last mile" with Early Warnings by @UNDRR preventionweb.net/news/hearing-c…

Collaborative community-based early warning systems – Solutions brief by Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance @ZCRAlliance preventionweb.net/publication/do…

France’s FR-Alert: The role of mobile network operators in Early Warning Systems by @GSMA preventionweb.net/publication/do…

How to ensure inclusive early warning early action? Good practices and local innovations from Eastern Nepal that leave no one behind preventionweb.net/publication/do…

From FitzRoy's barometers to impact-based phone alerts: how weather warnings have evolved across the UK and Ireland A look the fascinating history of UK and Irish weather warnings as Met Eireann moves away from county based areas later this year netweather.tv/weather-foreca…

Satellite study of 2.2 million thunderstorms shows how to predict their formation - findings by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), published in Nature, are set to improve the certainty about the location of upcoming storms on hot days preventionweb.net/news/satellite…

🚀If you missed our recent launch of the UCL Warning Database launch event, you can watch it again on our YouTube Channel: youtube.com/watch?v=s74mKg… 🔗You can access the database free here: ucl-wrc.github.io/ucl-warning-da… @stsucl @UCLRDR @UNDRR @WMO @ifrc @ITU @EarlyActionREAP @kan_risk

Japan’s early warning system: The role of mobile network operators gsma.com/solutions-and-… by @GSMA

Community rain monitoring helps disaster preparedness: india.mongabay.com/2026/01/commun…

Malawi mobilizes government and community commitment to early warnings preventionweb.net/news/malawi-mo…

A little TEST message can go a long way...thewarnroom.com/post/a-little-… by Jeannette Sutton from The Warn Room