Unique campaign to save lives, empower girls & tackle climate change. Connects climate change, disaster risk reduction, drowning prevention & gender. #SDGs
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🌊 Scientists can recreate a tsunami in a lab – and what they learn is shaping safer coastlines.
Innovation like this helps empower individuals and coastal communities to take action in the face of hazards.
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🏙️ How much is your city sinking? The answer may depend on your neighborhood.
A study of 465 large cities worldwide used satellite data to map land subsidence, revealing how citywide averages can hide local hotspots.
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ALT Binoculars above a city skyline with text warning that some neighborhoods are sinking faster than others, highlighting urban sinking risks.
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📢 Investing in early warning systems is a smart way to fund resilience.
24 hours of warning before a hazard strikes can cut damages by 30% – saving lives, protecting livelihoods, and reducing economic losses.
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*INUNDAÇÕES - Entre prejuízos de 57 bilhões de reais/ano, sua vida é o mais importante*
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#drowning #afogamento #sobrasa #natacao @kpaloa @mormaii @flutspuma @fundivemergulho @guartecs @ativanauticacoletes @revistaemergencia @fondationprincessech @dhlbrasil
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🇳🇵 The clearest look at what started the catastrophic floods in Nepal!
New footage, obtained and verified by the New York Times, shows the Langtang Lirung collapse on August 26.
The hikers heard it before they saw it. One crack, loud enough that they turned. Then the ice went, and the rock behind it, down into the valley, and the dust came up over all of it.
A second video catches the debris already running downhill.
That's the first minute of it. Everything that happened to the villages downstream happened after this.
Writer: Oliver
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UN agencies are working with 🇳🇵 to build resilience where it matters most.
Nepal faces earthquakes, floods, landslides & climate risks like melting glaciers & erratic monsoons.
🤝 See how UN partnerships help locals move from risk to readiness 🇺🇳 ow.ly/hENT50VLhgq
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Nearly 160,000 women and girls are impacted by the floods in #Nepal.
Our new Gender Alert highlights the risks they face, and what support they need.
The needs of women and girls must be central to the response and recovery.
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The 160k figure is the total female population of Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts used as an unverified proxy assuming all impacted (per their own alert); Red Cross estimates ~93k total people affected.
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🌊 Early warnings for floods need to give communities enough time to act – and to know what actions to take.
This #DRRvoices explores what Nigeria's flood forecasts reveal about turning warnings into preparedness.
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Indonesia’s coastal communities face rising disaster risks, but reliable, timely data is scarce.
📡 @uinspire_id CoastalSense uses low-cost, community-built sensors to deliver real-time, local insights.
On#DRRvoices 👇
ow.ly/N17x50WcYVO #ActForResilienceToday TsunamiDay
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👩⚕️Climate change affects everyone, but at certain stages of our life we are more vulnerable to its impacts.
We need to understand & address climate-related health risks for a healthier, more resilient future.
➡️ ow.ly/c1JV50SiI61 #WorldHealthDay #StandWithScience
ALT Climate change has health impacts at all life stages
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Being attacked, insulted and trolled everyday won't make me stop talking about PERIODS openly a natural call for WOMEN and GIRLS
Every time when I read the message I am amazed and motivated to keep going
Thank you kindly 🙏 ❤️ @jk_rowling
China introduces “flying life buoys” as new #drowningprevention device. 👏👏
Take note @WHO @CIPRB @RNLI @RoyalLifeSaving @malinimehra
Shoreham incident: six-year-old girl dies in hospital after family drown
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*CRIANÇA não cuida de outra criança e nem faz salvamento dentro da água*
3a semana PISCINA+SEGURA 24 a 30 de agosto
Dê aos seus alunos a melhor proteção.
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#drowning #afogamento #sobrasa #natacao @mormaii @fondationprincessech @dhlbrasil @metodologiagb
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Learn how to prevent and manage disaster displacement in your community with this FREE online course ⛈💡 🌞
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@NRC_Norway @DDisplacement @UNmigration @IOM_MECC @Refugees @IDMC_Geneva @ifrc
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Having read a great deal about Arday, I think this may be the very best piece. By @sarahditum sarahditum.substack.com/p/th…
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A dedicated global goal for water is vital.
#SDG6 has helped countries take stronger, more coherent action — while connecting water with health, climate, food, human rights and sustainable development.
Read the UN SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2026: buff.ly/SMzc5Y1
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The week's 🗞 news and 🔬trusted research updates on disaster risk reduction, hand picked by the #PreventionWeb editors.
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This #InternationalYouthDay, COP29 Youth Climate Champion @leylahasanova21 shares her message ahead of #BCAW2026 organized in parellel with UNFCCC Climate Week 4 highlighting the power of youth voices in shaping climate action.
Building Climate Solutions. Together.
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Extreme heat is reshaping global agriculture through compounding pathways that reach well beyond the field. 🔥
Maize yields are falling. Marine heatwaves damage fish stocks. Early warnings & climate services are effective adaptation tools.
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#BeatTheHeat
ALT Diagram illustrating how extreme heat impacts agriculture and food security through direct and indirect pathways including drought, wildfires, and livestock productivity loss.