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A new mathematical model offers guidance on how to minimize COVID-19 spread during large-scale evacuations

Coronavirus heightens the existing inequality globally. The author explores the pandemic-driven economic and social inequalities in five aspects.

Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) can predict the path of some megastorms and help protect communities from floods and major damage to infrastructure.

Although there is no easy recipe for addressing compound risk, especially during a pandemic, drawing from country experience there are five steps to manage hurricane risk

Heatwaves have already become the major weather-related cause of deaths in the US. The author discusses how heatwaves can kill from the physiologist's perspective.

As a “stress test” pandemic outbreak and ongoing crisis has already taught us several important lessons that should be considered for dealing with climate change

The global COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented levels of disruption to education, impacting over 90% of the world’s student population: 1.54 billion children, including 743 million girls. School closures and the wider socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 on communities and society also disrupt children’s and young people’s...

The world is facing a global health and economic crisis unlike any, since the second world war — one that is killing people, spreading human suffering, and turning people’s lives upside down. But this is much more than a health crisis. It is a humanitarian crisis, and Asia’s children, especially the most vulnerable, are...

In an effort to prevent the transmission of Covid-19, governments around the world have closed schools. School closures are negatively impacting the well-being of children and young people and, in some contexts, might not be effectively reducing transmission. The INEE and the Alliance call on policymakers to: Consider the impacts of school closures...

Rising sea levels are impacting the design and shape of our cities. Edward Barsley outlines six key strategies for creating environments that are adapted to flooding.