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Lake in Serbia
Update

The renewed Sava Forecasting and Warning System will not only ensure insight into flood risks but also provide the region with important information during hydrological droughts particularly relevant to the inland navigation along the Sava River basin.

Deltares
Research briefs

In March 2025, Central Asia experienced an unusually intense heatwave, with temperatures reaching record highs across the region. Research finds that climate change made the extreme heat about 4 °C hotter and about 3 times more likely.

World Weather Attribution
Research briefs

The study provides new insights into how climate change is reshaping vegetation resilience and underscores the need for proactive measures to mitigate flash drought impacts.

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dried river in Spain
Research briefs

Every few years, the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean seesaws between warm (El Niño) and cold (La Niña) phases. In recent decades, these climate patterns are lingering more often than ever before, which is amplifying their destructive potential.

Conversation Media Group, the
Update

The Kashmir Himalayas are blessed with thousands of freshwater springs. However, in the last two decades, studies show that a significant number of these water sources have either disappeared or shrunk significantly.

Ground Report
Cover and source: Peace Research Institute Oslo
Documents and publications

This policy brief examines conflict- and climate-related challenges to water governance and explores how multi-level collaboration can bridge the gap between global policies and lived realities.

Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Woman with an umbrella walking through a flooded street in city of Salvador, Brazil in 2015
Update

Dying glaciers, record-breaking hurricanes and wildfires, debilitating drought and deadly floods scarred the socio-economic landscape of Latin America and the Caribbean in 2024, according to WMO.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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Documents and publications

The WMO State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean 2024 report provides the status of key climate indicators and information on climate-related impacts and risks.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

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