COPE: helping children and youth prepare for disasters

Author Martha Keswick creates books to help children and youth prepare for disasters.

Wildfire smoke exposure during pregnancy increases preterm birth risk, Stanford study finds

4 assumptions about gender that distort how we think about climate change (and 3 ways to do better)

Nepal: Why more women die in disasters

Women bear the brunt of most disasters in Nepal because the outmigration of men from the countryside.

Insights into behaviour during a fire could improve evacuation planning

Australia: Domestic violence will spike in the bushfire aftermath, and governments can no longer ignore it

India: In rural Manipur, women feel the heat of climate change

UNDP: USD 3.64 million grant approved by Japan in support of local-level resilience and disaster preparedness in Serbia

Australia: Researchers investigate the impacts of bushfires on the Blue Mountains LGBTI community

Risk and disaster management: The importance of making cities resilient

Local communities plead for greater involvement in disaster risk reduction

Empowering women reduces disaster risks

Ghana: International Day for Disaster Reduction marked in Upper East

Rwanda: Preparing for disaster is key to development

Preparing for disasters and reducing risk in Azerbaijan

Improving prevention, response among top priorities, says Assembly President