situational awareness
National Cyber Security Centre and the Republic of Korea’s National Intelligence Service issue a joint advisory warning
20 November 2023The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Republic of Korea’s National Intelligence Service have issued a Joint Advisory Warning that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are… Read more
Global Risk Dialogue: Hazards with escalation Potential – Implications for risk research
10 November 2023The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, International Science Council, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, and the Simon Institute for Longterm Governance have collaborated to develop a briefing… Read more
The Resilience Wheel
07 November 2023The LINKS project aims to improve European disaster resilience using social media and crowdsourcing (SMCS) in disasters. The project provides various resources related to the Resilience Wheel, including videos, infographics,… Read more
Looking beyond our borders would improve preparedness for extreme floods
06 November 2023New research published in the journal Nature found that almost all extreme flooding across Europe could have been predicted by examining previous significant events in other parts of the continent…. Read more
Infodemic management in pandemic planning and preparedness
25 October 2023A new public health taxonomy for social listening on respiratory pathogens has been developed by WHO to help analysts align data to search strategies, and understand how public conversations concerning… Read more
An open-source tool to assist in multi-hazard risk assessment
17 October 2023RiskChanges is a publicly available open-source tool that the University of Twente developed in collaboration with the Asian Institute of Technology Geoinformatics Centre. It aims to assist organisations in assessing… Read more
State of Global Water Resources 2022
12 October 2023The WMO State of Global Water Resources Report 2022 highlights the critical state of the hydrological cycle due to climate change and human activities. It emphasises the adverse impacts of… Read more
Enhanced monitoring of COVID-19
02 October 2023The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has announced new studies to track the impact of COVID-19 in the UK. The new surveillance studies will help the NHS plan for surges… Read more