situational awareness

National Cyber Security Centre and the Republic of Korea’s National Intelligence Service issue a joint advisory warning

The 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

The 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

The 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

New 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

A 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

RiskChanges 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

The 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

The 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