[Aug 29, 2026] A Changing Climate comes with Unprecedented Hazards cause Extreme Disasters: The deadly flash flood and mudflow in Nepal and neighboring countries on August 26, 2026 was the result of a catastrophic breakdown of a large part of a glacier in the Himalayas. There are reasons to assume that the friction between ice masses of the glacier and the underlying rock was reduced because of a changing climate bring higher temperatures into the region.
We can expect that increasing temperatures will destabilize many other regions global and cause hazards of unprecedented type and intensity. These hazards will often interact with a build environment not prepared for these new hazards. An example are the extreme precipitation events and the many aging reservoir dams in many countries, including the USA. The extreme events can easily lead to a breaking of the dams and extreme flash floods.
Immediate climate adaptation of the built environment, including planning of land use, must be an integral effort in and disaster risk governance.

DRG VCC News

[Jun 13, 2026] Tornados and Heat Waves: Tornadoes are currently impacting North America while early heat waves are putting stress on people, infrastructure and ecosystems. Richard Luscombe provides some evidence on the current dramatic happenings in his article “Tornadoes rip through central US while extreme heat and humidity creep into north-east” published in the Guardian.

Platform News

[Aug 29, 2026] TLNP VCC opened: The "Towards Less Noice Pollution VCC" has been initialized and is open now.

[Aug 03, 2026] Alliance of World Scientists Declares Planetary Emergency: In the paper “ World scientists’ warning to humanity: a third notice” the Alliance of World Scientists includes the “Declaration of a planetary emergency.” The declaration states: “We, the undersigned, recognize that Earth is now in a state of planetary emergency. Climate change, biodiversity loss, land and freshwater degradation, pollution, and unsustainable production and consumption are destabilizing the Earth system that supports all life.”
You can sign the declaration here ...

[Aug 03, 2026] Hothouse Earth: arriving sooner than you think…: Julian Cribb writes in his latest blog: “Latest measurements, carefully analysed to exclude anomalies such as El Nino, reveal a planet cooking up at a steady 0.48 degrees per decade since 2015, in what is thought to be the most rapid heating event in all its geological history.” We are experiencing the most rapid heating event in Earth's billions of years long history! We have caused this event with a few hundred years of sole focus on unlimited growth using all the ancient solar energy accumulated by Earth's biosphere over more than 250 million years - just because we could! That is something to reflect on!