Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 14th – 21st February 2025
UK Health Security Agency sent this bulletin at 21-02-2025 03:34 PM GMT
14th – 21st February 2025
Regional Hazards
Deadly storm hits south-eastern US and Canada - BBC News
Country Hazards
Bolivia
Bus crash in Bolivia kills at least 30 people - BBC News
Botswana
Botswana - Floods (BMS, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 21 February 2025) - Botswana | ReliefWeb
Brazil
One dead as heavy rains and thunderstorms hit Sao Paulo, Brazil - The Watchers
Rio swelters in heatwave amid run-up to Carnival
Cameroon
Toronto plane crash: All passengers survive Delta flight which flips on runway - BBC News
Wing missing after Delta flight flips upon landing at Toronto airport, Canada - The Watchers
China
H9N2 avian flu sickens 2 adults in China | CIDRAP
Colombia
Democratic Republic of Congo
DR Congo displacement, health crisis worsens amid dwindling aid access | UN News
Ecuador
Egypt
10 dead in building collapse in Egypt | AP News
France
France - Snow avalanches (COGIC, media, Meteo France)
India
New Delhi Railway Station: Eighteen people killed in crush - BBC News
Madagascar
Death toll from heavy rains in Madagascar rises to 11 - Global Times
Mali
Mali gold mine: Dozens including women killed in collapse - BBC News
Philippines
Syria
2 women an a child among 4 people killed in explosion at a house in northwestern Syria | AP News
Syria: Mine casualties persist as UN partners scale up clearance operations | UN News
Tonga
Tonga: Dengue Fever Outbreak: Situation Report #1 - 20 Feb 2025 - Tonga | ReliefWeb
UAE
WHO says UAE reports first case of new clade 1b mpox | Reuters
USA
USA - Severe weather, update (FEMA, NOAA)
- Severe winter storm leaves 10 dead, triggers widespread flooding across Kentucky and southeastern U.S. - The Watchers
- US floods: At least nine dead in heavy rain - BBC News
- Floods Swamp Tennessee NASA
- Over 1 500 crashes reported as winter storm claims 4 lives across Nebraska, Tennessee and North Carolina - The Watchers
- Watch: Freezing rain and snow leads to multi-vehicle pileup on Oregon highway - BBC News
- Watch: Burst water main submerges parts of Detroit in icy water - BBC News
- Avalanches claim 3 lives in Oregon and California - The Watchers
- Sweater Weather in North America NASA
Other items of interest
UN environment agency calls for urgent action on ‘triple planetary crisis’ | UN News
- UNEP Annual Report 2024
- United Nations Environment Programme (2025). We are all in this together - Annual Report 2024. https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/47082 .
World's sea-ice falls to record low - BBC News
- Glacier melt intensifying freshwater loss, accelerating sea-level rise | PreventionWeb
- Melting glaciers caused almost 2cm of sea level rise this century, study reveals | Glaciers | The Guardian
World Climate Research Programme 13 concept papers: The Future of Climate Research
Operationalising Sphere: A practical guide to contextualisation | Sphere
Multilateralism: What is it, and why does it matter? | UN News
CARE report: 10 crises to look out for in 2025 | ReliefWeb
DR Congo violence has pushed 35,000 to Burundi, says UN refugee agency | UN News
SpaceX rocket debris crashes into Poland - BBC News
Strike on Chernobyl: ‘No room for complacency’ says atomic energy watchdog | UN News
UN rights office warns of ‘dangerous tipping point’ as abuses surge in Sudan | UN News
Philippines: Cash reward for mosquitoes to beat dengue in Manila - BBC News
Six elephants dead after being struck by train in Sri Lanka - BBC News
Türkiye - Severe Weather (MGM - Turkish State Meteorological Service, CatNat, media, media)
H5N5 avian flu detected in Canadian poultry flock, UK seals | CIDRAP
Security agency launches digital archive of 1995 Tokyo sarin gas attack | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Recent Papers of Note
- Ware-Gilmore F, Rodriguez DM, Ryff, MPH K, et al. Dengue Outbreak and Response — Puerto Rico, 2024. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2025;74:54–60. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7405a1
- Naraharisetti R, Weinberg M, Stoddard B, et al. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus Infection of Indoor Domestic Cats Within Dairy Industry Worker Households — Michigan, May 2024. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2025;74:61–65. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7405a2
- Kraemer, M.U.G., Tsui, J.LH., Chang, S.Y. et al. Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease epidemics. Nature 638, 623–635 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08564-w
- Yang G, Ouyang H, Zhao Z, Li W, Fall I S, Djirmay A G et al. Discrepancies in neglected tropical diseases burden estimates in China: comparative study of real-world data and Global Burden of Disease 2021 data (2004-2020) BMJ 2025; 388 :e080969 doi:10.1136/bmj-2024-080969
- The GlaMBIE Team. Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08545-z
- Robinson, A., Lehmann, J., Barriopedro, D. et al. Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate. npj Clim Atmos Sci 4, 45 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-021-00202-w