Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 7th – 13th June 2025

7^th – 13^th June 2025

 

Regional Hazards

Cambodia, China, Laos, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam

China, Viet Nam - Tropical storm WUTIP, update (GDACS, JTWC, NOAA South Asia, ADINet) 13 June 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

• Flash Update #1 - Tropical Cyclone WUTIP, INVEST 94W, & Southwest Monsoon Countries under monitoring: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam, 11 June 2025 - Philippines | ReliefWeb

 

Country Hazards

Afghanistan

Flash floods kill 3, cause severe property damages in Afghanistan's Badakhshan

 

Bangladesh

Bangladesh: Floods and Landslides - Jun 2025 | ReliefWeb

 

Canada

Satellites capture wildfire smoke as Toronto records the worst air quality in the world, Canada - The Watchers

• Europe Air Quality Alert: Canadian Wildfire Smoke

 

Colombia

Colombia - Earthquake, update (GDACS, IFRC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 11 June 2025) - Colombia | ReliefWeb

 

Democratic Republic of the Congo

30 killed in a boat sinking in northwestern Congo, residents say | AP News

 

Djibouti

At least eight drown in Red Sea as smugglers force migrants overboard | UN News

 

Egypt

IOM Spokesperson on the Tragic Migrant Deaths Off Egypt’s Coast | International Organization for Migration

 

France

France - Wildfire (COGIC, EFFIS) 12 June 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

• A new disastrous wildfire is raging in the southwest of France | Copernicus

 

Guatemala

 

Guatemala - Volcanic activity, update (IFRC, CONRED, INSIVUMEH) (ECHO Daily Flash of 11 June 2025) - Guatemala | ReliefWeb

 

Haiti

Haiti - Forced displacement (DG ECHO, IOM, Reliefweb) (ECHO Daily Flash of 12 June 2025) - Haiti | ReliefWeb

 

India

Air India crash latest: London-bound passenger plane carrying 242 people crashes after take-off in India - BBC News

• Updates: One man survives Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad that kills 241 | Aviation News | Al Jazeera
• UN chief ‘deeply saddened’ as Air India crash claims lives of over 200 on board | UN News

Kerala: Four crew members missing as Singapore cargo ship burns off India coast - BBC News

• Kerala: Officials race to tow burning ship away from India coast to prevent 'ecological disaster' - BBC News

 

Indonesia

Indonesia - Floods (UN OCHA, BMKG, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 12 June 2025) - Indonesia | ReliefWeb

 

Iran

At least three killed in fire at Iran chemical plant | News | Al Jazeera

 

Mali

Mali - Conflict, attacks against civilians (DG ECHO, UN OCHA, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 10 June 2025) - Mali | ReliefWeb

 

Mexico

3 dead after plane fighting screwworm spread crashes in southern Mexico | AP News

 

Myanmar

Myanmar - Floods (DG ECHO Partners, UN OCHA, Local Media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 10 June 2025) - Myanmar | ReliefWeb

 

Philippines

Philippines - Severe weather and floods, update (PAGASA, NDRRMC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 12 June 2025) - Philippines | ReliefWeb

Philippines - Floods (PAGASA, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 11 June 2025) - Philippines | ReliefWeb

Philippines - Floods (ADINet, PAGASA) (ECHO Daily Flash of 9 June 2025) - Philippines | ReliefWeb

 

South Africa

South Africa - Severe weather and floods (South African Weather Service, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 11 June 2025) - South Africa | ReliefWeb

• The death toll in floods in South Africa has risen to 78 | AP News

3 people have died in a light aircraft crash in South Africa, authorities say | AP News

 

South Sudan

SOUTH SUDAN: Conflict increases the risk of Famine in parts of South Sudan with 7.7 million people experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, 2.3 million children acutely malnourished | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

• South Sudan: Acute Malnutrition Situation Projection Update for April - June 2025 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
• South Sudan: Acute Food Insecurity Situation Projection Update for April - July 2025 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
• Famine stalks two counties in South Sudan as fragile peace is threatened | UN News

 

Tonga

How Tonga and WHO are joining forces to strengthen dengue outbreak response - Tonga | ReliefWeb

 

Trinidad and Tobago

Heavy rainfall triggers widespread flooding and infrastructure damage across Trinidad - The Watchers

 

USA

Flash floods claim 5 lives, leave 2 missing in San Antonio, Texas - The Watchers

Storms push through the South, killing at least 2 people | AP News

Small plane carrying 6 people crashes off San Diego coast | AP News

Skydiving plane crash leads to multiple injuries in Tennessee | AP News

USA - Wildfires (FEMA, JRC GWIS, media) 13 June 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

• FEMA Authorizes Funds to Fight Rowena Fire in Oregon | FEMA.gov
• Wildfire Near San Bernardino Mountains Prompts Evacuation Orders - The New York Times

A Tornado’s Mark on Kentucky | NASA

 

Vietnam

Viet Nam - Floods (NCHMF Vietnam, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 10 June 2025) - Viet Nam | ReliefWeb

 

Other items of interest

Global

The Geneva Call for Disaster Risk Reduction | PreventionWeb

• Geneva call for disaster risk reduction CO-CHAIRS’ SUMMARY OF THE GLOBAL PLATFORM. 
• Disaster Risk Reduction Must Be ‘at Heart of Our Efforts to Secure Safer, More Sustainable, Just World, Deputy Secretary-General Tells Geneva Event | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases
• Global Platform 2025: Risk communication is essential for disaster risk reduction | PreventionWeb
• Global Platform 2025 champions inclusive disaster risk reduction | PreventionWeb
• LAC women take lead in shaping a gender-responsive, resilient future | PreventionWeb
• Early Warnings: We must go further, faster and together WMO
• People’s experience of anticipatory action Mapping the user journeys of anticipatory action in Mozambique | World Food Programme
• Local and regional success stories of investing in disaster resilience | Europeam Committee of the Regions | PreventionWeb
• Heat: Through the eyes of the most vulnerable-Perceptions and pathways to action | IFRC | PreventionWeb

Number of people uprooted by war at shocking, decade-high levels – UNHCR | UNHCR

• Displacement doubles while funding shrinks, warns UNHCR | UN News
• Global Trends | UNHCR

Guterres calls for an end to ocean ‘plunder’ as UN summit opens in France | UN News

• Global push to end plastic pollution gains ground in Nice | UN News
• ‘Plenty of fish in the sea’? Not anymore, say UN experts in Nice | UN News
• ‘No Ocean Declaration without small islands’: Delegates push for inclusion as UN summit nears end | UN News

World Environment Day: UN sounds alarm on plastic pollution crisis | UN News

Despite progress, child labour still affects 138 million children globally – ILO, UNICEF

Educating medical and nursing students to provide mental health, neurological and substance use care: A practical guide for pre-service education WHO

 

Regional

Israel-Iran crisis: UN chief urges calm after overnight strikes | UN News

Weekly Bulletin on Outbreaks and Other Emergencies: Week 22: 26 May to 1 June 2025 (Data as reported by: 17:00; 1 June 2025) - South Sudan | ReliefWeb

• African Nations unite to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis and boost cross-border collaboration for NTDs

Epidemic and emerging disease alerts in the Pacific as of 10 June 2025 - World | ReliefWeb

Climate emergency is a health crisis ‘that is already killing us,’ says WHO | UN News

Chronic respiratory diseases: more than 80 million affected and many more undiagnosed, warns new WHO and European Respiratory Society report

North Africa faces sheep shortage and rising prices for Eid al-Adha | AP News

 

Country

Watch: Moment Chile earthquake rocks live TV show - BBC News

County Cavan: Lightning strike kills 10 young cattle - BBC News

TB: India brought forward its tuberculosis elimination deadline - but can it meet it? - BBC News

Malnutrition in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp after US aid cuts - BBC News

‘Our worst held fears are being confirmed’: Dozens of bodies discovered in Libya mass graves | UN News

Sudan emergency: We need more help to prevent famine, says WFP | UN News

WHO EMRO | An oral cholera vaccination campaign aims to reach more than 2.6 million people in Sudan’s Khartoum State | Sudan-news | Sudan

Gaza: Women and girls struggle to manage their periods amid crisis | UN News

‘It is an elephant’: Ukraine’s unexploded mine problem | UN News

Kilauea shoots lava hundreds of feet in the air during eruption - BBC News

Chemical leak at Ohio explosives plant triggers evacuations and flight restrictions - The Watchers

Yemen at breaking point as UN envoy urges action to end suffering | UN News

 

Recent Papers of Note

• Gill, J. C., Duncan, M., de Ruiter, M., Tiggeloven, T., Ward, P. J., Smale, L., & Ciurean, R. (2025). Concept note: The multi-hazard context and its relevance to the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction / International Science Council's Hazard Information Profiles (HIPs). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15574444
• Messori, G., Muheki, D., Batibeniz, F., Bevacqua, E., Suarez-Gutierrez, L., & Thiery, W. (2025). Global mapping of concurrent hazards and impacts associated with climate extremes under climate change. Earth's Future, 13, e2025EF006325. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EF006325
• Endendijk, T., Rodriguez Castro, D., Dillenardt, L. et al. Flood experience and access to insurance contribute to differences in homeowners’ post-disaster adaptation in a cross-border region of Western Europe. Commun Earth Environ 6, 426 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02385-z
• Forsberg K, Sheats KJ, Blair JM, et al. Surveillance for Violent Deaths — National Violent Death Reporting System, 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, 2022. MMWR Surveill Summ 2025;74(No. SS-5):1–42. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss7405a1.
• Arnold C. How a mysterious epidemic of kidney disease is killing thousands of young men. 2025 Jun;642(8066):22-25. doi: 10.1038/d41586-025-01689-6 . PMID: 40467744.
• "5 Facts on Marine Heatwaves," United Nations University, UNU-EHS, 2025-06-06, https://unu.edu/ehs/article/5-facts-marine-heatwaves.