Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 28th June – 4th July 2025  

28^th June – 4^th July 2025  

 

Regional Hazard

Argentina, Chile and Uruguay

WMO: Southern South America hit by exceptional cold spell

• At least 15 dead as polar air mass brings record low temperatures to Argentina, Chile and Uruguay - The Watchers
• Chile and Argentina among coldest places on Earth as polar anticyclone grips region | UN News

 

Europe

Europe - Heatwave (ECMWF, EUMETNET, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 3 July 2025) - Spain | ReliefWeb

• Extreme heat grips Europe World Meteorological Organization
• Scorching European heatwave turns deadly in Spain, Italy and France - BBC News
• Temperatures reach 46C in Spain as Europe heatwave continues - BBC News
• Europe heatwave: Spain and England record hottest June - BBC News
• France shuts 1 350 schools, Italy limits work as severe heatwave grips southern Europe - The Watchers
• Northern hemisphere heatwave underscores value of early-warning alerts | UN News

 

Country Hazards

Afghanistan

Afghanistan - Floods (NOAA-CPC, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 1 July 2025) - Afghanistan | ReliefWeb

• Heavy rainfall triggers fatal flash floods in Maidan Wardak and Logar, Afghanistan - The Watchers

 

Bangladesh

Bangladesh: Acute Malnutrition Situation for January - December 2025 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

 

Benin

Benin - Forced displacements (DG ECHO, DG ECHO Partners) (ECHO Daily Flash of 3 July 2025) - Benin | ReliefWeb

 

Central African Republic

Central African Republic: Acute Food Insecurity Situation for April - August 2025 and Projection for September 2025 - March 2026 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

 

China

China - Floods (UN OCHA, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 2 July 2025) - China | ReliefWeb

• Two major flood waves in Rongjiang, China leave 120 000 evacuated and six dead - The Watchers

A search continues for 6 people missing after a chemical plant explosion in China | AP News

Tornado damages vehicles and warehouses in Cangzhou, China, reports indicate two fatalities - The Watchers

 

Egypt

An oil-drilling ship capsized in the Gulf of Suez, killing at least 4 crewmen, Egypt says | AP News

 

Ethiopia

Ethiopia - Refugees displacement (DG ECHO, UNHCR) (ECHO Daily Flash of 3 July 2025) - Ethiopia | ReliefWeb

 

France

France - Wildfires (COGIC, JRC EFFIS, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 30 June 2025) - France | ReliefWeb

 

Germany

Germany - Wildfires (JRC EFFIS, Copernicus EMSR, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 4 July 2025) - Germany | ReliefWeb

• Wildfires in eastern Germany injure firefighters and force evacuations | AP News

Bus carrying travellers from Denmark to Austria skids off road in Germany injuring at least 20 | AP News

 

Greece

Greece - Wildfires (JRC EFFIS, Copernicus EMSR, Greek Civil Protection, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 4 July 2025) - Greece | ReliefWeb

• Greece wildfires: mass evacuations as blaze rages near Ierapetra, Crete - BBC News
• 4 hospitalized and nearly 1 500 evacuated as a major wildfire burns through Ierapetra in Crete, Greece - The Watchers

 

India

At least 39 killed in fire at pharmaceutical factory in India | CNN

India - Severe weather, floods and landslides (India Sphere, IMD) (ECHO Daily Flash of 3 July 2025) - India | ReliefWeb

• Situation Report 2 - HP Cloudbursts, Flash Floods, Landslides, Date: 02nd July 2025, Time: 10:00AM - India | ReliefWeb
• Four killed, 16 missing after flash floods hit Himachal’s Mandi district - The Watchers

India - Floods and landslides (IMD, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 30 June 2025) - India | ReliefWeb

 

Indonesia

Indonesia: Six dead, dozens missing after ferry sinks off Bali - BBC News

 

Italy

France, Italy -  Floods (COGIC, Meteo France, Meteo AM, media) 01 July 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

Huge explosion at Rome petrol station injures at least 27 people | Reuters

 

Japan

Japan endures hottest June on record - The Watchers

• Turn up the AC: Japan records hottest June in almost 130 years | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

Japan - Volcanic activity and earthquakes (JMA, USGS, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 4 July 2025) - Japan | ReliefWeb

• Explosive eruption at Shinmoedake blankets parts of Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures with ash, Japan - The Watchers

 

Nepal

Nepal - Severe weather (Government of Nepal, NOAA-CPC, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 2 July 2025) - Nepal | ReliefWeb

 

Nigeria

Nigeria - Floods (IFRC, NIMET, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 3 July 2025) - Nigeria | ReliefWeb

 

Pakistan

Pakistan - Flash floods, heatwave and earthquake (DG ECHO Partners, NDMA, IFRC, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 30 June 2025) - Pakistan | ReliefWeb

• Death toll rises to 32 after Pakistan hit by flash floods and heavy rains | News | Al Jazeera
• A week of heavy rains and floods across Pakistan kills 46 people including 13 family members | AP News

 

South Sudan

South Sudan: MSF calls for urgent scale up in water and sanitation programs amidst rising cholera cases in Abyei - South Sudan | ReliefWeb

 

Spain

Spain - Wildfires (JRC EFFIS, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 3 July 2025) - Spain | ReliefWeb

• 2 killed in Spain wildfire as Europe bakes in heat wave | AP News

 

Sudan

A gold mine collapse kills 11 workers in Sudan | AP News

Sudan: UN warns of soaring displacement and looming floods | UN News

 

Tanzania

At least 37 people killed in a bus collision in a remote part of Tanzania | AP News

 

Turkey

Türkiye - Wildfires, update (JRC EFFIS, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 2 July 2025) - Türkiye | ReliefWeb

• Wildfires in Greece and Turkey force resort evacuations, cause 2 deaths | AP News

 

USA

Advocates sound the alarm about children left in cars as temperatures soar | AP News

• At least 5 young children die in hot cars in the US within a week, reports say

USA - Wildfires (FEMA, JRC GWIS, media) 01 July 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

Search continues for 7 missing after explosion at California fireworks warehouse | AP News

6 killed in Ohio plane crash, officials say | AP News

15 hospitalized after skydiving plane crashes in New Jersey | AP News

1 dead, 2 injured in Philadelphia explosion that damaged several homes | AP News

 

Yemen

Yemen: Acute Food Insecurity Situation for May - August 2025 and Projection for September 2025 – February 2026 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

• Yemen - Famine (DG ECHO, IPC – Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) (ECHO Daily Flash of 1 July 2025) - Yemen | ReliefWeb

  

Other items of interest

Global

Drought Hotspots Around the World 2023-2025 | UNCCD

• Global Drought Hotspots report catalogs severe suffering, economic damage | UNCCD
• 2025. Drought Hotspots Around the World 2023-2025. United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn.

4th International Conference on Financing for Development

• It’s time to finance our future and ‘change course’, Guterres tells world leaders in Sevilla | UN News
• After the big development pledges in Sevilla, UN says action starts now | UN News
• Drowning in debt: New forum in Sevilla offers borrowers chance to rebalance the books | UN News
• The Sevilla Commitment: A vital step to rebuild trust in global cooperation | UN News

Human rights can be a ‘strong lever for progress’ in climate change, says UN rights chief | UN News

Global Humanitarian Overview 2025, May-June Update (Snapshot as of 30 June 2025) - World | ReliefWeb

• Global Humanitarian Overview 2025 - The Cruel Math of Aid Cuts (Hyper - Prioritized Report) - June 2025 - World | ReliefWeb

Science diplomacy in an era of disruption Royal Society & American Association for the Advancement of Science

Readout on WHO participation in global nuclear emergency exercise

WHO Scientific advisory group issues report on origins of COVID-19

• World Health Organization. (2025). Independent assessment of the origins of SARS-CoV-2 from the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO). Geneva, Switzerland. Available at: https://bit.ly/SAGO-SARS-CoV-2

 

Regional

FAO boosts regional cooperation and locust emergency management in South America - Argentina | ReliefWeb

New ECDC weekly reports and guidance to tackle mosquito-borne diseases across Europe

Every five seconds, a child is displaced, injured, or killed in the Middle East and North Africa’s conflicts

 

Country

Myanmar Post-earthquake rapid needs assessment - DIEM-Impact report, April 2025 - Myanmar | ReliefWeb

Tuvalu: One in three citizens apply for climate change visa - BBC News

Report reveals significant rise in civilian casualties and rights violations in Ukraine | UN News

Suriname certified malaria-free by WHO

DR Congo: New initiative to eliminate HIV in children ‘a beacon of hope’ | UN News

Austria - Landslides (GeoSphere Austria, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 2 July 2025) - Austria | ReliefWeb

Australia Department for Environment and Water - SA harmful algal bloom update

Record-breaking rain and winds hit Australia's east coast - ABC News

The shift to prevention: A new ecosystem of health promotion and protection | Royal Society

 

Recent Papers of Note

• Cologna, V., Meiler, S., Kropf, C.M. et al. Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world. Clim. Chang. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02372-4
• Vohra R, Barash JR, Karmarkar EN, et al. Foodborne Botulism Outbreak After Consumption of Home-Canned Cactus (Nopales) — Fresno County, California, June 2024. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2025;74:408–413. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7424a1.
• Cavalcanti, D., et al. Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis. The Lancet, June 20, 2025.