Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 16th – 21st August 2025
UK Health Security Agency sent this bulletin at 21-08-2025 04:30 PM BST
16th – 21st August 2025
Regional Hazards
Americas
Spain and Portugal
Spain and Portugal fires: Two more dead as Spanish troops battle blazes - BBC News
- Spain, Portugal - Wildfires, update (JRC EFFIS, DG ECHO, Copernicus EMSR, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 19 August 2025) - Spain | ReliefWeb
- Wildfires burn 600 000 ha (1.5 million acres) in Spain and Portugal, killing six and forcing mass evacuations - The Watchers
- Smoke Blankets the Iberian Peninsula - NASA
Country Hazards
Afghanistan
Bus crash in northwestern Afghanistan kills 79, including 19 children | AP News
Central African Republic
China
China - Floods, update (media, CMA) (ECHO Daily Flash of 20 August 2025) - China | ReliefWeb
China - Landslide (media, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 21 August 2025) - China | ReliefWeb
Colombia
Denmark
One dead and several injured as Danish train hits tanker and derails - BBC News
India
India - Flash floods (media, IMD) (ECHO Daily Flash of 18 August 2025) - India | ReliefWeb
Mumbai: Heavy rain paralyses life in India's financial capital - BBC News
India - Monsoon rains, update (media, IMD) (ECHO Daily Flash of 20 August 2025) - India | ReliefWeb
Indonesia
Italy
Migrant boats capsize off Italian coast, killing at least 27 - BBC News
Italy - Severe weather (media, MeteoAM) 18 August 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
Death toll rises to 4 in botulism outbreak in Italy | Euronews
Israel
Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1- Israel
Japan
Fire injures 2 sailors on USS New Orleans off Okinawa | AP News
Mali
Nigeria
Sokoto boat accident: Nigerian rescuers search for dozens missing - BBC News
Pakistan
- Pakistan: Torrential rains kill three times more people than same period in 2024, including more than 170 children - Pakistan | ReliefWeb
- Flash floods kill more than 300 in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir - BBC News
- Pakistan floods: Hundreds killed within days in rain-related incidents - BBC News
- Rescuers comb through flash flood debris in search of survivors - BBC News
Explosion at Pakistan fireworks storage facility injures at least 25 people | AP News
Philippines
Philippines - Floods (NDRRMC, Pagasa) (ECHO Daily Flash of 19 August 2025) - Philippines | ReliefWeb
Portugal
Russia
Death toll in Russian factory fire rises to 24 | AP News
Somalia
Disease spreads in Somalia as funding cuts leave 300,000 without safe water | NRC
South Korea
Spain
Spain at 'extreme risk' of new wildfires as 14 blazes spread - BBC News
Sudan
USA
Watch: Moment debris skyrockets after North Carolina gas explosion - BBC News
USA - Wildfires (FEMA, JRC GWIS) 20 August 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
Venezuela
Other items of interest
Global
UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profiles 2025 update
- High-level launch: from heatwaves to cyber threats - understanding today’s hazards - International Science Council
- Hazard definition and classification review: Technical report (2025) | PreventionWeb
- 2025 Hazard Information Profiles (HIPs) | PreventionWeb
UN honours fallen aid workers on World Humanitarian Day | UN News
OBSERVER: Designing sponge cities with Copernicus Land | Copernicus
Regional
Hurricane Erin Roils in the Atlantic - NASA
- Hurricane Erin could bring destruction to East Coast despite not making landfall - ABC News
- Mapping Hurricane Erin: Storm dramatically shifts trajectory after lashing the Caribbean with rain and high winds | The Independent
- Hurricane Erin leaves some beaches on US East Coast off limits - BBC News
IFRC launches Zero Hunger Campaign to drive durable food security across Africa | IFRC
European State of the Climate 2024 | Copernicus
Country
Methanol poisoning: Man saw kaleidoscopic light before going blind - BBC News
Italy - Wildfires (JRC EFFIS, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 19 August 2025) - Italy | ReliefWeb
Rubella eliminated as a public health problem in Nepal: WHO | UN News
Severe flooding disrupts transport and damages homes in Guadalajara, Mexico - The Watchers
Heat burst (“Satan’s Storm”) forces beach evacuations on Spain’s Costa Tropical - The Watchers
Recent Papers of Note
- Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 2025: European State of the Climate 2024,copernicus.eu/ESOTC/2024, doi.org/10.24381/14j9-s541
- Guglielmi G. Summer 2025 is roasting hot: these charts show why it matters. 2025 Aug;644(8077):586-588. doi: 10.1038/d41586-025-02553-3. PMID: 40813478.
- Bobde, V., Ayegbusi, K., Akinsanola, A.A. et al. Anthropogenic warming is accelerating recent heatwaves in Africa. Commun Earth Environ 6, 578 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02578-6
- Clarke, B., et al. (2025). Climate change tripled heat-related deaths in early summer European heatwave. Grantham Institute report.
- Zhang, Q., Li, C., Wen, D. et al. Global South shows higher urban flood exposures than the Global North under current and future scenarios. Commun Earth Environ 6, 594 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02585-7
- Sun F, Ke J, Vivarkanon P, Aung MN, Xia Q, Jiang L. Flooding and Cognitive Health among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Thailand: A Case Study of Resilient City Policy in Bangkok. Annals of Global Health. 2025; 91(1): 49, 1–13. DOI: https://doi.Org/10.5334/aogh.4740