Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 1st-7th November 2025
UK Health Security Agency sent this bulletin at 07-11-2025 04:21 PM GMT
1st-7th November 2025
Regional Hazards
The Caribbean
- Hurricane Melissa: Aerial view of 'ground zero' destruction - BBC News
- Nearly 6 million people in the Caribbean impacted by Hurricane Melissa | UN News
Mauritania and Senegal
Rift Valley fever- Mauritania and Senegal - WHO
Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia
- Typhoon Kalmaegi kills three in Vietnam after leaving 188 dead in Philippines - BBC News
- Flash Update No. 3 Tropical Cyclones Kalmaegi & Fung-wong - Thursday, 06 November 2025, 1530 HRS (UTC +7) - Philippines | ReliefWeb
Uganda and Kenya
Uganda and Kenya landslides leave more than 40 people dead - BBC News
Country Hazards
Afghanistan
- Earthquake in Northern Afghanistan - WHO Situation Report No. 3 | November 2025 - Afghanistan | ReliefWeb
- IOM Flash Update #2 - Earthquake in Northern Afghanistan (06 November 2025) - Afghanistan | ReliefWeb
Australia
Giant hail causes injuries and damage to cars, homes across south-east Queensland - ABC News
Karenia cristata species source of toxins in SA's algal bloom, scientists believe - ABC News
Bosnia- Herzegovina
Eleven killed in blaze at Bosnian retirement home - BBC News
Brazil
Brazil - Severe weather (media, INMET) (ECHO Daily Flash of 4 November 2025) - Brazil | ReliefWeb
Cuba
Haiti
Hurricane death toll rises to 43 in Haiti as aid pours in | AP News
India
Temple stampede in India’s Andhra Pradesh kills at least 9 | Religion News | Al Jazeera
Indonesia
Explosions at a high school in Indonesia injure 55 | AP News
Indonesia - Lahar (BNPB, BMKG)(ECHO Daily Flash)
Italy
Avalanche in Italy kills five including father and daughter - BBC News
Worker dies after partial collapse of medieval tower in Rome - BBC News
Jamaica
- Jamaica: Hurricane Melissa - PAHO Situation Report #9 - 4 November 2025 - Jamaica | ReliefWeb
- Nearly a third of Jamaica’s annual wealth wiped out by Hurricane Melissa | UN News
Kenya
Kenya - Landslide and floods , update (DG ECHO, Meteo Kenya, media) ECHO Daily Flash
- Kenyan landslide kills 21 after heavy rainfall - BBC News
- Landslides in Kenya’s Rift Valley leave 21 dead, 30 others missing | Climate News | Al Jazeera
- Kenyan landslide death toll rises to 26 as flash floods hamper search for survivors | AP News
Malawi
Mauritania
Mauritania - Rapid influx of refugees (DG ECHO, UNHCR) ECHO Daily Flash
Mexico
Mexico: Fire at shop in Hermosillo kills 23, officials say - BBC News
Nepal
Philippines
South Korea
At least 3 dead, 5 trapped after structure collapses at South Korean plant | AP News
Uganda
United Kingdom
West Coast Mainline disruption ongoing after Cumbria train derails - BBC News
USA
At least 12 dead in UPS cargo plane crash in Kentucky - BBC News
Vehicle explodes in huge fireball in the Bronx - BBC News
Other items of interest
Global
World Tsunami Awareness Day | Tsunami Day -5 November 2025
- Invest in preparedness for every coast and community | Tsunami Day
- Sustained investment in tsunami preparedness is essential | Tsunami Day
- World Tsunami Awareness Day commemorated in Geneva | Tsunami Day
UN Climate Change Conference - Belém, November 2025 | UNFCCC
- UN chief urges world leaders to drive down global warming | UN News
- UNFCCC - Progress in the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans
- Belém Health Action Plan (BHAP),for the adaptation of the health sector to climate change
- Cities Unite to Tackle Deadly Extreme Heat | Rockefeller Foundation (RF)
- New climate pledges do little to correct global warming projection, UN warns | UN News
- Comprehensive Disaster and Climate Risk Management (CRM) - UNDRR
- New Brazil-led fund aims to put forest protection at the heart of climate action | UN News
- Can COP30 mark a turning point for climate adaptation? Climate Home News
2024 Progress report: UN Plan of Action on disaster risk reduction for resilience | UNDRR
Surviving the next pandemic could depend on where you live | UN News
Fresh push to fight toxic mercury pollution underway | UN News
Battlefields to wastelands: UN warns conflicts are destroying ecosystems worldwide | UN News
HIPs and Early Warnings for All - CODATA, Committee on Data of the ISC
Regional
Pacific Multi-Hazard Disaster Risk Assessment Landscape Report | Asian Development Bank
Rapid Antarctic glacier retreat sparks scientific 'whodunnit' - BBC News
Country
Devastation on repeat: How climate change is worsening Pakistan's deadly floods - BBC News
Anger lingers in Serbia a year after train station tragedy - BBC News
London's emergency services spend £11m on wildfires and floods - BBC News
Sudan crisis: UN agencies race to aid civilians as violence engulfs El Fasher | UN News
- Genocide prevention expert raises alarm over alleged Sudan atrocity crimes | UN News
- Famine declared in two Sudanese cities cut off by war, fragile gains elsewhere | UN News
- IOM Highlights Urgent Need to Address Protracted Displacement in South Sudan - South Sudan | ReliefWeb
Drogheda: Children rescued after fire at asylum accommodation 'started deliberately' - BBC News
Recent Papers of Note
- Ochwat, N., Scambos, T., Anderson, R.S. et al. Record grounded glacier retreat caused by an ice plain calving process. Geosci. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01802-4
- Bakhtiari, Z. A review of environmental conflict resolution: approaches, challenges, and emerging trends. Discov glob soc 3, 131 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44282-025-00279-1
- Grujdin and M. Datcu, Ontology-Driven Pipeline for the Automated Generation of Multimodal Datasets for Supervised Learning in Natural Hazard Models in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3622513.
- Quintana AV, Gilson L, Kovats S, Wright CY, Mayhew SH. The implementation gap: Cross-sector management of heat-related health risks in Western cape, South Africa. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2025 Oct 29;5(10):e0004699. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0004699 PMID: 41160548; PMCID: PMC12571260.
- Leal Filho, W., Aina, Y.A., Gatto, A. et al. Greening the factory floor and reducing the climate impact of the manufacturing sector. Discov Sustain 6, 1204 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43621-025-02056-1