Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 21st - 27th June 2025  

21^st-27^th June 2025  

 

Country Hazards

Algeria

MC Alger supporters die falling from Algerian football stadium - BBC News

 

Brazil

Brazil - Floods, update (INMET, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 23 June 2025) - Brazil | ReliefWeb

• IOM Assists Displaced Families as Floods Hit Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul Again

Hot air balloon incident kills eight in Brazil - BBC News

 

Canada

Canada - Landslide (CatNat, Weather Canada, media) 23 June 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

 

Central African Republic

Central African Republic - Displacements (DG ECHO, UN OCHA, INSO, Partners ACF, DRC, COOPI) (ECHO Daily Flash of 24 June 2025) - Central African Republic | ReliefWeb

An explosion and ensuing stampede kill 29 children in a Central African Republic school | AP News

 

China

China - Floods (CatNat, CMA, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 26 June 2025) - China | ReliefWeb

China - Floods (NOAA-CPC, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 25 June 2025) - China | ReliefWeb

Six dead, thousands displaced as floods hit southwestern China | Climate News | Al Jazeera

 

Colombia

Colombia - Landslides (IDEAM, media) 27 June 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

• Death toll from rain-fuelled landslide in Colombia rises to 11 | Climate News | Al Jazeera

 

Croatia

Croatia - Wildfires (JRC EFFIS, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 24 June 2025) - Croatia | ReliefWeb

 

Djibouti

Djibouti: Acute Food Insecurity Situation May - June 2025 and Projection for July - December 2025 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

Djibouti: Acute Malnutrition Situation January- July 2025 and Projection for August - December 2025 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

 

France

France - Severe weather (COGIC, Meteo France, media) 26 June 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

Syringe attacks during France’s music street festival leave 145 jabbed and several hospitalised | Euronews

• Arrests in France after scores report being attacked with syringes at street music festival | France | The Guardian

Severe thunderstorms leave 2 dead and 17 injured, nearly 110 000 homes without power, France - The Watchers

 

Greece

Greece wildfire prompts emergency evacuations and transport closures

• Chios: Wildfires rage on Greek island - BBC News
• Smoke Streams Over the Aegean Sea NASA
• Greece battles wildfire near capital as summer’s first heatwave hits | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera

 

India

India - Severe weather and floods ( NDMI, IMD India, media) 27 June 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

India - Landslide (NDMIndia, IMD, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 25 June 2025) - India | ReliefWeb

India - Severe weather (Government of India, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 24 June 2025) - India | ReliefWeb

 

Indonesia

Indonesia - Landslides ( BMKG, media) 27 June 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

Indonesia - Floods (BNPB, BMKG, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 25 June 2025) - Indonesia | ReliefWeb

Indonesia - Floods (ADINet, BMKG) (ECHO Daily Flash of 23 June 2025) - Indonesia | ReliefWeb

 

Ireland

Two men injured in ship explosion at Limerick port - BBC News

 

Italy

Italy - Wildfire (JRC EFFIS, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 24 June 2025) - Italy | ReliefWeb

Sardinia: First National Case of Lumpy Skin Disease in a Cattle Farm

 

Mexico

Hurricane Erick hits Mexico resort towns killing two - BBC News

River overflows after heavy rainfall, flooding El Mante neighborhood in Zapopan, Mexico - The Watchers

 

Pakistan

Flash floods in Pakistan kill 8 after deluge sweeps away dozens | AP News

 

South Africa

Death toll from South Africa floods 2 weeks ago rises to 101, with 2 children still missing | AP News

 

Uruguay

Uruguay - Cold wave (IFRC, INUMET) (ECHO Daily Flash of 25 June 2025) - Uruguay | ReliefWeb

• Rare cold snap hits homeless hard in Uruguay and causes 7 deaths | AP News

 

United Kingdom

Double-decker with students plunges into river in England | AP News

 

USA

Heat wave: Dozens hospitalised as hot weather hits North America - BBC News

• Prolonged heat wave causes two deaths in Texas and Missouri, United States - The Watchers
• Sizzling Start to Summer NASA

USA - Severe weather (NOAA-WPC, media) 26 June 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

• Lightning strike injures 12 children and 8 adults at Dominion Beach Park, South Carolina - The Watchers

USA - Severe weather (NOAA WPC, media) 24 June 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

• EF-1 tornado kills 3, destroys historic grist mill and homes during rare Flash Flood Emergency in New York - The Watchers

USA - Wildfires, update (FEMA, media, JRC GWIS) 23 June 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

Six dead and two missing after boat flips in Lake Tahoe - BBC News

• Lake Tahoe: 'The water was just screaming,' says witness of boat tragedy that killed eight - BBC News

Three confirmed dead after large tornado strikes Enderlin, North Dakota - The Watchers

• Three trains derailed across North Dakota after derecho and deadly tornado in Enderlin - The Watchers

 

Venezuela

Venezuela - Severe weather and floods, update (IFRC, INAMEH) 27 June 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

• Emergency declaration after heavy rainfall causes widespread flooding and evacuations in western Venezuela - The Watchers

 

Vietnam

Viet Nam - Severe weather (ADINet, NCHMF) (ECHO Daily Flash of 24 June 2025) - Viet Nam | ReliefWeb

 

Other items of interest

Global

80 years later, the UN Charter is a ‘living miracle,’ Secretary-General says | UN News

• Eighty years on, UN Charter marked by reflection, resolve – and a run | UN News

Human Rights Council hears concerns over displacement, genocide risks and migrant trafficking | UN News

‘A moral failure’: Security Council hears about grave violations against children caught in war | UN News

Sustainable Development Report 2025 - Financing Sustainable Development to 2030 and Mid-Century

• Now available: the Sustainable Development Report 2025
• sustainable-development-report-2025.pdf

Sustainable debris management | UNEP - UN Environment Programme

Geospatial insights for climate security UNEP Strata

• Strata Transforming Data into Insights
• Strata Use-Cases - Conflict-sensitive climate and environmental programming - Climate-sensitive conflict prevention and peacebuilding initiatives
• Strata - Resources and further information
• Strata - Visualising complex risks for informed action

Anticipatory action - Overview Report - Anticipation Hub

• Anticipatory_action_and_conflict_briefing_FINAL.pdf
• Toolkit for anticipatory action in fragile, conflict- and violence-affected settings - Anticipation Hub
• Leveraging insurance for anticipatory action: insights and emerging lessons in 2024 - Anticipation Hub
• Video: Anticipatory action in 2024
• Anticipatory action in 2023: a global overview - Anticipation Hub
• Anticipatory Action in 2022: A Global Overview - Anticipation HubSupporti

International scientific collaboration: Vital yet vulnerable - International Science Council

Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)  Draft discussion papers for the 2025 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva | SPARC-Knowledge

• How to create person-centered, multi-hazard early warning systems in conflicts and recurrent crises_Geneva_0.pdf
• 10+1 ways to take anticipatory action to scale in conflicts and recurring crises_Geneva_0.pdf
• We don’t need 10 ideas to reduce disaster risk in conflicts and recurring crises_Geneva_0.pdf

Tobacco control efforts protect 6.1 billion people – WHO’s new report

Energy access has improved, but more funding is needed to address disparities: WHO | UN News

• WHO warns of a health financing emergency | UN News

Attacks on world order and global aid derailing decades of progress on poverty, warns UN poverty expert - World | ReliefWeb

• Weathering the storm: poverty, climate change and social protection - Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter

 

Regional

Asia is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world | UN News

• State of the Climate in Asia 2024 WMO

Weather tracker: US and Europe swelter in June heatwaves | Environment | The Guardian

How summer heat impacts health and how to #KeepCool - WHO Regional Office for Europe

Disinformation: 10 steps to protect yourself and others | Topics | European Parliament

The State of Anticipatory Action in 2025 in Latin America and the Caribbean - Argentina | ReliefWeb

• The Status of Anticipatory Action in 2025 In Central America and the Dominican Republic (Coordination Centre for the Programme of Natural Disasters in Central America, CEPREDENAC)

 

Country

DR Congo: Conflict survivors ‘have been through hell,’ says UN aid chief | UN News

More than 470 earthquakes recorded in the Tokara Islands, Japan - The Watchers

Mozambique: Armed group’s child abductions surge in north - Mozambique | ReliefWeb

‘Still reeling’: Myanmar quakes worsen humanitarian crisis in fractured country | UN News

‘Our kids cry for food’: Most Gaza families survive on one meal a day | UN News

Gaza’s energy crisis threatens lives and humanitarian response | NRC

• Report: Restoring Dignity: The Urgent Need for Energy Access in Gaza | NRC

Unseasonal June winter storm to bring heavy snow and winds to Montana - The Watchers

Yemen: Nearly half the population facing acute food insecurity in some southern areas | UN News

 

Recent Papers of Note

• World Bank. 2025. Unlivable: How Cities in Europe and Central Asia Can Survive and Thrive in a Hotter Future. © World Bank.
• Flores E.C., Fuhr D.C., Simms V., Lescano A.G, Thorogood N. 2025. Beyond the flood: Exploring the psychosocial consequences and resilience challenges in the aftermath of “El Niño” in Tumbes, Peru. . Journal of Climate Change and Health: 24, 100477, ISSN 2667-2782, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2025.100477 .
• Flores, E.C; Mascareñas, C.; Eaton, J.; Kakuma, R.; Flores, A.F.; Haines, A. (2025) Unseen scars: Understanding the mental health burdens of climate change on indigenous and rural Peruvian women. PLOS Climate, 4 (6). e0000527. ISSN 2767-3200 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000527