[Aug 29, 2026] A Changing Climate comes with Extreme Floods and Mudflows: The deadly flash flood and mudflow in Nepal and neighboring countries on August 26, 2026 was the result of a catastrophic breakdown of a large part of a glacier in the Himalayas. There are reasons to assume that the friction between ice masses of the glacier and the underlying rock was reduced because of a changing climate bring higher temperatures into the region.
We can expect that increasing temperatures will destabilize many other regions global and cause hazards of unprecedented type and intensity. These hazards will often interact with a build environment not prepared for these new hazards. An example are the extreme precipitation events and the many aging reservoir dams in many countries, including the USA. The extreme events can easily lead to a breaking of the dams and extreme flash floods.
Immediate climate adaptation of the built environment, including planning of land use, must be an integral effort in and disaster risk governance.

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[Apr 25, 2026] Women are ‘the first to die’: Mariana Rosetti and Paola Churchill in the article “Three disasters in three years: Brazil’s deadly floods show women are ‘the first to die’ when extreme weather hits” published in the Guardian point out that the changing climate is accelerating the frequency of devastating weather-related events across the world that displacing millions and disproportionately affecting women. Based on three extreme events in Brazil, the authors underline that the built environment is not prepared for these events.

[Apr 22, 2026] Extreme Heat is Impacting Food Security: In the article “World food systems ‘pushed to the brink’ by extreme heat, UN warns” by Fiona Harvey published in the Guardian, the author reports on a warning by the UN that extreme heat is severely stressing food systems. Richard Waite, the director of agriculture initiatives at the World Resources Institute commented: “Without adaptation, extreme heat will cut crop and livestock yields, forcing more land into agriculture to maintain food production. That would drive even higher emissions from land use change, which in turn would make climate impacts on agriculture even worse.”

[Apr 19, 2026] Earth Energy Imbalance is Increasing Rapidly: Finally the extreme increase in the Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) is slowly starting to make headlines - far too late, though. The article “ What are zettajoules – and what do they tell us about Earth’s energy imbalance?” by Jonathan Watts published in the Guardian explains some of the basics. Importantly, the EEI double within only 13 years. In another article by Watts also in the Guardian and titled “ Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high” the author points out that the World Meteorological Organization warned that Earth is struggling with a record energy imbalance, which is warming the oceans to unprecedented levels, making weather more extreme and threatening health and food supplies. Considering that Earth is more like a pool house with a very large pool than a greenhouse, the ocean is only delaying the heating of the atmosphere but not preventing it.

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[Aug 29, 2026] TLNP VCC opened: The "Towards Less Noice Pollution VCC" has been initialized and is open now.

[Aug 03, 2026] Alliance of World Scientists Declares Planetary Emergency: In the paper “ World scientists’ warning to humanity: a third notice” the Alliance of World Scientists includes the “Declaration of a planetary emergency.” The declaration states: “We, the undersigned, recognize that Earth is now in a state of planetary emergency. Climate change, biodiversity loss, land and freshwater degradation, pollution, and unsustainable production and consumption are destabilizing the Earth system that supports all life.”
You can sign the declaration here ...

[Aug 03, 2026] Hothouse Earth: arriving sooner than you think…: Julian Cribb writes in his latest blog: “Latest measurements, carefully analysed to exclude anomalies such as El Nino, reveal a planet cooking up at a steady 0.48 degrees per decade since 2015, in what is thought to be the most rapid heating event in all its geological history.” We are experiencing the most rapid heating event in Earth's billions of years long history! We have caused this event with a few hundred years of sole focus on unlimited growth using all the ancient solar energy accumulated by Earth's biosphere over more than 250 million years - just because we could! That is something to reflect on!

[Jun 04, 2026] ‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: This is what the Global Justice Report published today makes very clear. Read the article by Jonathan Watts in the Guardian as an introduction. While this equal and habitable world is still possible, it is very unlikely that we will transition to this world as long as greedy and unethical billionaires supported by governments they own compete to be the first trillionaire. The report underlines that the fight for an equal and habitable world has to be a fight against a system that rewards extraction and depletion of all resources and requires infinitely growing consumption devouring the Earth's life-support system; a system designed to increase inequality and sustain the exploitation of almost all to serve the greed of a few!