Compound droughts and hot events or extremes (CDHEs) may lead to larger repercussions
than do individual extremes. Due to the disastrous impacts and increased risk of these …

Populations and infrastructure in high mountain regions are exposed to a wide range of
natural hazards, the frequency, magnitude, and location of which are extremely sensitive to …

Following an unprecedented drought, Australia's 2019/2020 “Black Summer” fire season
caused severe damage, gravely impacting both humans and ecosystems, and increasing …

Landslides are a common natural hazard in Costa Rica, recurrently triggered by seismicity
and extraordinary rainfall. Here, we investigate the coalescence of both processes and their …

The understanding of compounding and cascading impacts is becoming increasingly central
to the risk reduction debate as hazard consequences are strongly coupled. Still, studies on …

Flash floods evolve rapidly in time, which poses particular challenges to emergency
managers. One way to support decision-making is to complement models that estimate the …

Different water related risks such as lake outburst floods and water scarcity are typically
assessed by separate methods and often by separate research communities. However, in a …

Anthropogenic climate change and modification of landscapes—such as deforestation,
sediment movement, irrigation and sea-level rise—can destabilize natural systems and …

The intensity and phase of precipitation at the ground surface can have important
implications for meteorological and hydrological situations, but also in terms of hazards and …

Abstract On July 8, 1998, the deadliest glacier lake outburst flood (GLOF) in Central Asia for
at least the last 100 years occurred in the Shakhimardan catchment, Kyrgyzstan. Most of …