Hurricane Lala downgraded after skirting Big Island as one person dies and over 130,000 households are without power
‘We have lost everything’: extreme rainfall across Asia brings flash floods and typhoons
From Afghanistan to Taiwan, unprecedented deluge highlights devastating impact of climate breakdown
Tropical Storm Chan-hom weakens and departs Japan after causing power outages and injuries
Business in the Tokyo area was almost back to normal after a tropical storm weakened to a depression and left Japan.
Death toll from devastating floods in Nepal and China surpasses 1,000
Rescue efforts continue to focus on hydropower sites, where hundreds of workers are believed to be trapped.
One shock after another: Why fragile economies are falling further behind?
Fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS) never fully exited the pandemic recession and now face renewed stress from a major Middle East–driven energy shock. Nearly 60% of FCS economies still have lower real income per capita than in 2019 (vs 18% in other EMDEs), with poverty and food insecurity concentrated in non-recovered countries. The blog points to three main drags—high debt, conflict, and larger disaster losses—and calls for conflict prevention, macro stability, fiscal space, jobs, and sustained support.
Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes off Indonesia’s coast, killing at least 47 and toppling buildings
A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake has struck off Indonesia's coast, killing at least 47 people and causing widespread panic.
High winds and fires mean power outages. Here's how to prep
With high winds and fire danger comes power outages — unplanned due to downed trees and planned to try to prevent fires. We have some tips on making it…
How Big Banks Are Putting Rain Forests in Peril (Published 2016)
Global lenders, sometimes flouting their own policies, have financed projects in Indonesia and elsewhere that destroy ecosystems and contribute to climate change.
Scorched Harvest: The Strongest El Niño Ever Forecast, the Crops in Its Path, and the Hunger It Will Leave Behind
How 3.6 degrees of warm water in the tropical Pacific is about to redraw the map of global hunger and why, this time, no one in power can claim they were not warned.
Guerilla Fighters in West Papua Are Facing Extermination by Indonesia's High-Tech Forces
The West Papua National Liberation Army has resisted counterinsurgency in the Star Mountains for decades. Drop Site spoke with guerilla leader Lamek Taplo a week before he was killed.
Nepal floods death toll tops 900, as number of missing nearly doubles to more than 4,200
Rescuers continue to struggle to reach communities days after the massive flooding that stemmed from a glacier collapse on the Nepal-Tibet border region Wednesday.
A Luxury Survivalist Community Is Tearing Itself Apart
They went to South Dakota to ride out the apocalypse at a ‘5-star’ bunker compound. They’re already at each other’s throats with HOA-style grievances.
Nicky Case: The Attractors Behind Disasters
Cuba’s power grid collapses in third nationwide blackout amid US oil blockade
Network breakdowns compounded by daily blackouts of up to 12 hours caused by fuel shortages
The real mystery behind Moana: after 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?
New evidence suggests a massive centuries-long drought may be part of the answer.
Causal Islands Los Angeles · Luma
Causal Islands LA is the first community edition of the 2023 conference held in Toronto in 2023. Causal Islands at a high level is about the future of…
