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Climate change supercharged late typhoon season in the Philippines, highlighting the need for resilience to consecutive events

A Red Cross volunteer speaks to a man in the Philippines infront of a destroyed house with palm trees in the background.

The 2024 typhoon season in the Philippines was extraordinary, with six typhoons affecting the country within just 30 days, several of them simultaneously active in the region. This clustering of storms in November, never before witnessed in the basin, affected more than 13 million people, destroying lives and livelihoods and putting enormous strain on resources and infrastructure.

10 years of rapidly disentangling drivers of extreme weather disasters

Two women fill up water containers in a refugee camp in Somalia.

In the summer of 2003, a devastating heatwave killed more than 70,000 people across Europe.

Rapid urbanisation and climate change key drivers of dramatic flood impacts in Nepal

A women in Nepal is carried on the back of another women in the rain. There are people in the background and everyone wears rainjackets.

From 26-28 September 2024, extremely heavy rainfall hit Nepal, especially the capital Kathmandu and nearby regions, causing devastating flash floods, landslides and riverine flooding from the Bagmati, Sapakoshi, Narayani, Sardu, Rew, and Nakkhu rivers and their tributaries. In total, 244 people were killed.

Climate change increased Typhoon Gaemi’s wind speeds and rainfall, with devastating impacts across the western Pacific region

A satellite image of typhoon Gaemi, pictured as a swirling mass of cloud close to the island of Taiwan

Typhoon Gaemi (known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Carina) strengthened into a tropical storm on July 20th while tracking northwest towards the Philippines.

Landslide triggering rainfall made more intense by human-induced climate change, devastating highly vulnerable communities in northern Kerala

Members of the White Guard Volunteers caerry out a rescue operation in Chooralmala in Wayanad district of Kerala.

Massive landslides killed hundreds of people in northern Kerala, India following an extreme monsoon downpour on July 30.

Climate change supercharged late typhoon season in the Philippines, highlighting the need for resilience to consecutive events

10 years of rapidly disentangling drivers of extreme weather disasters

Rapid urbanisation and climate change key drivers of dramatic flood impacts in Nepal

Climate change increased Typhoon Gaemi’s wind speeds and rainfall, with devastating impacts across the western Pacific region

Landslide triggering rainfall made more intense by human-induced climate change, devastating highly vulnerable communities in northern Kerala

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