Series of winter storms causes severe flooding in North Africa and Southern Europe
A series of winter storms has caused severe flooding in Morocco, Spain and Portugal in recent days. People have lost their lives in several regions, hundreds of thousands have been forced to leave their homes, and the damage to infrastructure, agriculture and...
Online self-paced course on IPBES and IPCC now available
The EU-funded project RESPIN offers an English-language online self-paced course entitled “IPBES and IPCC: Bridging Science, Policy and Practice.” The course is aimed at participants from science, policy, and practice and can be completed independently. The course...
Virtual flight over the Flaugergues crater on Mars
A new video from the Mars Express mission takes viewers on a virtual flight over one of the most striking structures in the southern Martian highlands: the 245-kilometre-wide impact crater Flaugergues. The animation is based on image data from the High Resolution...
UBA Publication Newsletters: Three editions, many insights – from risk assessment to climate action
On 01 February 2026, the German Environment Agency (UBA) distributed several editions of its UBA publication newsletter. From a disaster risk reduction, risk management, and resilience perspective, several publications are particularly noteworthy: 1) UBA Publications...