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Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, erupted on 11 February 2025 and a huge ash cloud formed as lava spewed from the south-east crater. Since 17 February, the eruption has been affecting air traffic in Italy due to the spreading ash cloud, while lava flows continue to expand. Fortunately, they are travelling in a direction […]

The National Center for Resilience has launched a serious game for children between the ages of 6 and 12: ‘Are you prepared?’ The game is designed to help children engage with natural hazards and learn how to prepare for extreme weather events, stay safe and recover. It promotes awareness of safety measures through playful learning. […]

The National Interdisciplinary Climate Risk Assessment NiKE examines the significant impacts of climate change, with a particular focus on Germany, the European Union and global geopolitics. The analysis shows how the climate crisis is increasingly threatening security in Germany and Europe and what consequences this development entails. In Germany, extreme weather events such as heatwaves, […]

Today we received some wonderful gifts from our project partners in Myanmar, which we are very happy about. We are particularly excited about a calendar containing valuable information and facts about heat. This was developed as part of a local workshop and helps to raise awareness of the effects of heat. We also received a […]

The closest and smallest planet to the sun in our solar system, Mercury, fascinates researchers with its extreme temperature differences and lack of an atmosphere. Scientists from DLR, TU Berlin, KIT and Charles University in Prague have investigated geophysical processes on and inside the planet. Their surprising findings, published in Geophysical Research Letters, provide valuable […]

Resilience, crisis management and communication, technological innovations and international cooperation – these were the topics discussed by over 900 participants from science, research, administration and practice at the ‘Research for Civil Protection 2025’ conference. Current challenges and innovative solutions in civil protection and civil defence were the focus of the second specialist congress organised by […]

Franziskus Bayer and Margit Schild Franziskus Bayer, an expert in organisational resilience and crisis management and DKKV member, and artist/engineer Dr Margit Schild have been working together since summer 2024 on the interfaces between art and crisis, creativity and disaster. This was preceded by a DKKV lunchtalk by Margit Schild in June 2024, in which […]

On January 30, a thematic day against ‘Hochwasser-Demenz’ took place in Rees, organized by the Deichverband, to mark the 30th anniversary of a flood event from 1995. ‘Hochwasser-Demenz’ illustrates how quickly people forget a flood disaster, and with it, the importance of implementing flood protection measures. A series of diverse lectures addressed key topics related […]

The Greek island of Santorini in the Mediterranean has been hit by a series of earthquakes for almost two weeks with around 6400 tremors so far. The strongest quake to date occurred on Wednesday evening (5 February 2025) and reached a magnitude of 5.2 (Alexandridi, 2025). The epicentre of the quakes is located under the […]