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To mark its 75th anniversary, Germany’s Federal Agency for Technical Relief (Technisches Hilfswerk, THW) is celebrating its long-standing service with a series of events, large-scale exercises, and campaigns throughout the year. One of the highlights was a festive ceremony held on May 17 in Bonn, which officially launched the nationwide anniversary activities and was met […]

Unusually heavy rainfall in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires since May 16, 2025, has caused massive flooding in the agricultural region. Over the course of just three days, some areas recorded more than 400 millimeters of rain – with San Antonio de Areco receiving over 260 mm in just 24 hours [1,2]. More than […]

A recent report published in the Behörden Spiegel (German Public Sector Journal) warns of the growing dangers posed by climate change – in particular, the creeping normalization of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, droughts, and heavy rainfall. Experts from the German Meteorological Service (DWD) and the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance […]

The new book “Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk”, by Ben Wisner, Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, JC Gaillard, Ilan Kelman, and Victor Marchezini explains that disasters are not natural events, but the result of long-term social processes that create vulnerabilities and limit options for action. It analyzes how human interventions in the environment and power relations contribute to […]

Another RISKKAN webinar on the topic “WG Cities and Critical Infrastructure ‘Societal resilience and infrastructure – who is forgotten in post-disaster recovery?’ will take place on June 13, 2025 at 1 pm. Prof. Dr. Alexander Fekete, personal member of DKKV, and Mark Pelling will lead this event. Dr. Atif Bilal Aslam will give a presentation […]

At the 8th Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRIM) Online Lecture Series on 26.05.2025 at 1 pm, Prof. van Westen, Professor of Multi-Hazard Risk Dynamics at the University of Twente (Netherlands) will give an insight into his publication “Multi-Hazard Risk Dynamics”. Prof. van Westen has been researching the analysis and management of natural hazards for many years […]

The International Fire and Rescue Equipment Exhibition (IFRE-EXPO) 2025 will take place from June 12 to 14, 2025 in Kielce, Poland, and is the largest trade fair for firefighting equipment in Central and Eastern Europe. The trade fair is aimed at manufacturers, dealers and trade visitors from the fire and rescue industry. The focus is […]

At the end of April 2025, the German Weather Service (DWD), an institutional member of DKKV, put the new ICON-D2 Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) weather forecast model into operation, which was specially developed for short-term forecasts of up to 14 hours. The model enables forecasts to be updated every hour and makes them available around […]

With the founding of the DLR Institute of Space Research on May 1, 2025 in Berlin-Adlershof, the German Aerospace Center, which is an institutional member of DKKV, is pooling its expertise in planetary research and optical sensor systems. The institute develops innovative instruments for space travel, earth observation and security research and cooperates closely with […]