Category: Extreme Weather
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Empowering a resilient future through innovative climate financing
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18593780 Water and Climate Leader @ Green Climate Fund | Strategic Investment Partnerships and Co-Investments| Professor| EW4ALL| Board Member| Chair- CODATA TG February 5, 2026 Climate-related hazards are increasing in frequency and severity, threatening decades of development gains. Last year alone, extreme floods, storms, and droughts caused hundreds of billions in economic losses worldwide and…
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Multi-Year El Niño Events Increasingly Threaten Global Communities
A study published in Nature Geoscience has revealed that multi-year El Niño events have become five times more frequent over the past 7,000 years. By analyzing fossil coral data and using advanced climate models, researchers discovered that these events, which now last for two or more years, have evolved from occurring every 3.5 years to…
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Beyond the Horizon: Projecting Bhutan’s Water Future in a Changing Climate
My journey with Bhutan, the Land of the Thunder Dragon, has been a long and fulfilling one. From supporting their hydro-met services to developing flood forecasting in the Wangchhu River Basin (https://lnkd.in/gj7aW5aN), conducting climate risk assessments for hydro-power and water resources management, and building capacity on disaster risk reduction – it’s been a deeply rewarding experience.…
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The Brown Ocean Effect: How Soil Moisture Re-energizes Cyclones
Cyclones typically lose power once they move over land. However, new research shows that if the storm passes over warm, soaked ground, the moisture and heat from the soil can re-energize the hurricane. This mimics the way that the warm ocean usually fuels the storms. As climate change increases extreme weather events, understanding this phenomenon…
Bapon (SHM) Fakhruddin, PhD 