Hazards and Disaster Risk

Annual Global High-Resolution Extreme Heat Estimates (GEHE), v1 (1983 – 2016) Satellite-Derived Environmental Indicators Overview Download Documents To provide a high-resolution, longitudinal global data set of annual extreme humid-heat.		Food Insecurity Hotspots Data Set, v1 (2009 – 2019) Food Security Overview Download Documents (2) Maps (12) WMS To provide gridded data that identify the level of intensity and frequency of food insecurity over the 10 years between 2009 and 2019, as well as hotspot areas that have experienced consecutive food insecurity events, based on FEWS NET Food Security Data.

Total Carbon Content All Fire Types (2015): South America Hi-Resolution: PDF \| PNG		Total Carbon Content All Fire Types (2015): Oceania Hi-Resolution: PDF \| PNG		Total Carbon Content All Fire Types (2015): North America Hi-Resolution: PDF \| PNG		Total Carbon Content All Fire Types (2015) Hi-Resolution: PDF \| PNG

Changing Global Patterns of Urban Exposure to Flood and Drought Hazards Global Environmental Change Combining SEDAC’s Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) data and Natural Disaster Hotspots flood frequency maps with land cover imagery derived from NASA’s MODIS instrument, the researchers who developed SEDAC’s Global Grid of Probabilities of Urban Expansion data set ask how the global and regional patterns of urban growth in the near future will affect urban susceptibility to floods and droughts. What they found is that the extent of urban areas exposed to floods and drought will generally double by 2030, even without factoring in the potential impacts of climate change.		Turning Schools from Death Traps into Havens Science Times section of The New York Times Map of school-age children in earthquake zones illustrates an accompanying article: following the recent earthquakes in China, experts assess school safety and the vulnerability of children to earthquakes.

Annual Global High-Resolution Extreme Heat Estimates (GEHE), v1 (1983 – 2016)