With great sadness, we confirm that an MSF colleague was killed, and two more were injured, during intense fighting that erupted over the weekend in and around #Pieri, in South Sudan.

Revivez le concert des stars de la musique africaine contre le Covid-19 musique.rfi.fr/musique-africa…

Le coronavirus a aggravé une situation déjà chaotique pour la population civile libyenne et les #migrants bloqués en #Libye. Sacha Petiot, chef de mission #MSF, revient sur la situation dans le pays. bit.ly/2YjJ8bH

Tomorrow, TV weather forecasters globally will use the #warmingstripes to remind viewers that the planet is still warming. #MetsUnite showyourstripes.info. Ontario Canada & everywhere needs to decarbonize. We need systemic change & green recovery=pandemic & climate-resilience

A piercing article about institutionalized racism in the humanitarian sector. “If international organisations believe in localisation, then it is not a matter of whether it is viable but rather making it happen.” gu.com/p/e3n5e/stw

We’re relieved to know that the 10th deadliest #Ebola outbreak in history is over. For nearly two years, our teams at MSF International and other partner orgs have been hard at work in #DRCongo to treat patients & support local health facilities. x.com/MSF_WestAfrica…

Officially announcing the Columbia Climate School dedicated to addressing the climate crisis and challanges our planet faces with sustainability issues today. It's also the first new school at Columbia University in 25 years! blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/07/10/col…

While its possible something may develop outside the tropics again, I'm not seeing anything in the Tropical Atlantic developing in at least the next 10 days. The actual tropics remain quiet.

Proud to publish: 'Calibrating to scale' that adapts the World Health Organization (WHO) operational framework for climate-resilient health systems for humanitarian orgs. Concrete real-world examples demonstrate how to mitigate & adapt to deliver sustainable humanitarian healthcare at 1.5+ MSF Australia and MSF New Zealand

Watching new ECMWF 12z HiRes and then ensembles come in weathermodels.com A tropical wave will likely have a well defined surface circulation by Saturday morning. Embedded in a favorable moist environment. Expectation is a powerful hurricane in a week or so.

Un ciel sans avions, des routes sans camions, des océans sans super-cargos, une vie simple et un commerce local. Voilà la grande trouille du patronat : que nous vivions mieux, que la planète respire.

Just to recap my recent tweets & plots regarding this Atlantic Hurricane Season: -The tropical Atlantic is warm (top 5 warmest on record) -Wind shear is low (top 5 lowest on record) -Surface pressures are low (6th lowest on record) -N Africa is very wet, (possibly record wet)

"Unlike severe storms such as Hurricane Maria, the silent scourge of extreme heat can ravage communities without being named or categorized," Smithsonian Magazine. #EHRA is changing this by championing the development of a standard to name and rank heat waves. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/coa…

We are blind to a potential huge risk - heatwaves in Africa. Disaster databases are blank, says Dr Friederike Otto, & we need to 1. Record heatwave impacts 2. Develop early warning systems 3. Define heat-health relationships in urban/rural areas of the tropics nature.com/articles/s4155…

Awesome article. Really important results - the Red Cross is using GloFAS forecasts, and this would avoid lots of false alarms, esp at long lead-times. Are the ensemble-reforecast thresholds operational in GloFAS now? Ervin Zsoter Prof. Liz Stephens Florian Pappenberger Hannah Cloke

.Bureau of Meteorology, Australia and NOAA both confirm that #LaNiña has formed in the tropical Pacific, with climate models suggesting it's likely to remain until at least the end of 2020. bom.gov.au/climate/enso/o… and climate.gov/enso

The likelihood of #LaNiña is 90% or higher all the way through winter. #iriforecast

Temperatures anomalies over the last 9 months in Siberia... it has been an extraordinary year of weather/climate extremes [Data from JRA-55 reanalysis]

Cholera is preventable and treatable, global vaccine shortages are not ok and evermore essential this is a climate sensitive disease and many people are already suffering in outbreaks

People in #SouthSudan already struggle to cope with conflict, displacement and a lack of healthcare. Now they are threatened by #ClimateChange too: For the 4th year straight extreme floods are destroying homes, crops and lives. 🇸🇸 can't fix this by itself. What can be done? 🧵👇