How Communities Around the World Are Using Evidence to Regain a Sense of Control When the sea begins to creep closer each winter, when familiar dunes flatten after a single storm, when cliffs retreat by metres instead of centimetres, it’s easy to feel that nothing can be done. Across the world, coastal communities have been finding a quiet, practical way to steady themselves: they start gathering evidence about what’s happening. This does not to replace experts and the agenci

Could Humanitarian Innovations Offer Solutions to Communities Threatened by Coastal Erosion? Where This Began The starting point was work using drone-based systems to understand glacial retreat in the Alps and rockfall risk on Scottish Highland roads. Watching how relatively simple aerial surveys could reveal patterns in ice movement or identify unstable rock faces raised a question: if these methods could track environmental change in mountains, what else might they document

The newly published NATO volume, Digital Innovations for the Prevention and Treatment of PTSD in Military Contexts , shares the value of community-led approaches to trauma support in conflict zones that are culturally rooted, digitally enabled, and operationally agile. The book documents NATO's military mental health human centric approach and includes a discussion of why the integration of community-based approaches into military mental health strategy matters for anyone wor

In 2025, conflicts across Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Syria, and beyond created disability at a scale unseen in decades. The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project recorded over 240,000 conflict-related deaths from December 2024 to November 2025. In Gaza alone, 4,800 documented limb amputations occurred since October 2023, with ten children losing one or both legs every day. More than 21,000 Palestinian children acquired disabilities during the conflict. In Ukraine, over 2,10