Adelaide University researchers are stress‑testing Australia’s transport networks against severe and extreme weather using the Federal Government’s first National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA) as a baseline and extending it to state and council level assets. The work focuses on road and coastal infrastructure in councils such as the City of Holdfast Bay, examining failure modes under compound hazards like storm surge plus fluvial flooding and prolonged heatwaves. Findings are feeding into corridor‑scale adaptation options, including revised pavement design lives, drainage capacity upgrades and relocation or armouring of low‑lying links.

A slope collapse at an open pit gold mine near Policarpa in Colombia’s Nariño department has killed 13 workers and injured seven, after a night-time landslide buried crews who were later recovered by firefighters and residents using excavators. Local authorities have not confirmed whether the operation had mining permits, despite witnesses saying around 50 people, mainly from the Quillacinga Indigenous group and including four victims from one family, regularly worked the site. The incident again exposes geotechnical and safety risks at Colombia’s largely unregulated artisanal and illegal gold mines, which involve an estimated 200,000–400,000 people.

B&O Developments and director Sanjay Swaminaryan were fined at City of London Magistrates’ Court after members of the public reported unsafe roof work on a Kings Cross site to the Health and Safety Executive. The prosecution centred on workers operating at height without adequate edge protection or fall-arrest systems, breaching the Work at Height Regulations 2005. The case signals that HSE will act on public reports of poor temporary access, scaffolding and roof-work controls, with direct implications for contractors’ site supervision and CDM compliance.