CLIMATE CHALLENGESWinners Announced in DHS $195K Challenge to Counter Extreme Temperatures Published 6 July 2022 DHS announced the winners of the Cooling Solutions Challenge prize competition. The winners were each awarded funding, which totaled $195,000, for their innovative and creative ideas that sought climate-friendly cooling solutions to protect people in extreme heat conditions. DHSannounced the winners

ENERGY SECURITYExploring Explosives for Expanding Geothermal Energy Published 6 July 2022 Geothermal energy has a lot of promise as a renewable energy source that is not dependent on the sun shining or the wind blowing, but it has some challenges to wide adoption. Sandia researchers test explosives and propellants to create geothermal power sites. Why are

OUR PICKSCivilian Cyber Defense | China’s Biomedical Data Hacking Threat | Cislunar Security, and more Published 6 July 2022 ·  Taking the Elf Off the Shelf: Why the U.S. Should Consider a Civilian Cyber Defense ·  Jan. 6 Hearings to Examine Role Extremist Groups, White House Played in Capitol Attack ·  The Three Ps of Amplifying and

CHINA WATCHAmericans Feel More Threatened Than Britons by China’s Rise Published 5 July 2022 Americans were more likely than people living in the UK to feel threatened by China’s growth as a world power, a new survey shows. The research suggests support in both countries for NATO and the UN to act diplomatically and militarily is

WILDFIRESUnprecedented Change in Europe’s Fire Regime Driven by Climate Change Published 5 July 2022 A new study reveals an unprecedented change in the fire regime in Europe which is related to climate change. The study detected summer and spring seasons with unprecedented values of fire risks over the last years, so many areas of southern

EXTREMISMSiege Culture and Accelerationism in the U.K. Published 5 July 2022 Siege Culture, also referred to as accelerationism, has been on the rise in the U.K. and elsewhere since 2016. Both Siege Culture and accelerationism refer to a violent strategy in which terrorism is used to hasten societal collapse by provoking reactions from authorities and

COASTAL CHALLENGESSea Levels Rise and Floods Intensify, So Governments Consider Managed Retreat By Martin Kuebler Published 5 July 2022 As climate changes, rising sea levels and disastrous flooding are becoming ever more common, and they could force billions to move during the next decades. Instead of trying to prolong the inevitable by building sea walls,

PLANETARY SECURITYResearchers Simulate Defense of the Earth Published 5 July 2022 Sixty-six million years ago, a giant asteroid impact on the Earth likely caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Currently no known asteroid poses an immediate threat. But if one day a large asteroid were to be discovered on a collision course with Earth, it

FORWARD DEFENSEAlaska: U.S. Bolsters “Last Frontier” Bases on NATO’s Western Flank By Carla Babb Published 1 July 2022 Despite Alaska’s geographic and environmental challenges, the U.S. military has staked its claim there since the 1860s, when the U.S. bought the territory from Russia and nearly a century before Alaska became a U.S. state. In the

OUR PICKSFunding DHS | It’s Difficult to Get Off a Terrorist List | Technology Tackling People Smugglers, and more Published 5 July 2022 ·  Homeland Security Chief: ‘We Are in a Heightened Threat Environment’ ·  It’s Time for Congress to Break the Continuing-Resolution Cycle for DHS ·  QAnon Explained: Q Returns After 18 Months of Silence ·  How