3/12/21 Public health Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments More than a half-million Americans are exposed to oil and gas “flaring” events — the burning off of excess natural gas at production sites — resulting in potentially serious health risks, according to new research from USC and UCLA. “Our findings show that flaring is an environmental

Water securitySustainable Water Management Key to Scaling Up Bioenergy Production Published 12 March 2021 To avoid a substantial increase in water scarcity, biomass plantations for energy production need sustainable water management, a new study shows. Bioenergy is frequently considered one of the options to reduce greenhouse gases for achieving the Paris climate goals, especially if combined

3/12/21 Our picks Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  0 DOJ Seeks to Build Large Conspiracy Case against Oath Keepers for Jan. 6 Riot  (Devlin Barrett, Spencer S. Hsu, Aaron C. Davis and Tom Jackman, Washington Post) read more Hits: 0

ExtremismGermany’s Spy Chiefs Urge Court to Agree on Monitoring of Far-Right AfD By Jamie Dettmer Published 11 March 2021 Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says there’s sufficient evidence to warrant labeling the country’s main opposition party, the populist far-right Alternative for Germany, AfD, as “anti-constitutional” and an organization hostile to democracy. Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says there’s

CybersecurityTwo R&D Projects to Enhance Mobile Network Traffic Security Published 11 March 2021 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are jointly announcing the final two research and development (R&D) awards for the newly launched Secure and Resilient Mobile Network Infrastructure (SRMNI) project. The

ARGUMENT: Cyber strategyHow Biden’s Cyber Strategy Echoes Trump’s Published 11 March 2021 On March 3, the Biden administration released its Interim National Security Strategic Guidance. Herb Lin writes that the interim guidance document is, by definition, a work in progress, and one would expect a final guidance document to be roughly consistent with the interim

Nuclear powerHow Fukushima Triggered Germany’s Nuclear Phaseout By Christoph Hasselbach Published 11 March 2021 The Fukushima disaster shook the belief in safe nuclear power to its core. For Germany, it marked a historic turning point for environmentalism. On March 11, 2011, one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded triggered a tsunami off Japan’s Pacific coast. The

Coastal challengesSea-Level Rise up to Four Times Global Average for Coastal Communities Published 11 March 2021 Coastal populations are experiencing relative sea-level rise up to four times faster than the global average – according to new research. is the first to analyze global sea-level rise combined with measurements of sinking land. Coastal populations are experiencing relative

VolcanoesStudy of Redoubt and Other Volcanoes Improves Unrest Detection Published 11 March 2021 Volcanologists do what they can to provide the public enough warning about impending eruptions, but volcanoes are notoriously unpredictable. Alerts are sometimes given with little time for people to react. That may soon change. Volcanologists do what they can to provide the public

Doomsday insuranceSolar-Powered Lunar Ark as “Modern Global Insurance Policy” Published 11 March 2021 Researchers are taking scientific inspiration from an unlikely source: the biblical tale of Noah’s Ark. Rather than two of every animal, however, their solar-powered ark on the moon would store cryogenically frozen seed, spore, sperm and egg samples from 6.7 million Earth