Climate challengesMore Weather-Related Disasters Over Past 50 Years, Causing More Damage but Fewer Deaths Published 3 September 2021 A disaster related to a weather, climate, or water hazard occurred every day on average over the past 50 years – killing 115 people and causing $ 202 million in losses daily. But while the number of

Water securityAs Western U.S. Is Experiencing a 1,000 Year Drought, Desalination Could Be a Solution By Renee Cho Published 3 September 2021 The Western United States is currently experiencing what one paleoclimatologist called “potentially the worst drought in 1,200 years.” The region has had many droughts in the past, including “megadroughts” that last decades, but

Our picksHarsh Climate Reality: U.S. Not Ready | Feds’ Facial Recognition Systems | Islamists Struggling for Recruits, and more Published 3 September 2021 ·  Overlapping Disasters Show Harsh Climate Reality: The U.S. Is Not Ready ·  The Storm Warnings Were Dire. Why Couldn’t the City Be Protected? ·  Hurricane Ida: 2 Reasons for Its Record-Shattering Rainfall in

FloodsAt Least 23 Killed in Flooding in New York City, New Jersey Published 2 September 2021 At least 23 people have died across New York City and New Jersey as a result of the historic flash flooding caused by the weather system formerly known as Hurricane Ida. The storm dumped so much rain in New

AfghanistanCalculating the Costs of the Afghanistan War in Lives, Dollars and Years By Neta Crawford Published 2 September 2021 The war in Afghanistan, like many other wars before it, began with optimistic assessments of a quick victory and the promise to rebuild at war’s end. President George W. Bush warned of a lengthy campaign, but

BIG PICTURE: “A grasp of history”Afghanistan Always Defeats the West Published 2 September 2021 William Dalrymple, a Scottish historian and author of Return of a King: the Battle for Afghanistan 1839-42, writes that the West’s 20-year failed effort in Afghanistan was as inevitable as it was predictable for anyone with “a grasp of history”: In

FloodsAt Least 9 Killed in Flooding in New York City, New Jersey Published 2 September 2021 At least eight people have died across New York City and New Jersey as a result of the historic flash flooding caused by the weather system formerly known as Hurricane Ida. The storm dumped so much rain in New

Cybersecurity educationCybersecurity education Help Communities Become More Cyber Secure Published 2 September 2021 The NSA helps fund programs aiming to develop a community-wide K-12 cybersecurity program, support local industry and government to be more cyber resilient, and help local academic institutions to develop cybersecurity programs for students. The National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity, as

Cybersecurity educationHardware-Cybersecurity Education Program Published 2 September 2021 Many commonly reported cyberattacks focus on computer software vulnerabilities. But what about computer hardware? As complex global supply chains are stressed by the pandemic, risks increase of corporate or state espionage via hardware, such as malicious “trojan” circuits hidden on a motherboard by a shady third-party vendor. Phishing

DisastersNew Orleans Residents Have Decisions to Make as Long Recovery from Hurricane Ida Begins By Matt Haines Published 31 August 2021 New Orleans and utility officials spent Monday assessing the severity of the damage, but private energy provider Entergy Corporation confirmed that 216 substations and 2,000 miles of transmission lines — including a tower that