Articles
All-Hazards:
When Smoke Is in the Air, All Eyes Turn to This NOAA Weather Model (HS Today)
A Pandemic of Wildfire: Part 1 & Part 2 (Discover) and Humans Cause 97 Percent of Home-Threatening Wildfires (HS Newswire)
Hurricane Laura Predictions More Accurate With Better Modeling, Faster Computers (ABC News)
Did Something Burp? It Was an Earthquake (NY Times)
How Powerful Hurricanes Hasten the Disappearance of Louisiana’s Wetlands (Nat Geo)
How Apocalyptic This Fire Season Is — In 1 Flaming Chart (Grist)
Resilience:
Americans Back Tough Limits on Building in Fire and Flood Zones (NY Times)
Wildfires Hasten Another Climate Crisis: Homeowners Who Can’t Get Insurance (NY Times)
Public Health / Biosurveillance:
Substantial Underestimation of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in the United States (Nature Communications)
Projected Health-care Resource Needs for an Effective Response to COVID-19 in 73 Low-income and Middle-income Countries: A Modelling Study (Lancet Global Health)
Protecting Yourself from the Health Dangers of Wildfire Smoke (EM / Gov Tech)
Survey Shows Nurses Still Having to Reuse PPE for COVID Patients (EM / Gov Tech)
State of the Nation: A 50-State COVID-19 Survey: Report #10: The Pandemic and the Protests (NPS)
DHS Transferring Ownership of National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility to USDA for Research, Vaccine Development (Homeland Prep News)
Feds cited 1 in 4 Arizona Nursing Homes During The Coronavirus Pandemic (AZCentral)
Real-time Gene Sequencing Can Help Control — and May Someday Prevent — Pandemics (STAT News)
Critical Infrastructure & Cyber:
States Experiment With Automation to Bolster Cybersecurity (Pew: Rt. Fifty)
Combatting Potential Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack (HS Newswire)
Energy Security: What’s Ailing California’s Electric System? (HS Newswire) and DHS Releases New Report On Electromagnetic Pulse Attacks (Homeland Prep News)
U.S. Agencies Must Adopt Vulnerability-Disclosure Policies by March 2021 (Threat Post)
Strained Rural Water Utilities Buckle Under Pandemic Pressure (Pew: Stateline)
Innovations & Interconnections:
Why Human Brains Are Bad At Assessing the Risks of Pandemics (The Washington Post)
Social Inflation, Low Interest Rates, Rising Catastrophes: Recipe for a Hard Re-Insurance Market (Ins. Journal)
U.S. Regulators Woke Up and Realized Climate Change Could Cause a Financial Crisis (Grist)
From Brassville to... (working title) 