The following posts are useful for general awareness of current physical security threats, natural disaster resilience, preparedness resources, mitigation guidance, and other security-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.
Natural Hazards/Climate Change
- Northeast faces mix of hot air and powerful storms - Accu Weather
- Summertime heat returning with a vengeance in the Midwest, will help spark severe storms - Accu Weather
- US midwest braces for hottest days this summer, with 55m under heat alerts - Guardian
- Alaska city issues evacuation orders after landslide leaves 1 dead and 3 injured. Officials worry another slide could strike - CNN
- Heat waves, wildfires and now … snow? California endures a summer of extremes - AP
- Hone swirls past Hawaii’s main islands after dumping enough rain to ease wildfire fears - AP
- Australia records hottest ever winter temperature with some areas set to be 10C above average - Guardian
- Heat-related deaths spiked 117% in the US since 1999 - CNN
- New study suggests climate change will make hail bigger and more costly - Washington Post
- Unusually cold storm that frosted West Coast peaks provided a hint of winter in August - AP
- International report confirms record-high global temperatures, greenhouse gases in 2023 - NOAA
- Highlights from 'State of the Climate in 2023' - NOAA
Operational Resilience
- Experts: Canada’s two major railways resume service as railroaders return to work - McGill University
- Arbitration hearing between Canadian railroads and union ends with no decision on back-to-work order - ABC News
- Hydropower Generation Projected to Rise, but Climate Change Brings Uncertain Future - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Six ways that Argonne leads the way in hydropower - Argonne National Laboratory
- Improving Infrastructure Planning Is Essential To Delivery - Water Online
- This Texas City Is Too Hot, Short on Water—and Booming - Wall Street Journal
- 2 freight trains collided in Colorado, damaging a bridge, spilling fuel and injuring 2 crew - AP
- Sharing risk to avoid power outages in an era of extreme weather - Stanford University
- Blackouts in extreme weather drive demand for cleaner backup power - AP
- Texas Police Say Thieves Swiping Copper Off Power Lines 'Right Before Your Eyes:' 'They’ll Go To Any Length' - Fox News
- Global increase in water-related conflict, study reveals - Smart Water Magazine
Extremism/Terrorism
- Las Vegas teenager plotted ISIS-inspired terror attack, built bombs in room: documents - 8NewsNow.com
- Virginia man who made ricin and alarmed his own militia pleads guilty - Washington Post
- Arizona man sought in connection to threats against former President Donald Trump is arrested, law enforcement says - CNN
- US military says it killed leader of Al Qaeda-aligned group in Syria - Reuters
- Armed and Underground: Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American Militia - ProPublica
