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
- Temperatures to soar as massive heat dome builds over central US - Accu Weather
- What new data reveal about how hurricanes kill - Yale Climate Connections
- NASA Clocks July 2023 as Hottest Month on Record Ever Since 1880 - NASA
- FEMA maps said they weren’t in a flood zone. Then came the rain. - Grist
- On the Highway to Climate Hell - The world's infrastructure was built for a climate that no longer exists. - Foreign Policy
Operational Resilience
- UK National Risk Register 2023 - United Kingdom
- Austin Enters Stage 2 of Drought Contingency Plan - City of Austin, Texas
- As water-related disasters mount, experts push for early warning systems - Smart Water Magazine
- A Regional Response to Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Civil Unrest - Homeland Security Today
Extremism/Terrorism
- Rising political threats take US into uncharted territory as 2024 election looms - AP News
- ‘Release our men’: Far-right used power grid threats to try and blackmail government into freeing neo-Nazi bank robbery suspects - Daily Dot
- Neo-Nazis Are Using Climate Disasters to Recruit New Members - Vice News
- Philadelphia teen arrested, charged in FBI terrorism investigation - ABC News
