COVID-19 has shown that atypical, transnational security issues need to be taken seriously. Man-made threats are not the only forces that can devastate the globe and fundamentally disrupt daily life. Keep Reading
The ingredients that create all weather events remain the same, but a changing climate can affect one or more of those ingredients, so that it occurs more often or less often — or more intensely or less intensely — over time. Keep Reading
While there are no known direct links between climate change and COVID-19, LaBeaud said, we will likely see an increase in the spread of vector-borne diseases as climate change intensifies. Keep Reading
The rate of increase during 2020 does not appear to reflect reduction in pollution emissions due to the sharp, worldwide economic slowdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Keep Reading
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has opened a new facility to address diseases like COVID-19 as well as food safety and climate change. Keep Reading
Extreme heat can be fatal, and buildings and pavement increase its threat, making some parts of cities up to 20°F hotter than other parts. Keep Reading
Record high levels of greenhouse gas pollution continued to increase the heat trapped in the atmosphere in 2019, according to an annual analysis released by NOAA scientists. Keep Reading
Hundreds of tornadoes raked the nation, including an outbreak of more than 140 tornadoes on April 12 and 13 that wrought a path of destruction from Texas to Maryland, killing more than 30 people. Keep Reading
GAO made several recommendations to GAO in October 2019, which the agency disagrees with and have therefore not been met. These relate to the potentially harmful effects of climate change on human health and the environment. Keep Reading
IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim thanked Member States for detailing their arrangements to address the fallout of the pandemic, in particular concerning extending seafarers’ certificates, in notices that are made available on the IMO website. Keep Reading
A central conclusion from the study is that Australia will struggle to maintain its national security in the face of climate change unless government departments and agencies are well coordinated. Keep Reading
The very fact that you are reading an article about Earth Day here at Homeland Security Today is a reflection of how far our understanding has reached since the first Earth Day in 1970. Keep Reading
After having a record-hot January and its second-hottest February, Earth continued to endure unrelenting heat last month, making March 2020 the second-hottest March on record. Keep Reading
Smoke from the 2019-2020 forest fires in Australia killed ten times as many people than the fires themselves, and hospitalized many thousands. Keep Reading
People living with poor air quality may be more susceptible to COVID-19, and airborne particulate matter may help to spread the virus, says the World Economic Forum, citing various academic studies. Keep Reading
March also was rather soggy, continuing the nation’s wet streak for 2020, according to NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. Keep Reading
A wide-ranging United Nations climate report, released on March 10, shows that climate change is having a major effect on all aspects of the environment, as well as on the health and wellbeing of the global population. Keep Reading
The average February temperature across the contiguous U.S. was 36.2 degrees F (2.4 degrees above the 20th-century average), which ranked in the warmest third of the 126-year record. Keep Reading
initiative is about building community resilience in the face of increasing vulnerability to extreme weather and water events. In People of Weather–Ready Nation, we sit down with some of the people responsible for building a WeatherReady Nation. We recently talked to Mark Ray, Director of Public Works/City Engineer for the City of Crystal, MN. 1.… Keep Reading
The report brings together a panel of national security, intelligence, and military professionals for the first time to analyze the security implications of climate change. Keep Reading