Editorial Opinion from WashPost: After ‘a massive global failure’ on covid, what happens the next time?

From Politico: 6 charts that show how money and influence shaped the world’s Covid plan. Four leading health organizations played a major part in envisioning and founding critical programs to develop, secure and distribute Covid tests, vaccines and treatments.

From Time: Rising Seas Are Going to Create a Huge Property Tax Headache for Coastal Communities. Thanks to Elaine Sudanowicz for the citation.

From HSToday this 41 page report: Coast Guard Unprepared for Tsunamis, GAO Says. A full rupture of the Cascadian Subduction Zone fault could injure over 107,000 people, result in nearly 14,000 deaths, and severely damage approximately 620,000 buildings, 2,000 schools, 100 hospitals, and all seaports on the Pacific Northwest coast.

New Congressional Research Service Report (34 pp): Management of the Colorado River: Water Allocations, Drought, and the Federal Role

Although this article is off the main topic of this site, the Diva thinks it is worth considering. From The Conversation: When tragedy becomes banal: Why news consumers experience crisis fatigue

From HSWIRE: Mental Health Researchers Offer Insights on Overcoming Trauma

On a December morning in 1988, a massive earthquake tore through northern Armenia, devastating the small Caucasus country. Over 25,000 died – two-thirds of whom were children. As part of the international relief efforts that followed, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals from all over the world traveled to Armenia to kick off a remarkable and sustained mental health relief and research program which would
last for two decades.

From the WashPost, these photos and descriptions of the massive flooding ongoing in Pakistan.

One more article on the topic.

From The Conversation: America’s summer of floods: What cities can learn from today’s climate crises to prepare for tomorrow’s

New Report from the Hazards Center in CO: From the Ashes: Mitigation Policy After Wildfire in California