From the WashPost Magazine: The Hard Lessons We Learned — and Didn’t — From Two Years in Pandemic School. This may not even be the Big One. We must prepare for doomsday, act faster and respect evolution.

From the Congressional Research Service, this 32 page report: FEMA Hazard Mitigation: A First Step Toward Climate Adaptation

From the WashPost: A year after Texas cold spell, study shows renewable energy could help prevent blackouts. Electricity blackouts could be avoided across the nation by switching to solar, wind and water energy sources, the report argues

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From the Congressional Research Service, this 3 page report: COVID-19: The Way Forward

From The Guardian: US sea level to rise as much in next 30 years as in past century.  Seas rising faster around the US than global average will cause ‘dramatic increase’ in number of people vulnerable to flooding

From Politico: The Covid Emergency Is Ending. Here’s What We Should Do Next.
It’s time for a new scientifically feasible and politically sustainable strategy to make the coming lull in the pandemic permanent.

From HSNW: Post-disaster traumas, children | Homeland Security Newswire. Natural disasters are typically accompanied by a flood of gruesome images on TV and social media. These images can have a powerful psychological impact on children – whether those children are physically in the line of danger or watching from thousands of miles away.

From Homeland Security News Wire: Survivors of Weather-Related Disasters May Suffer Accelerated Aging

From Inside Climate News: One Year Later: The Texas Freeze Revealed a Fragile Energy System and Inspired Lasting Misinformation.  Power outages in February 2021 were largely a failure of the natural gas system, a reality that state officials don’t acknowledge, blaming wind energy instead.