FLOODSNew AI Flood Model Gives Water Managers Up-to-the-Minute Decision-Making Tool

By Angela Nicoletti

The predictive model is capable of crunching real-time data to address dangerous situations, according to new research

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POWER-GRID PROTECTIONProtecting the Grid with Artificial Intelligence

The electric grid powers everything from traffic lights to pharmacy fridges, but it regularly faces threats from severe storms and advanced attackers. New neural network detects physical issues, cyberattacks.

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FOOD SECURITYThe Rising Threat to New York City’s Food System

By Ilana Schwartz

The Hunts Point Food Distribution Center, the largest of its kind in the country, serves as the penultimate stop for 4.5 billion pounds of food that feed the city and surrounding areas each year. Losing access to that hub could be catastrophic for a city that produces almost none of its own food.

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HURRICANE KATRINA: 20 YEARS ON20 Years After Katrina, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking and Short on Money

By Jake Bittle

The city’s $14 billion flood system faces new threats from climate change, land subsidence, and Trump budget cuts.

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PLANETARY SECUITYAsteroid Hunting Using Heliostats?

Most planetary defense efforts use observatory-grade telescopes to produce images of the stars. Within those images, computational methods identify streaks, which are asteroids. This process is precise but time-consuming, and building new observatories is expensive. A Researcher says that heliostats, which typically turn solar energy into electricity, could help find asteroids at night. Most planetary defense efforts use observatory-grade telescopes to produce images of the stars. Within those images, computational methods identify streaks, which are asteroids. This process is precise but time-consuming, and building new observatories is expensive. A Researcher says that heliostats, which typically turn solar energy into electricity, could help find asteroids at night.

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CRITICAL MINERALSU.S. Moves Decisively to Avoid Dependence on China’s Rare Earths

By David Uren

The Pentagon’s package of support for rare earths company MP Minerals, announced on 10 July, should free the US military and eventually much of US industry from dependence on Chinese supply chains for rare earth magnets.

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TEXAS FLOODSThe Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come

By Abrahm Lustgarten

Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

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