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Outage at Amazon Web Services disrupts websites across the internet Amazon's cloud computing service provides back-end support to many companies that operate online. When it has problems, so do they.

Amazon's cloud computing service provides back-end support to many companies that operate online. When it has problems, so do they.

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.

(Published July)

Hundreds evacuating from hardest hit Western Alaska villages following storm Nearly all the homes in both towns were damaged and a tribal administrator said it was unsafe to stay.

As authorities end their large-scale search, volunteers and village public safety officers vow to keep looking for two residents whose home floated away in the storm.

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FEMA buyouts vs. risky real estate: New maps reveal post-flood migration patterns across the US In general, people are moving to safer homes after disasters, but the vast majority are selling, meaning someone else is now taking on that risk. Buyout programs can help.

FEMA buyouts vs. risky real estate: New maps reveal post-flood migration patterns across the US

8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.

The continents are rapidly drying out and the earth’s vast freshwater resources are under threat, according to a recently released study based on 20+ years of NASA satellite data.

Here are the report’s key findings and what they portend for humankind.

Dogs are helping people regulate stress even more than expected, research shows A new study finds that dogs’ mitigation of human stress is more biologically complex than scientists previously understood.

Dogs may have a more profound impact on reducing human stress levels than previously thought. They regulate both major stress pathways in the brain, keeping us in a healthy "sweet spot" for handling stress, according to researchers.

Every NYC subway signal upgrade is far behind schedule, MTA consultant says MTA Chair Janno Lieber regularly says he delivers projects "on time and on budget." The agency's push to upgrade aging subway equipment is neither.

The MTA’s multi-billion-dollar push to upgrade the subway’s aging signal system is years behind schedule and millions over budget, according to a report by one of the agency’s consultants on Monday.

"Social media users are tired of losing their identity and data every time a platform shuts down or pivots. In the ATProto ecosystem, users own their data and identities. Bluesky is the first big example, but a new wave of decentralized social networks is just beginning."

Billion-dollar disasters: The economic toll of wildfires, severe storms and earthquakes is soaring A new report highlights the growing insurance crisis playing out in parts of the country that are prone to frequent weather disasters.

Weather disasters in the first half of 2025 have cost the US $93 billion in damage

“We have seen some 90% of all losses for the insurance industry — so $72 out of $80 billion — have happened in the US. That’s extraordinary”...

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Americans face an insurability crisis as climate change worsens disasters – a look at how insurance companies set rates and coverage Insurance costs are rising quickly across much of the country. Hurricanes are part of the reason, but it’s the other perils common across the Midwest and Great Plains that complicate costs.

As #climaterisk grows, "Americans face an insurability crisis that disrupts wider financial stability"

Homeowners insurance up 11.3% in 2023, property reinsurance up 35%

if this continues, "real estate prices will start to decline in exposed locations"

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The Berlin Wall Never Fell It Didn't

"We cannot change the world all at once. But we can change the way we think. We can clear away the clichés and make ourselves more lively. We can work together and then, when other things are in motion, be ready to turn the change in the right direction."
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Thank you for this starter pack for EM professionals! 🫡

Starting up an #emergencymanagement practitioner feed for folks on the ground. If you're interesting in working in and around disaster, you're going to need to meet so, so many of these amazing folks.

Will add as I find #emgtwitter transplants.

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