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

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)

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.

New York City may struggle to keep the lights on as early as next summer with longer and more frequent power outages: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/ERuBF9

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

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 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.

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."

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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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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"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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