Ideas
Nord Stream Leaks Underline Gray-Zone Risks
Damaging a neighbor’s environment can be easy, cheap, and deniable.
Ideas
Greenland's Melting Ice Has Locked In 10 Inches of Ocean Rise, Study Finds
Observations show the ice sheet is liquifying faster than models predicted.
Threats
‘We Need to Own the Heat The Way We Now Own Night,’ Pentagon Climate Leader Says
Tactical cooling vests and other adaptations will be needed as dangerous temperatures arrive on training ranges and in combat zones.
Ideas
A Success in Norfolk Should Also Be a Warning
One flood-control project took a decade to complete. Lawmakers and feds can’t wait any longer to get the vast bulk of climate-mitigation work going.
Ideas
Climate Change Isn’t a Threat Multiplier. It’s the Main Threat.
Over the next six months, the defense community should champion and help plan a whole-of-society “hyper-response.”
Policy
US Boosts Forces In Europe As NATO Names Russia ‘Most Significant and Direct Threat’
The Pentagon will also base more destroyers in Spain and F-35s in the United Kingdom.
Ideas
The Energy Crisis Is a National-Security Opportunity
It gives Biden the chance to offer a clear narrative: accelerating the move to clean energy is crucial to keeping America safe.
Threats
Climate Change Has FEMA Working Year-Round, Straining Its Workforce
Once just a few months long, "busy season" now lasts all year. That's hurting the volunteers and reservists who supply much of FEMA's surge capability.
Ideas
Why Biden Just Declared Heat Pumps and Solar Panels Essential to National Defense
An environmental engineering professor assesses their place in fighting the climate crisis.
Policy
Biden Invokes Defense Production Act to Boost Clean Energy Manufacturing
“Reducing America’s dependence on gas and oil is critical to U.S. national security,” DepSecDef Hicks said.
Threats
Navy Climate Strategy Lacks Specifics for Reducing Largest Emissions Producers
Climate change is “one of the most destabilizing forces of our time,” Assistant Navy Secretary Meredith Berger said.
Threats
US Needs Better Climate Forecasting, Wargaming, Report Finds
“Considerable work left to do” in Pentagon’s climate efforts.
Threats
New Budget Would Modify Planes, Pursue Hybrid Vehicles To Tackle Climate Change
The Pentagon’s 2023 proposal aims to reduce C-130 drag, modify KC-135 engines, and design a fuel-sipping airframe.
Policy
The Army’s New Decades-Long Climate Strategy Has No Budget
The strategy includes a list of tangible objectives but no corresponding cost estimates.
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