Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – December 12, 2024

The following posts are useful for general awareness of current physical security threats, natural disaster resilience, preparedness resources, mitigation guidance, and other security-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.

Natural Hazards/Climate Change

• Arctic cold snap and lake-effect snow in Midwest, Northeast to be brief but potent – AccuWeather
• 4 tips to keep you safe during a snow squall – NOAA
• Malibu wildfire grows, thousands remain evacuated but firefighters get break from improving weather – AP
• Atmospheric river brings weather whiplash to East Coast as bomb cyclone develops – AP
• It’s almost winter, but much of the U.S. is still unusually dry – Washington Post
• Can a little La Niña pack a big precipitation punch? – NOAA
• Warmer winters are fueling a growth in algal blooms across the Great Lakes – Conversation
• Second-warmest November on record means that 2024 is likely to be Earth’s hottest year, report says – AP

Operational Resilience

• Executive ‘Hit Lists’ And Wanted Posters: NYPD Warns About Threats To Executives – ABC News
• Homeland Security shares new details of mysterious drone flights over New Jersey – AP
• 2024 Global Insurance Market Report Highlights Climate and Geopolitics as Key Risks – Security Management Magazine
• Wetlands Save Midwest $23B in Flood Control, but Their Future Is at Risk – Homeland Security Today
• UN urges investment in nature to mitigate billion-dollar drought costs – Smart Water Magazine
• Scientists urged to pull the plug on ‘bathtub modeling’ of flood risk – University of California, Irvine
• World Drought Atlas: the global water crisis requires urgent action – Smart Water Magazine
• Biden-Harris Administration Announces Nearly $850 Million to Revitalize Aging Water Infrastructure, Advance Drought Resilience – Department of Interior
• Google, Intersect Power to develop co-located energy parks with $20B of renewables, storage – Utility Dive
• Russian Woman Arrested In U.S. For Alleged Ties To Russian Intelligence – Radio Free Europe

Extremism/Terrorism

• 3 men arrested in Germany over suspected preparations for an Islamic extremist attack – ABC News
• Italian Police Arrest 12 Suspected Neo-Nazis – Barrons
• Far-right extremist plotted terrorist attack at London law firm ‘to intimidate immigrants’ – The Standard
• Upper St. Clair Resident Charged with Lying to FBI Regarding Involvement with Hizballah – DOJ
• Will emergence of HTS in Syria raise level of global terrorism threats? – Guardian