Report: Global warming will stress nations (Moldova.org) The largest threat global warming poses to U.S. security is linked to how it impacts countries less prepared to manage climate change, studies indicate.Climate change alone is unlikely to trigger state failure in any state out to 2030, but the impacts will worsen existing problems -- such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political ... [News Source]

Global warming could increase terrorism, official says (CNN.com) Global warming could destabilize "struggling and poor" countries around the world, prompting mass migrations and creating breeding grounds for terrorists, the chairman of the National Intelligence Council told Congress on Wednesday. [News Source]

Report: Climate change linked to national security (USA Today) Global warming probably will mean more illegal immigration and humanitarian disasters and possibly expanding the terrorism threat against the U.S., intelligence agencies say. [News Source]

Agencies Warn Global Warming Can Increase Terrorism (The New York Sun) WASHINGTON — Global warming is likely to increase illegal immigration, create humanitarian disasters, and destabilize precarious governments and could add to terrorism, all of which could threaten U.S. national security, according to an assessment by American intelligence agencies. "Logic suggests the conditions exacerbated [by climate change] would increase the pool of potential recruits for ... [News Source]

Report: Climate change linked to national security (AP via Yahoo! News) Global warming probably will mean more illegal immigration and humanitarian disasters, undermining shaky governments and possibly expanding the terrorism threat against the U.S., intelligence agencies say. [News Source]

Climate change threatens two-thirds of California’s unique plants, study says. The state's plants are at risk of collapse unless they migrate or are moved to refuges, scientists say. Animals may also be separated from plants on which they depend, according to researchers [News Source]

Can Britain still afford to go green? The housing market is in decline, fuel costs are soaring – and the worst may be yet to come for the global economy. [News Source]

Debating coal’s cost in rural Virginia. Dominion Virginia Power wants to build a large coal-fired plant in a mountain hollow here to meet statewide demand. But it has been met by strong opposition. [News Source]

Oxygen-starved oceans rapidly dying. The world's coastal oceans are in crisis, with oxygen-starved ''dead zones'' increasing by a third in just two years as global temperatures increase with climate change. [News Source]

Shifting sands in Navajoland. Researchers debate the long-term effects of global warming on the region’s precipitation--but a study of climate models published in the journal Science projected that the current drought could become "the new climatology of the American Southwest" in a matter of years or decades. [News Source]

Parasitic diseases plague poor in urban areas, specialist says. Diseases caused by worms and parasites are draining the health and energy of the poorest Americans, a specialist said yesterday, and it may get worse as the climate changes. [News Source]