Is flooding really as big a risk to Britain now as terrorism? Sir Michael Pitt's report on last year's flooding said that the importance of flood risk should be "brought up alongside the risk of terrorism or a major flu pandemic". [News Source]

Are larger fires due to global warming? More than 50 wildfires were burning 342,332 acres across the United States, with California so crowded with fires that national fire maps are too cluttered to read. [News Source]

African lion-killer had help. Two devastating viral disease outbreaks among African lions were accompanied by explosions in a tick-borne disease fueled by exceptional droughts, according to a new study. And climate change could cause more complex die-offs. [News Source]

Climate change to hit harder and faster. Climate change is occurring faster than forecast, and will hit Australian agriculture harder than expected. [News Source]

Global warming could increase terrorism, official says. Global warming could destabilize "struggling and poor" countries around the world, prompting mass migrations and creating breeding grounds for terrorists. [News Source]

U.S. report links climate change to security. Global climate change is likely to trigger humanitarian disasters and political instability that will have a major impact on U.S. national security, a top intelligence official told Congress on Wednesday. [News Source]

Climate change may strain US forces: Intelligence study. US intelligence believes fallout from global climate change over the next 20 years will boost global instability and may place new burdens on US military forces, according to a report delivered to Congress on Wednesday. [News Source]

Global warming as security issue: intelligence report sees threat. Concluding that climate change will have wide-ranging impacts on US security, a classified report complicates an already tangled debate by providing urgent new reasons to address the problem of global warming. [News Source]

Climate change will impact US national security. Climate change will have sweeping consequences for US national security by 2030 aggravating global poverty and destabilizing fragile countries, a US intelligence report said Wednesday. [News Source]

Report links terrorism, climate. Global warming could spur greater political instability across the world as droughts, higher temperatures and rising sea levels aggravate existing problems of poverty, food shortages and conflicts over water, land and other resources. [News Source]

Climate issues tied to U.S. security. U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that global climate change will worsen food shortages and disease exposure in sub-Saharan Africa over the next two decades, creating operational problems for the Pentagon's newest overseas military command. [News Source]