Climate change seen as threat to US security. The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the US in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, military and intelligence analysts say. [News Source]

Climate change seen as threat to US security. The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the US in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, military and intelligence analysts say. [News Source]

Digging for victory: Britain’s food revolution. The UK must become more self-sufficient and increase food production on a big scale to cope with dwindling global sources. [News Source]

Solar industry’s promises bring environmental challenges for Tennessee. As the state tries to reap the benefits of a growing solar industry that could bring thousands of new jobs and billions in new investment, the massive projects also bring with them environmental challenges. [News Source]

Anti-coal movement builds steam in Boulder. Opposition to Valmont power plant's surviving coal-powered boiler, now owned by Xcel Energy, has heated up, stoked by concerns over global warming, toxic air pollutants and Boulder's ability to meet its greenhouse gas-reduction goals. [News Source]

New era may end need for fossil fuel. Newly approved conservation and clean-energy mandates have raised nearly insurmountable barriers to building more fossil-fueled power plants to supply utilities in Delaware or even importing a bigger share of fossil power, putting the state on the brink of a new energy era. [News Source]

Geopolitics of the far north. With melting ice opening up new northern transportation routes and other nations such as Russia, Norway and Denmark staking their claims, rarely have the stakes been so high for Ottawa's Arctic agenda. [News Source]

Yosemite’s big trees withering away. There might be a scientific reason that the old-growth trees in Yosemite National Park don't seem quite as big or as plentiful as those in your grandfather's early snapshots of the park. [News Source]

Shooting season hit by plague of beetles. Climate change, producing mild winters and wetter summers, is making periodic heather beetle outbreaks more likely, experts say. [News Source]

Seabirds could be wiped out, says RSPB. The UK's seabird population could be all but wiped out unless new marine legislation is toughened up, according to the RSPB. 600,000 birds have died in the last decade and some breeds have vanished from our coasts, the charity said. [News Source]

I’m in a dirty old business but I try. Airline chief Richard Branson wants to show that green goals can work, but does he live up to his ideals? [News Source]