Wars, food shortages and mass immigration: How global warming poses dire threat to Britain’s security Energy Minister Chris Huhne warned today that while the UK may escape the worst physical impacts of rising temperatures and sea levels, the UK will still be exposed elsewhere. [News Source]

Chris Huhne: Climate change threatens UK security Climate change will threaten Britain's national security by causing wars, mass migration and food shortages, Chris Huhne has said. [News Source]

Thousands of gas leaks under Boston and San Francisco. Thousands of unreported leaks are turning up under Boston and San Francisco, according one Boston University scientist. Together with documents from the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, it suggests that some of the gas is leaking into the atmosphere from aging pipelines beneath urban centers. [News Source]

Dispatches from the front(s): Texas’ multifaceted coal war rumbles on. Climate change. Air quality. Water supplies. There are plenty of contentious issues in the struggle over the building of new coal-fired power plants in the state that already uses the most coal. [News Source]

Phoenix dusts off after giant sandstorm whips through. Phoenix residents awoke on Wednesday to a thick layer of dust on their cars, their streets and just about everything else outside after a giant sandstorm more than a mile high roared through the city. [News Source]

Ranchers using Agent Orange to deforest the Amazon. Hundreds of acres of Amazon rainforest were defoliated using Agent Orange, reports IBAMA, Brazil's environmental law enforcement agency. Use of chemical defoliants, while a relatively new phenomenon in the region, represents a troubling development, the lead investigator said. [News Source]

Dispatches from the front(s): Texas’ multifaceted coal war rumbles on. Climate change. Air quality. Water supplies. There are plenty of contentious issues in the struggle over the building of new coal-fired power plants in the state that already uses the most coal. [News Source]

Thousands of gas leaks under Boston and San Francisco. Thousands of unreported leaks are turning up under Boston and San Francisco, according one Boston University scientist. Together with documents from the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, it suggests that some of the gas is leaking into the atmosphere from aging pipelines beneath urban centers. [News Source]

EPA stimulating environmental regulations abroad. China and other foreign interests have been significant beneficiaries of stimulus money through the Environmental Protection Agency, to the tune of some $27 million, since the law passed in February 2009. [News Source]

US and Russia stir up political tensions over Arctic. At the seventh ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council in May, one message was clear: The US is putting itself at the centre of the debate about the future of the far north at a time when a new oil and mineral "cold rush" is under way as global warming makes extraction more easy. [News Source]

Insect attacks among threat to US forests, worsened by drought, climate change. Marauding insects have become a leading threat to the nation’s forests over the past decade, a problem made worse by drought and a warming climate, a federal report says. [News Source]