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With Arctic permafrost thawing, Pentagon frets over deadly pathogens

With Arctic permafrost thawing, Pentagon frets over deadly pathogens

In one troubling case, dozens of people were sickened − and thousands of reindeer were killed − when anthrax spores emerged from the thawing permafrost in an Arctic region of Siberia.

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Fossil fuels are a clear and present danger to national security

Relying on carbon energy is a direct threat to American national security, no matter how one might characterize it.

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Climate change threatens Canadian security, prosperity, warns stark spy agency brief

Canada's spy service warns that climate change poses a profound, ongoing threat to national security and prosperity, including the possible loss of parts of British Columbia and the Atlantic provinces to rising sea levels.
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Meet the climate scientist helping guide Biden on spy agencies

Meet the climate scientist helping guide Biden on spy agencies

Kim Cobb, the first climate scientist to join a top intelligence advisory board, answers questions about her hopes to infuse climate into Biden’s security discussions
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Meet the Pentagon's climate team

Once perceived as a sleeping bear on climate issues, the Defense Department has fully awakened to the realities of global warming as a threat to national security.

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Republican Congress is coming for Biden's climate wins

A Republican Congress is coming for Biden's climate wins

If the looming GOP majority sabotages climate policy, its own voters will suffer. The party might do it anyway.
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Why the Pentagon is the world's biggest single greenhouse gas emitter

Why the Pentagon is the world's biggest single greenhouse gas emitter

A new book explains how the US military came to consume more fossil fuels than most countries—and what we can do about it.
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