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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.

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.

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

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

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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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

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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