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The New York Times reports here: The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States 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.

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CNN reports here: U.S. scientists monitoring shrinking glaciers in Washington and Alaska reported this week that a major meltdown is under way. Glacier melt will likely continue and, as it does, sea levels around the world are expected to continue rising.

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BBC News reports here: The use of geo-engineering to slow global warming may increase the risk of drought, according to a paper in Science journal.

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Planet Earth From the makers of The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, with an unprecedented production budget of $25 million, comes the epic story of life on Earth. Five years in production, over 2000 days in the field, using 40 cameramen filming across 200 locations, shot entirely in high definition, this is the [...]

Spiegel Online reports here: It’s green, it benefits the economy and it puts cash in the pockets of average Germans. But the German government’s “scrapping bonus” stimulus for the automobile industry has apparently also provided a windfall for local conmen. Instead of wrecking old cars, they’re selling them abroad.

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CNN reports here: U.S. consumers across the country have been lured into parting with sometimes beloved, gas-hungry vehicles to buy new, more fuel-efficient ones at a discount in the wildly popular “Cash for Clunkers” program. One dealership in California said business doubled in the past week.

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