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Climate change deemed growing security threat by military researchers: Climate change-induced drought in the Middle East and Africa is leading to conflicts over food and water, and rising sea levels are putting people and food supplies in vulnerable coastal regions at risk

by Coral Davenport

WASHINGTON — The accelerating rate of climate change poses a severe risk to national security and acts as a catalyst for global political conflict, a report published Tuesday by a leading government-funded military research organization concluded.

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