Climate: Global Warning from the Medill School of Journalism Takes on Climate Change and National Security - Ecocentric - TIME.com

Coincidences abound—just after posting an item on Representative Gabrielle Giffords's focus on climate change and renewable energy as a national security issues, I run across a new multimedia project from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism that explores: climate change and national security. Called "Global Warning," the website is the product of three months of investigations by student reporters at one of the best journalism schools in the U.S., with stories exploring the climate risks to energy infrastructure, the spread of disease in a warmer world, military clashes in a melting Arctic. Some of the pieces will also appear in the Washington Post and in McClatchy newspaper, but all of them will be found online on a website that includes sophisticated graphics, climate change timelines and even a global warming strategy game. As Josh Meyer, the director for education and outreach of the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative, said in a statement:

Reporting from the Arctic Circle, Bangladesh, Peru, Washington D.C. and elsewhere, the Medill students deliver a well-reported and well-told examination of an issue that, while largely neglected by the government and the media, is fast becoming one of the most serious national security concerns.