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When we think about keeping our country safe, we always consider the worst-case scenarios...We have to think about climate change the same way.

Joyce Anelay, a minister of state in the British government, discusses an international report arguing that governments should treat climate change as seriously as national security threats.

Pretty much all of the resources in Canada are tapped out…They're all on the fire line.

Kerry Anderson, a research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service, discusses the country's unprecedented wildfire season that has so far burned more than 10,000 square miles and brought in firefighters from as far away as New Zealand. Alaska's fire season is off to a blazing start, too.

Wearables could soon help runners avoid air pollution. -

Startup Spec-Sensors is developing tiny sensors that detect pollutants, giving users real-time information about the air around them. The company hopes to begin embedding them in fitness trackers within a year. South China Morning Post

McDonald's "sustainable" Filet-O-Fish isn't so sustainable. -

Native Alaskans have relied on halibut in the Bering Sea for hundreds of years, but trawlers trying to catch pollock for McD's are unintentionally decimating the other fish’s population. If it drops low enough, an international commission could end halibut fishing altogether—a move that would devastate thousands of livelihoods. Slate

These ecosystems do not recover—they just don't.

Jack Kittinger, a director of Conservation International, discusses a proposal from an international group of scientists to protect parts of the ocean floor from deep-sea mining.

President Obama designates three new national monuments. -

Nevada's Basin and Range is the largest of the three, at 704,000 acres. Also now off-limits to developers are California's Berryessa Snow Mountain and Texas's Waco Mammoth. The move nearly doubles the area of public land Obama has protected so far. Washington Post