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Florida's climate change plan is the latest in a wave of state strategies to limit greenhouse-gas emissions. Mark Schrope asks whether stand-alone efforts could substitute or drive federal action in the US.
With climate change placing increasing pressure on environmental resources, it is now being viewed as a threat to national security. Amanda Leigh Haag reports.