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NATO faces new threat as climate helps submarines slip beneath sonar

A Turkish navy helicopter, ship and submarine take part in NATO exercises off the coast of Sicily in Febrary 2024. AP - Salvatore Cavalli

When NATO leaders met last week, they repeated familiar warnings about Russia, China and Iran. But one threat did not make the main agenda – climate change. A new study shows rising temperatures could quietly change how submarines are hunted under the sea.

The summit followed a familiar script. Between calls for bigger defence budgets pushed by US President Donald Trump and talks on threats from Russia and Iran, climate change did not make the priority list.

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