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August 23, 2019

Climate change turns Arctic into strategic hotspot

  • As melting ice opens shipping lanes and reveals incredible riches, the region is seen as a new geopolitical and economic asset.
  • By DAVID RISING and SETH BORENSTEIN
    Associated Press

    TASIILAQ, Greenland — From a helicopter, Greenland's brilliant white ice and dark mountains make the desolation seem to go on forever. And the few people who live here — its whole population wouldn't fill a football stadium — are poor, with a high rate of substance abuse and suicide.

    One scientist called it the “end of the planet.”


     
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