Race for Arctic resources in a climate change era

In November, a student-led project made a disturbing discovery: Mesyatsev Island, a floating slab of ice previously observed in the Arctic, had almost disappeared. It took around a decade and a half for the 11.8-million-square-foot island to shrink by 99.7% and vanish from the Arctic’s map. Indeed, the Arctic is changing fast, impacting ecosystems and […]
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