World powers increasingly see icy Arctic as one hot property

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World powers increasingly see icy Arctic as one hot property

Fri, 08/23/2019 - 14:05
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TASIILAQ, Greenland (AP) — 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.” When U.S. President Donald Trump floated the idea of…

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