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The new map design follows a series of historical and ongoing arguments about ownership, and the race for resources, in the frozen lands and seas of the Arctic. Advanced Search Home ...
A U.S. Geological Survey assessment released in July estimated the Arctic Circle has 90 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil, as well as 30 percent of the world’s ...
More than 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle, ... rights over the valuable natural resources hidden under the Arctic sea ... a three-week mission to map regions of the vast ...
Canada’s claim to the resource-rich Arctic has been brought into high relief by a team of British researchers that yesterday released the first detailed map illustrating possible future boundaries.
In Part I of FP Analytics’ Arctic Competition Power Map, we visualize how climate change is physically transforming the Arctic, lay out the scale of potential resources that will be made ...
As this new map at Foreign Policy shows, Russia is prepared to back up those claims. By 2015, it had established six new bases north of the Circle, including 16 deepwater ports and 13 airfields.
More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military bases along its northern border.
The new map design follows a series of historical and ongoing arguments about ownership, and the race for resources, in the frozen lands and seas of the Arctic.