Cold, Hard Facts: U.S. Trails in Race for the Top of the World

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From Politics Daily - James Grady and Bonnie Goldstein's PD Investigations:

Cold, Hard Facts: U.S. Trails in Race for the Top of the World
Bob Reiss
Contributor

Most Americans give little thought to our far north. We think of the Arctic as a single region, a cold place divorced from our everyday lives, a setting for documentaries from which we learn that polar bears are in danger as their icy habitat shrinks. But the U.S. also faces huge, new geopolitical consequences from the melt. A whole new area of Earth is suddenly open for international conflict, environmental destruction, and an economic bonanza.

On March 1, Alaska's senators sat down at the Council for Foreign Relations with other experts on the region to figure out how to get the rest of America to stop ignoring what the Council's Fellow on Ocean Governance considers "one of the biggest stories of the 21st century." Read article on Politics Daily