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2010 will be remembered as the year the Arctic Ocean became a trade route [Environment]

02 Sep

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In the 1980s, the Soviet Union built nuclear-powered ice-breakers, hoping to open a shipping route through the Arctic. They needn't have bothered â€” there's no ice left now in the summer, opening the fabled Northeast Passage to shipping. MoreÂ Â»

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