List of Arctic and Antarctic articles
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NASA avionics technician Lauren Prinski looks out the window of a research aircraft before takeoff from Thule Air Base in Greenland on March 30, 2017. Here’s How Trump Should Have Approached Greenland
The United States can build on its strategic toehold without buying the entire country.
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Soldiers board an amphibious warfare ship on the Barents Sea shore in western Arctic Russia on April 17. Russia’s Military Exercises in the Arctic Have More Bark Than Bite
For now, cooperation still reigns.
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1st Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment, deployed on Operation Nanook-Nunalivut Vanguards of the Thawing Arctic
After two decades of war in the desert, Canadian troops must relearn how to operate in the frozen north.
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A Ukrainian soldier stands guard Russia’s Next Land Grab Won’t Be in an Ex-Soviet State. It Will Be in Europe.
First he came for Georgia, then for Ukraine. Vladimir Putin’s next target is likely to be a non-NATO nation in the EU.
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U.S. Marines land in Stordal, Norway, on Jan. 16, 2017. (Ned Alley/AFP/Getty Images) A New Cold Front in Russia’s Information War
As NATO’s footprint grows in Norway, Moscow may be using an espionage case to inflame the country’s internal divisions.
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A cruise ship near the harbor of Ilulissat off the west coast of Greenland, north of the Arctic Circle, in August 2012. (Education Images/UIG via Getty Images) Stretched Thin on Thin Ice
With the Arctic melting and northern coast guards struggling to keep up, the next disaster is a matter of when, not if.
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A helicopter takes off from a U.S. Coast Guard cutter one week after the passage of Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 27, 2017. (Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images) The Head of the U.S. Coast Guard Isn’t Afraid to Talk About Climate Change
It may not be a White House priority. But rising sea levels are critical to the service’s operations.
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An icebreaker at the Russian port of Sabetta in the Arctic circle on April 16, 2015. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images) China’s Ready to Cash In on a Melting Arctic
Beijing has big plans for its own Polar Silk Road.
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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg answers journalists' questions as he arrives to attend the 54th Munich Security Conference on Feb. 16. (Andreas Gebert/AFP/Getty Images) If America Is First, Is NATO Second?
An interview with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.
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iceberg crop This Country Wants to Tow Icebergs From Antarctica to the Middle East
As early as 2018.
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crop U.S. Coast Guard Chief Warns of Russian ‘Checkmate’ in Arctic
As the warming region opens to new commercial and geopolitical interests.
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trump crop Oil Companies Cool on Arctic Drilling. Trump Wants It Anyway.
It’s hard to lure Big Oil to the Big Freeze when crude is at $50 a barrel.
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boaty Boaty McBoatface Makes Inaugural Voyage to Antarctica
The little remote-controlled underwater research submarine that could.
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russia-build-up-crop Here’s What Russia’s Military Build-Up in the Arctic Looks Like
While lawmakers and outgoing U.S. officials urge Trump not to let the ‘orphaned’ Arctic slip through the cracks.
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1024px-grosser_panda Lessons for the South China Sea From International Experience in the Arctic
The recent row between the Chinese and the U.S. navies over an unmanned underwater vehicle is a glimpse of an evolving problem, which the new administration in the White House must address.
