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Geostrategically located, with profitable natural resources, the Arctic is rapidly becoming a militarized zone of power politics in the new cold war, contested by the US and Europe, Russia and China.
Protesters confront COP26, Elections in Nicaragua and Venezuela, Pink tide in... Greenland
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The Inuit Ataqatigiit party won 37% of the vote, with 29% for the ruling social-democratic Siumut party, according to official results reported by Reuters. At the center of Tuesday's election was the fate of a rare-earth and uranium mining project.
A new study shows that two glaciers in Greenland are showing worrying changes, and that one has been retreating at an accelerating rate in recent years as it faces a dual attack by warm air from above and warm water from below. The glacier Zachariae has shrunk by 95 percent since 2002. The mass of miles-thick ice that covers most of Greenland could raise global sea levels by some 20 feet if it all melted.
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