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The Arctic is now open for business year-round after a large commercial ship sailed the Northern Sea Route from Jiangsu, China, to a Russian gas plant on the Arctic coast, for the first time ever during the month of February, when winter temperatures normally make the icy waterway impassable.
The tanker, owned by Russian maritime shipping company Sovcomflot, was able to make the trip through the Arctic sea ice because it is no longer frozen all winter due to human-induced global warming.
The ability to make this trip 365 days a year opens up vast new possibilities for the shipping industry, which carries 80 percent of the world’s cargo by volume and 70 percent of global trade by value. But it also raises concerns about how the scramble to capitalize on the new route could upend geopolitics.
To get a better understanding of what this new possibility in the Arctic means for the rest of the world, I […]
I can certainly see the changes easily, even in my gardening when the seasons seem to be different than they were when I first started gardening here in Pa.
Your headline is to core of the problem in that “The Arctic is now open for business year-round”. Our dominate economic system is destroying all of us even the greed mongers at the top it’s just that they seem to imagine that with enough money they can survive whatever happens.