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...English merchant Robert Thorne first proposed the idea in 1527: sail from Western Europe across the top of the continent to the Far East. This northern passage would be far quicker than the one then used, around the southern tip of Africa. But few sailors dared risk the Arctic Ocean's freezing temperatures, ice-clogged seas and blinding fog. Now, though, Thorne's idea is being taken more seriously, owing to global warming. The sea ice along the northern coast of Siberia is retreating, and last year a team of international scientists reported that ice-free routes have emerged during...
Current route: 11,430 nautical mi. Arctic route: 6,920 nautical...
...month in Quebec City for the third Summit of the Americas. Topping the agenda: how to move forward with the Free Trade Area of the Americas, an ambitious effort launched in 1994 to create a single market, free of trade barriers, from the southern tip of Chile to the Arctic Circle, with a population of 800 million and a total annual income of $11 trillion...
...Even if temperatures rise only moderately, some scientists fear, the climate would reach a "tipping point"?a point at which even a tiny additional increase would throw the system into violent change. If peat bogs and Arctic permafrost warm enough to start releasing the methane stored within them, for example, that potent greenhouse gas would suddenly accelerate the heat-trapping process...
...Clinton administration's early errors of symbolism and priority. As Clinton stupidly allowed gays in the military to become an opening issue of his administration, so Bush has given early prominence to carbon dioxide emissions, arsenic in the water, rejection of the Kyoto treaty, and oil drilling in Arctic Alaska. Dumb...