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As Arctic ice melts, full steam ahead for shipping
2013-03-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: There will certainly be more negative than positive effects from climate change. But shipping routes across the Arctic Ocean -- which have been ice-covered and impassable since humans invented ships millenniums ago -- could be open for the first time by midcentury because of climate change, a study suggests. This includes shipping directly across the North Pole and through the famed Northwest Passage, a sea route from Newfoundland toward the Bering Strait, neither of which has ever been done....
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