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  • Climate change turns Arctic into strategic, economic hotspot

    DAVID RISING and SETH BORENSTEIN|Aug 23, 2019

    TASIILAQ, Greenland (AP) — From a helicopter, Greenland's brilliant white ice and dark mountains make the desolation seem to go on forever. And the few people who live here — its whole population wouldn't fill a football stadium — are poor, with a high rate of substance abuse and suicide. One scientist called it the "end of the planet." When U.S. President Donald Trump floated the idea of buying Greenland, it was met with derision, seen as an awkward and inappropriate approach of an erstwhile ally. But it might also be an Aladdin's Cave of oil,...