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Coast Guard commissions Coast Guard Cutter John Witherspoon in Kodiak
The Coast Guard commissioned its newest cutter, Coast Guard Cutter John Witherspoon (WPC 1158) for official entry into its ...
Arctic Sea Ice Melt Exposes US to New Threat
This summer will see record low Arctic ice and Russia has stolen a march on militarizing the strategic region.
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Coast Guard Commissions USCGC John Witherspoon in Kodiak, Alaska
KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard commissioned its newest cutter, Coast Guard Cutter John Witherspoon (WPC 1158) for official ...
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The Scramble for the Arctic Is Just Getting Started
Donald Trump’s efforts to claim Greenland for the US is part of a wider push toward militarization of the Arctic. Conflicts ...
War on the Rocks1dOpinion
Greenland’s Military Possibilities for the United States
Over a thousand years ago, the Viking leader Erik the Red discovered a new land after being exiled for murdering his neighbor ...
The Economist1d
The Alaskan island on the front lines of the Arctic scramble
The Inuit on Little Diomede are watched over by Russian soldiers. But that’s not their biggest problem in these icy badlands ...
EPA cuts could leave Washington rural towns choking in smoke
When wildfire smoke drifts into the Methow Valley, it tends to stay, settling in the folds of the Cascade foothills like a ...
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The Search for One of North America’s Rarest Birds
Scientists must journey to remote islands in the middle of the Bering Sea, braving uncertain conditions, to reach the ...
The World from PRX2d
In Antarctic waters once covered by massive sheet of ice, scientists find thriving ecosystem
Back in January, a massive chunk of ice the size of Chicago broke off from an ice sheet on Antarctica’s coast. Exploring the waters this oversized block of ice once covered, scientists found — to ...