The gradual yet relentless melting of ice in the region as a result of climate change is opening up Arctic shipping routes ...

Danita Delimont / Getty Images ... of rare minerals in the region's ore is relatively low—between 1% and 6%—making extraction more costly and technically challenging. The harsh Arctic climate ...

Melting sea ice is generating an emerging Arctic economy. Nations bordering the Arctic are drilling for oil and gas, and mining, shipping ... from the energy and mineral resources is in the ...

The melting ice is making Arctic trade routes ... shipping than current lanes using the Suez and Panama canals. Furthermore, increased navigability is expanding potential for exploration and ...

Having declared itself a “Near Arctic Power,” China has placed considerable investments in scientific research, as well as mineral and oil and gas extraction. Equally important is the prospect ...

The 2009 Act on Greenland Self-Government gave Greenlanders authority over a number of new sectors including mineral ... and Arctic Canada have become increasingly connected by shipping routes ...

Past colonial atrocities and catastrophes have not deterred today’s global powers from vying for control of the Arctic.

Twenty-five of the 34 minerals ... s Arctic white paper published in 2018. The document described an envisioned “Polar Silk Road” through developing the Arctic shipping routes, while also ...