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.
US and Russia squabble over Arctic security as melting ice opens up shipping routes
Equally worrying, Russia has increased its naval cooperation with China and given Beijing access, and a stake, in the Arctic.
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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 ...
Daily Wrap on MSN3d
Russia manipulates Arctic tensions to distract from Ukraine
Russia is using the Greenland dispute for propaganda purposes, diverting the West's attention from Ukraine, according to expert Dr. Sergey Sukhankin from the Jamestown Foundation. Just a few months ...
The New Voice of Ukraine on MSN3d
The Alaska rewind: How history fuels Putin’s latest imperial dreams
Putin wants to reclaim Alaska as part of Russia — or at least that’s the implication. The idea of “returning” the northern lands resurfaced in Russia in Jan. 2024, when Putin issued Decree No. 21. The ...
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AP team creates interactive map tracking suspected Russian sabotage across Europe
As allegations of attacks and other incidents blamed on Russia piled up across Europe last year, a team of AP journalists set ...
AI researchers want to map the 3D world. That means going vertical—and possibly nuclear
Spatial intelligence will use AI to bring context to places. But the infrastructure behind it is raising big questions.