First Chinese Ship Crosses Arctic Ocean Amid Record Melt

Economic opportunities changes presented by a warming planet are very real.  This message is not lost on the Chinese government which, in its continued attempt to establish a presence in the arctic, had China’s first ice breaker transit the Northeast Passage to Iceland. 

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