Polar melting, Arctic mining and mineral resources
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The onset of global warming has been causing ice around both the North and South Pole to melt.
All around the Arctic circle, this polar melting has led to a frenzied scramble for natural resources as nearby countries try to assert their rights to a potential bonanza of Arctic mining for precious mineral resources including crude oil, natural gas and gold. Other economic benefits include new shipping lanes opening up as the ice melts, which in turn also provides access to new fishing areas.
Polar melting and the Arctic mineral resource rush
- Canada publishes first comprehensive atlas, maps geological riches of Arctic mineral resources (2009-05-17)
- Russia mulls potentially oil-rich Arctic seabed (2007-07-27)
- Canada flexes its muscles in scramble for the Arctic (2007-07-27)
- Arctic ice anomaly going off the chart (2007-07-16)
- Arctic sea ice melting at faster rate than projected (2007-06-03)
- Arctic dreams (2007-06-02)
- The Arctic: Oil's last frontier (2006-09-30)
- Scientists shocked as Arctic polar route emerges (2006-09-21)
- Polar bears drown, islands appear in Arctic thaw (2006-09-19)
- Scramble to unlock Arctic's energy potential (2006-01-30)
- Arctic exploration creates new alliances (2005-10-24)
- Arctic meltdown = oil, shipping & fish (2005-10-13)
