Cold War 2.0? Russia, China And The U.S. Clash Over Arctic Resources
Investment in Pituffik has been inconsistent, however, and its importance has waned since the Cold War. Renewed attention to ...
Trump’s Arctic Goals Demand Icebreakers, but U.S. Struggles to Build Them
The president plans to order new icebreakers to help compete with Russia and China, but the first one the U.S. has built in ...
The U.S. built a covert Cold War base under a Greenland glacier. Its secrets are now being revealed.
What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...
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Greenland is Major Front of the Arctic Cold War
Greenland is a main front of the Arctic cold war. It has a US Space base and US air fields. It has about 60 billion barrels of oil. It has hundreds of billions in rare earth minerals. It is a key part ...
The U.S. has tried to buy Greenland before. Here’s how those past attempts went.
From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island.
See How Russia Is Winning the Race to Dominate the Arctic
Things in the Arctic have never been hotter. In the past year, Russian nuclear submarines have practiced firing cruise ...
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Warmth is weakening the polar vortex. Here’s what it means for extreme cold.
The blast of cold that fueled record snowfall across Gulf Coast beaches last week was just the latest to transport frigid air that normally swirls above the North Pole to places much farther south ...
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Bundle up, it’s going to feel like minus 40 once the coldest temperatures in a year arrive
Brutally cold air from Siberia, near the Arctic Circle, will sink south over Canada late this week and rush into the northern US by the earliest hours of Saturday morning. It’ll then expand over ...
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Arctic cold front to cause chilly week in the Piedmont Triad
PIEDMONT TRIAD, N.C. (WGHP) — A massive arctic cold front is moving through North Carolina this evening and all of the eastern United States. Winds will be picking up as the front pushes through and ...
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Why Greenland and the broader Arctic have had the Pentagon’s growing attention for years
Since the 1940s, the Pentagon has valued Greenland, which serves as a gateway to the Arctic. During the Cold War, the military had more than 10,000 troops in its territory, which hosts Pituffik ...