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Mar 2025
33m 22s

The End of Arctic Exceptionalism

Center For Strategic And International Studies
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Climate change and the reduction in sea ice is opening new shipping routes, and making it easier to tap the arctic’s natural resource wealth, especially critical minerals. For Canada, a country where the arctic represents 40 percent of its territory and 75 percent of its coastline, the changing arctic presents new challenges and opportunities. However, Canad ... Show More
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