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China has just launched a 40-megawatt, floating solar farm in the city of Huainan, China, making it officialy the world's largest offshore solar plant.
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It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached after global warming produced extraordinary temperatures over the winter, sending meltwater gushing into the entrance tunnel.
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The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard issued a stark warning on Wednesday that Russia was leagues ahead of Washington in the Arctic. And while the warming Arctic opens up, the United States could be caught flat-footed while other geopolitical rivals swiftly step in.
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The Trump Administration's reliance on China for assistance with containing North Korea has led to a dramatic reduction in FONOPs in the disputed South China Seas to contest China's claims and ensure freedom of navigation.
[ More ]A new report from Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme suggests that the Arctic may be ice-free in summer within twenty years. The 90 authors of the rigorously peer-reviewed AMAP report state, “Extrapolations of recent observed data suggest a largely ice-free summer ocean by the late 2030s, which is earlier than projected by most climate models.”
[ More ]An increase in aggressive maritime behavior from the Russian Navy calls for a renewed committment to open communications and adherence to the maritime rule of law to avoid incidents escalating.
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The U.S. is closely watching the Russian buildup in the Arctic, the biggest since the fall of the USSR with Russia bolstering its fleet of nuclear-fueled icebreakers, reopening abandoned Soviet military bases and building a string of new ones.
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