Grist: Most people think the thinning of the sea ice at the top of the world is a bad thing. But not shipping and fossil fuel interests.
Shipping companies this week announced that they would use icebreakers to carve a new Arctic shipping route to help them deliver natural gas from a processing plant in western Siberia to customers in Japan and China. The Wall Street Journal reports:
Once virtually impassable, the Arctic Ocean is now attracting interest as a shipping route because global warming has...