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The Arctic is coming under the spotlight for reasons other than global warming (Photo: Gus MacLeod)

Why the world’s last true frontier is heating up fast

The Arctic is coming increasingly under the spotlight for reasons other than global warming.

The region, home to some of the world’s largest undiscovered hydrocarbon reserves, is becoming a new frontier for a geopolitical struggle between Russia and the West.

On 24 August, Russia kicked off a series of large-scale military exercises in the Arctic. A week earlier, Moscow informed the United Nations that it had laid claim to a staggering 1.2 million square kilometres of the Arctic ...

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The Arctic is coming under the spotlight for reasons other than global warming (Photo: Gus MacLeod)

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