"While the Climaterati caucus over cappuccinos in Copenhagen about polar bear habitat and the fate of small island nations from rising sea levels, there are other possible climate change implications, too - those of the security kind.
In fact, we’re already seeing them in the Arctic.
By many accounts, much of the Arctic sea ice is melting following a three-decade trend. But while the geographic North Pole belongs to no one, the area around it may hold as much as 20 percent of the world’s undiscovered, technically-recoverable natural resources.
That’s good news, but who owns it?"
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