Climate change opens up Northwest Passage to commercial shipping

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Danish ship traverses formerly ice-choked route from Canada to Finland, cutting 1,000 miles off the usual journey through the Panama Canal

A shipping vessel has completed the first commercial voyage through the Arctic Northwest Passage, a once impenetrable, ice-bound route opened up by global warming. The Nordic Orion, which left Vancouver,...

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