arctic

Example Sentences

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One of the Arctic’s great tourist attractions is, for military planners, one of its great irritants: the northern lights.

From The Wall Street Journal

Capital-intensive foreign investments in the Russian Arctic or elsewhere would involve heavy initial costs and bring returns only years later, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

The dispute comes as strategic competition in the Arctic grows, with melting ice opening new shipping routes and increasing access to valuable mineral resources.

From BBC

The Arctic has gained geostrategic importance as the race for rare earths heats up and as melting ice caused by global warming opens up new shipping routes.

From Barron's

Leaders of both Denmark and Greenland have repeatedly insisted that the huge Arctic island is not for sale and that it will decide its future itself.

From Barron's