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he prize for these countries is the mineral wealth of the Arctic, which global warming may make more accessible.

an eighth of the world’s untapped oil

perhaps a quarter of its gas.

Drilling for oil and gas there is extremely expensive, and falling oil prices have made the economics of Arctic energy even less favourable. This gives would-be prospectors an interest in co-operating, not in adding to the risks and costs.

The melting of the summer sea ice has also opened up trade routes between Asia and Europe via the top of the world; 71 cargo ships plied the north-east passage last summer, up from 46 in 2012

Russia

carried out extensive combat exercises in the Arctic for the first time since the end of the cold war

re-equipping old Soviet bases there and in July tested the first of its new-generation rockets,

Sweden spent part of the summer searching for a Russian submarine that it suspected of slipping into its territorial waters.

countries may control an area of seabed if they can show it is an extension of their continental shelf.

allows immigration agents to pursue deportations regardless of priority and without consideration of an individual’s ties to the United States.

not grant deferred action or work permits to undocumented immigrants because their exclusion from the Affordable Care Act could encourage employers to hire undocumented immigrants rather than Americans or others who are entitled to health insurance.

Puerto Adolfo López Mateos is a town on the Pacific Coast similar to Kino. But the López Mateos fisherman didn’t toss this fish from the net to the beach and then to a truck. It was caught by hook and line, placed in ice water, and processed by the fisherman’s wife in an air-conditioned plant. The fisherman earns many times as much money as Kino fishermen, doesn’t have bycatch, and the fish makes for an amazing meal. Peckham says that when he first showed the fish to this restaurant, they refused to believe it was cabrilla. He’s become a cheerleader for something he calls “value rescue”; that is, if the fishermen can cut out some of the middlemen, care for and market their fish better, and make more money per fish, they can be better stewards of their coastline.

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