Ice retreat turns Arctic into strategic, economic hotspot
The US, Russia and China are lining up to raid an Aladdin's Cave of oil, natural gas and rare earth minerals. Reports from Tasiilaq, Greenland, Berlin, New York and Bejing.
David Rising, Cathy Bussewitz, Joe McDonald and Seth Borenstein
From a helicopter, Greenland's brilliant white ice and dark mountains make the desolation seem to go on forever. And the few people who live here – its whole population wouldn't fill a football stadium – are poor, with a high rate of substance abuse and suicide.
