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New York Times сообщает, что береговая охрана США собирается организовать базу в Арктике, как бы для защиты экологической чистоты региона. Ну, известно, что за экологию побороться – это самое милое дело:

Coast Guard is planning its first operating base there as a way of dealing with the cruise ships and the tankers that are already beginning to ply Arctic waters.

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But given continued warming, that small base, which could be in place by next spring, would be expanded later to help speed responses to oil spills from tankers that the Coast Guard believes could eventually carry shipments from Scandinavia to Asia through the Bering Strait.

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