Feasibility Study Underway for Proposed Russia-US Tunnel Under Bering Strait
Kirill Dmitriev, Russia's investment envoy, revealed that a feasibility study for a tunnel connecting Russia and the US under the Bering Strait started six months ago. The tunnel, proposed as a 'Putin-Trump' rail link, would connect Russia's Chukotka region with Alaska, symbolizing unity between the... [More info]
The Distance Between the US and Russia is Less Than You Think 🇺🇸 Diomede Islands📍
Yes, sure, #oil. But also control of #shipping #chokepoints are the strategic assets being contested.
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In the summer of 2022, a research cruise detected a massive harmful algal bloom (HAB) in the Bering Strait region of western Alaska. This expedition provided a dramatic example of science utilizing new technology to track a neurotoxic HAB, and effectively communicate information that protects remote coastal communities in real-time.
“Commercial whaling did not cease because the market recoiled from devouring the future of an entire species […]
Bowheads avoided extinction not because a new space opened in the accounting ledger to tally their worth alive. They survived because, in the world outside the strait, they ceased to have value at all.”
Bathsheba Demuth, Floating Coast, p.68
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Great story of the weekend. Souts save Airmen on isolated island in the Bering Sea - finally get recognition!! #alaska #scout #Yupik #BeringStrait #rescue #heroes @TheGuardian @ShannyGasm
https://www.juneauempire.com/news/alaska-native-scouts-honored-67-years-after-rescuing-navy-crew/
Protecting #BlueCorridors: The #BeringStrait : WWF Arctic
'Potentially #Hazardous' #Asteroid that recently zipped past Earth is an elongated weirdo with an odd rotation : Live Sci
The world’s top 1% of #Emitters produce over 1 000 times more #CO2 than the bottom 1% : IEA
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