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Polar melt could cut shipping route to America by a third
25/9/2008 10:28

Cai Wenjun and Yang Lifei/Shanghai Daily news

Chinese scientists are conducting research that might bring some benefit from the global warming that is melting the polar ice, Shanghai Daily reported.

After three expeditions to the Arctic by China's only icebreaker, the Xuelong, scientists are working to see if it would be viable to open a commercial arctic shipping route from China to North America.