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Archive Home > 2012 > October > 23 > Warming waters off Alaska bring new security concerns

Warming waters off Alaska bring new security concerns

By Kim Murphy / The Bulletin
October 23, 2012

BARROW, Alaska — In past years, these remote gray waters of the Alaskan Arctic saw little more than the occasional cargo barge and Eskimo whaling boat. No more.

This summer, when the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bertholf was monitoring shipping traffic along the desolate tundra coast, its radar....

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