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Melting Ice Reshapes the Geopolitical Importance of Svalbard and Greenland

Norway is limiting foreign influence on the archipelago as melting ice opens strategic sea lanes and resources, with Svalbard losing more than 60 gigatons of ice in 2024.

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A potentially explosive political tussle is playing out on the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. And some fear the world isn’t paying enough attention.

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For more than two decades, a pair of imposing granite lions stood on either side of the entrance to the reddish-brown building, deep inside the Arctic Circle. Now that is no longer the case. Last month, the lions were removed, and their absence speaks to the increasingly tense geopolitical situation in the far north of the world.

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For more than two decades, a pair of imposing granite lions flanked the entrance of a rust-red building in the Arctic.

While ice melts at an accelerated pace, Svalbard consolidates itself as one of the main focuses of the geopolitical dispute between Norway, Russia, China and the United States

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For more than two decades, two imposing lei of flank granite the main entrance into a building with rust walls, raised beyond the Arctic Circle, in the town of Ny-Alesund on Svalbard, an archipelago located between the continental part of Norv

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