Tag: tundra
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When glaciers relent, Wrangel Island becomes a diplomatic crucible
Long before most people ever saw it, sailors argued over whether it was there at all. In the high Arctic between the East Siberian and Chukchi seas, north of Chukotka and well above the Siberian mainland, Wrangel Island spent decades as a rumor on the horizon: a dark line glimpsed through weather, then lost again…