The Arctic's Opening Lanes and the Competition That Follows

As polar ice melts in the Arctic, shipping lanes are opening up, and the region is becoming a new zone of superpower competition, NPR reports. Writer Rana Foroohar, who got a closer look from aboard an icebreaker, lays out the stakes in her book Sea Change. Melting ice is usually framed as a climate story, and it is one — but it is also a story about who gets to use the water that appears in its place.