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In Antarctica, photos show a remote area teeming with life amid growing risks from climate change
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In Antarctica, photos show a remote area teeming with life amid growing risks from climate change

  • By MARK BAKER - Associated Press
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Antarctica, one of the most remote places on Earth, teems with life. For tourists who make it this far south, the experience gives them a chance to see what is at stake as the planet warms from climate change, caused mostly by the burning of gas, oil and coal. Gentoo and Adelie penguins waddle around and jump in and out of icy waters. An elephant seal lies on the beach and opens its mouth wide. A pod of orcas swim in the Drake Passage. The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the fastest warming places in the world. It is also a major repository for carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.

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Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal

  • By WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press
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President-elect Donald Trump says he won't rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security. Speaking to reporters less than two weeks before he takes office on Jan. 20 and as a delegation of aides and advisers that includes his son Donald Trump Jr. is in Greenland, Trump left open the use of the American military to secure both territories. Trump has floated having Canada join the United States. The Republican said Tuesday he would not use military force to do that, saying, he would rely on “economic force.”