The melting river of ice is known as "the weak underbelly" of West Antarctica. The Pine Island glacier is flowing towards the ocean 12 per cent faster than at the start of 2017.
The Russians have questions about what America’s subs are doing, too.
Sometime
apparently in August 2013, the U.S. Navy’s nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Seawolf eased out of the port of Bremerton, in Washington State, on what was probably her fifth or sixth deployment since commissioning in 1997.
A month later the U.S. Sixth Fleet, in charge of ships in European waters, posted a series of photos to the Website Flickr
depicting the U.S. ambassador to Norway, Barry White, touring the 350-foot-long Seawolf pierside at Haakonsvern naval base … in southern Norway. Thousands of miles from Washington State.
How Seawolf got to Norway and what she might have done en route offer a rare and tantalizing glimpse into some of the most secretive quarters of the most poorly understood aspects of American naval power.
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