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A shipping boom in the Arctic is literally 

. As ice melts, new routes are opening up, but they haven’t been mapped yet.

It’s putting passengers and the environment at risk. Between 2000 and 2018, 74 vessels have run aground in the Canadian Arctic. 

"We ran into a shoal very violently, and the ship was lifting,” he said. “We didn’t really know what was going on at the time. We knew that the ship was spilling some fuel and that the ship must have been damaged.”

The passengers were rescued without incident, but it took more than 24 hours for help to arrive.

Struzik joined Climate Cast to talk about the experience and this lesser-discussed consequence of climate change.

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As the arctic melts, ships are more likely to get lost or stuck in areas that haven’t yet been mapped. 

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