More environmental bad news: The sailor's legend of the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific may actually melt and become a passable, non-legend passage within 10 years. We're in trouble. There's gotta be a conspiracy theorist out there who's tackled one.
"An ice-free Northwest Passage lets ships traveling between Europe and Asia shave more than 4,000 miles off the route through the Panama Canal, and would allow ships to avoid the occasional delays and the passage fees of the canal."