Warm Arctic could heat up new Cold War

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Rising value of land, water leads to boundary disputes

By TOM HENRY
BLADE STAFF WRITER

BOWLING GREEN - The gradual warming of the Earth's climate has the potential to bring back Cold War-like tensions between the United States and Russia, as the two countries assert themselves over parts of the Arctic Circle that once were impassable for ships.

Melting ice also will likely cool relations between the United States and Canada, long viewed as the world's friendliest neighbors.

Those and other predictions emerged yesterday during the 21st annual Reddin Symposium at Bowling Green State University, an event sponsored by BGSU's Canadian Studies Center and attended by about 125 people.

"We are on the cusp of a series of disagreements," Rob Huebert, one of the symposium's three speakers, told the audience. "We are heading into some very rocky territory."...