"Climate change warming has melted so much Arctic ice that a telecommunication group is moving forward with a project that was unthinkable just a few years ago -- laying underwater fiber-optic cable between Tokyo and London by way of the Northwest Passage.
The proposed system would nearly cut in half the time it takes to send messages from the United Kingdom to Asia, said Walt Ebell, CEO of Kodiak-Kenai Cable Co. The route is the shortest underwater path between Tokyo and London."
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