Storm Elara Weakens After Landfall, but the Water Remains
The northern coast escaped the winds. The flooding that followed them may prove the more lasting emergency.
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The northern coast escaped the winds. The flooding that followed them may prove the more lasting emergency.
As the northern passage opens for a record fifth consecutive summer, the fortunes of one remote harbour town have become a barometer for the whole shifting geometry of world trade.
A decade after selling its roads to private operators, the metropolis is reversing course — and discovering that undoing a privatisation is far harder than signing one.