Russia may have just unlocked a staggering oil reserve buried deep beneath Antarctica—an untouched region protected by decades-old treaties.

Well, so much for scientific research in Antarctica…it’s about to be a war zone.

  • decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 hours ago

    I mean to be fair they just don’t have the infrastructure to extract it anymore. Economic sanctions since the Obama years have mean that the equipment to extract crude has become hard to maintain.

    A graph showing the steep decline of venezuelan oil production since the US economic sanctions