The Bering Strait, home to more than 10 million nesting seabirds and the only connection between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, is becoming a crucial route for international shipping businesses as a consequence of climate change. Due to the melting of polar sea ice, the area is opening up earlier each year to ship traffic, and also staying navigable for longer. With an increase in shipping pressures in the Strait, the United States Coast Guard realized they needed to plan out a shipping route to navigate through the area in a way that was economically effective, safe for ships, and took the cultural and ecological importance of the area into account. After the Coast Guard proposed the first shipping routes, however, environmentalists quickly realized that showing where ships should go was not enough. They also needed to designate where ships should not go, known as "Areas to Be Avoided." Enter 吃瓜黑料 Alaska, who offered to run the analysis based on the terabytes of data and...