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Photo: Thai soldiers in biohazard suits take part in a cleanup operation at Ao Prao Beach on Koh Samet, Thailand, on Tuesday after crude oil that leaked from a pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand over the weekend reached the tourist resort.

Bilingual: Rapid thawing of the Arctic could trigger an "economic time bomb" that would cost trillions of dollars and undermine the global financial system, the Guardian quoted a group of economists and polar scientists as saying.