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Global Warming Melts Away Russian Research Station
by Stacy Feldman - Jul 15th, 2008
Wow. From the AP:
Russian scientists are evacuating a research station built on an Arctic ice floe because global warming has melted the ice to a fraction of its original size, a spokesman said.
The 21-person polar research crew has lived on The North Pole-35 station since September 2007. Their expected departure date was late August 2008.
But.
The evacuation of the drifting station has been pushed up to this week, said Sergei Balyasnikov of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in St. Petersburg...
because of global warming.
Here's the stunning melt, by the numbers:
In early September, the research team's chosen Arctic ice floe measured 1.2- by 2.5-miles, or 6,336 by 13,200 feet. During its westward drift of more than 1,550 miles, the floe shriveled to just 1,000 by 2,000 feet.
That's an ice loss of about 85 percent, in less than one year.
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