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:
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