Russians flee melting ice camp
More bad news for Santa and the elves. A group of Russian scientists are being forced to abandon their camp on the Arctic sea ice after it began breaking up much earlier than expected.
The research camp North Pole 35 was set up last September on a chunk of ice which then measured a sizable 5 kilometres by 3 kilometres (3 miles by 1.8 miles), and the plan was to remain until this September. However, the floating island has now diminished to 600m by 300m (1968 feet by 984 feet), and as it drifts into warmer waters, the researchers are being evacuated by icebreaker before the floe disintegrates altogether.
Canadian researchers are reporting that the annual Arctic summer thaw has begun about 4 weeks earlier than usual this year. Besides that, the Russians, who usually prefer to camp on ice at least 3 metres (10 feet) thick, had to settle for a floe of half that thickness due to last year's unexpected melt-off.
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