Russian Scientists Journey To Study Glacier At 67 Degrees North, Find A Lake Instead
The glacier used to be the second biggest in the whole Ural region. It was 2,2 km long and covered a mountain creek near the border between the Komi Republic and the Yamal-Nenets region.
It was discovered by researchers from the Moscow State University in 1953 and was for decades object of study by Soviet glaciologists. Until the 1980s, a meteorological station was operated on site, regional Yamal-Nenets authorities inform. That is all history. When a group of researchers arrived on site mid-August, the MGU glacier was no longer there.
“When we were at the glacier last time in 2010, there was still a big volume of ice on the bottom, but it was detached from its accumulating zone and the glacier lake was activity eroding it,” researcher Mikhail Ivanov from the Moscow State University says. “This year, it turned out, it had completely melted,” he explains.
Also the other glaciers in the area have lost significant parts of their ice, the researchers say.
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https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2020/09/researchers-came-study-russian-arctic-glacier-found-only-big-lake
