Environmental news that flies below the radar

We have enough problems to deal with at home. Why should we care about how global warming affects Russia? Is it possible that what happens there could be indicative of what will happen here? Some scientists think so....

Shrinking lakes of Siberia blamed on global warming

Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow
Friday June 10, 2005
The Guardian

Lakes in two large swaths of Siberia are shrinking in size and 125 of them have disappeared altogether, a US study revealed yesterday.

Scientists have examined satellite photographs of 190,000 square miles of Siberia, two areas stretching south between the Ural mountains and the Arctic mining town of Norilsk. They claim the disappearance of the lakes is a consequence of global warming.

For the rest of the article, see "Shrinking lakes of Siberia blamed on global warming".

For more information on this issue, see:

• "Disappearing Lakes in Siberia" from NASA. (Are they going to get in trouble if the White House discovers this webpage?)
• "The Disappearing Lakes of the Arctic" from UCLA
• "Researchers Blame Global Climate Change" from the State University of New York (SUNY)
• "Siberian Lakes Disappearing" from the Washington Post
• "Siberia's Arctic lakes drying up -- permafrost apparently melting" from the San Francisco Chronicle
• "Arctic Warming Is Drying Up Lakes, Study Finds" from the Los Angeles Times

LP