image: This is a drilling platform on the ice cover of Lake El´gygytgyn in spring 2009. The container in the front encloses two generators for energy supply. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the June 22, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Melles at University of Cologne in Cologne, Germany, and colleagues was titled, “2.8 Million Years of Arctic Climate Change from Lake El’gygytgyn, NE Russia.” view more
Credit: [Olaf Juschus, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development]