image: All cargo for the drilling operation on Lake El´gygytgyn in winter 2008/09 had to be transported to the lake from the nearest settlement, Pevek, located 360 km to the north across the frozen tundra with trucks supported by bulldozers. Pevek is located at the coast of the East Siberian Sea. 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: [Pavel Minyuk, NEISRI Magadan]