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News Release 12-115
Remote Siberian Lake Holds Clues to Arctic--and Antarctic--Climate Change
Fates of polar ice sheets appear to be linked
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![Photo of snow and ice covering a building at Lake E in the Russian Arctic.](/news/mmg/media/images/siberian_lake1_f.jpg)
Keys to climate change lie buried beneath "Lake E" in the Russian Arctic.
Credit: Pavel Minyuk
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![Satellite image looking down at the north pole showing a red star at the location of Lake E.](/news/mmg/media/images/siberian_lake2_f.jpg)
Location of Lake E 100 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle in northeastern Russia.
Credit: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
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![Photo of lead scientists Martin Melles, Julie Brigham-Grette and Pavel Minyuk at Lake E.](/news/mmg/media/images/siberian_lake3_f.jpg)
Lead scientists Martin Melles, Julie Brigham-Grette and Pavel Minyuk at Lake E.
Credit: Lake E Project
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![the camp and a road in the upper left on ice-covered Lake E.](/news/mmg/media/images/siberian_lake4_f.jpg)
Road in upper left links camp with drilling platform 7 kilometers away on ice-covered Lake E.
Credit: Anders Noren
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![a drilling platform and a container holding generators on the ice cover of Lake E.](/news/mmg/media/images/siberian_lake5_f.jpg)
Drilling platform resting on the ice cover of Lake E; the container in front holds generators.
Credit: Olaf Juschus
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![Photo of a wallboard with hanging tools with descriptions in Russian and English at Lake E site.](/news/mmg/media/images/siberian_lake6_f.jpg)
On the inside: scientists work in at least two languages at the Lake E site.
Credit: Julie Brigham-Grette
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![Cover of the June 22, 2012 issue of the journal Science.](/news/mmg/media/images/science_062212_f.jpg)
The researchers' work is described in the June 22, 2012 issue of the journal Science.
Credit: Copyright AAAS 2012
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