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Published online 16 July 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.956
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Science on a melting ice floe
After Russian researchers are evacuated from their Arctic base, one member of the team explains what it was like to spend the winter on ice.
Twenty scientists were this week evacuated from an Arctic ice floe after it began to break up earlier than expected. The floating ice was home to ‘North Pole 35’, a research station where scientists lived and worked through the entire Arctic winter.
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