A spokesman for a Russian scientific institution says global warming is causing Arctic sea ice to melt earlier than it normally does, forcing the evacuation of a research station in the Western Arctic.
Sergei Balyasnikov of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute said Monday that the North Pole-35 station and its 21 researchers will be pulled out this week instead of late August.
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