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| Source: brosha |
According to data obtained from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ERS-2 satellite, a research team consisting of German and Dutch scientists has discovered that the water level in the Arctic Ocean is decreasing rapidly, averaging about 2 cm per year.
This finding has stunned the global scientific community, and no concrete evidence has yet been found to explain this unusual phenomenon.
Melting ice at the poles due to global warming is causing sea levels in the world’s oceans to rise and poses a risk of submerging small islands; however, in the Arctic Ocean, sea levels are instead decreasing.
Scientists around the world plan to establish research expeditions to explore the Arctic Ocean in 2007, designated as the International Polar Year, to seek answers to this phenomenon.
