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[Regnum] The 53-hectare Mesyatsev Island, which was part of the Franz Josef Land archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, has disappeared. This was reported by the Russian Geographical Society.
The organization's website notes that the island melted as a result of global warming. As Alexey Kucheiko, associate professor at the Moscow Aviation Institute, who supervised the discovery using satellite images, explained, navigation maps will have to be corrected as a result of this event.
It is specified that in 2015 the island could be seen on maps, but by August 2024 its area had decreased from 53 hectares to three hectares, and a month later it had completely disappeared. As the researchers suggest, another factor in the disappearance of the island was the erosion of the coastline, which was caused by rising sea levels.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier on October 1, the Bloomberg agency, citing the World Weather Attribution (WWA) organization, wrote that the recent powerful flooding in Spain was caused by global warming. It was noted that the experts' analysis showed that precipitation in Spain was approximately 12% stronger, and its probability was twice as high as in the pre-industrial climate.
Leading researcher at the Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, climatologist and biophysicist Alexey Karnaukhov said that due to global warming, the weather in St. Petersburg could change dramatically. According to him, if such events develop, the climate in the Northern capital will be colder than in Greenland.
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