VLADIVOSTOK, August 20 (RIA Novosti's Anatoly Ilyukhov) - On August 20, the second Russian-American expedition to the Artic will depart from Vladivostok (a Russian Pacific port) on the Ivan Kireyev hydrographic ship, said Igor Semiletov, head of the polar regions geochemistry laboratory at the Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Far Eastern branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to him, the scientists will study the processes that influence the formation of the climate. They will work in the East Siberian Sea, the Laptev Sea, on the Siberian sea shelf and in the Lena delta.
He noted that it was the least explored ocean shelf in the world and that only Russian scientists had worked there for the past 20 years.
However, ice in the region may impede their work.
He said the results of the previous expeditions caused a sensation in the scientific world as Russian scientists proved that the greenhouse effect was natural and not caused by man.
