1,000-year-old Arctic ponds dry up, global warming blamed

Permanent ponds that have existed for thousands of years in Canada's high Arctic are disappearing because of global warming, Canadian scientists who've studied the ponds for the past 24 years warn in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

Dr. Marianne Douglas (shown in the high Arctic with Greenland in the background), director of the Canadian Circumpolar Institute, says some of the largest ponds she's studied are now drying up before early summer. The full story has been posted on SooToday.com's Green Page.

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