Permafrost is melting in Yakutia: the ground is covered with round hills

Alien landscapes and collapsing homes as Siberia's permafrost thaws

Source: SBS News

The old airport in the Siberian settlement of Churapcha has been unusable for years, its runway transformed into a swampy field of puffed-up mounds and reliefs. Like cities and towns across northern and north-eastern Russia, Churapcha is suffering the consequence of climate change thawing the permafrost on which everything is built. This is a Russian language content.



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