Siberian region fights to preserve permafrost as planet warms | Bangkok Post: news
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YAKUTSK, Russia: Eduard Romanov points to a spot on a block of flats where a major supporting beam has sagged and begun to crack, destabilising the nine storeys of apartments above.
Many houses in Yakutsk are made up of concrete panels and stand on stilts which ensure ventilation of the building’s underbelly and prevent it from heating the permafrost, the layer of mineral cemented together with water which is stable as long as it stays frozen. But warmer temperatures are threatening that
In Russia’s Siberian city of Yakutsk, one of the coldest on Earth, climate change is causing dangerous melting of the frozen ground, or permafrost, on which the buildings stand.