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Keywords
Climate (campaign title)
Climate change impacts
Day
Floods
Global warming
Indoors
KWCI (GPI)
Permafrost melt
Permafrost Melt Damage in East Russia
A building flooded due to melting permafrost. The entire region is under heavy threat from global warming as temperatures increase and Russia’s ancient permafrost melts.
Unique identifier:
GP01VQD
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
16/06/2009
Locations:
Russia
,
Yakutia
,
Yakutsk
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Kajsa Sjolander
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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Permafrost Melt Effects in East Russia
A Greenpeace team travels in East Russia to document the damage caused by the subsiding Russia's ancient permafrost, one of the heavy threats of global warming in the region, as temperatures continue to increase.
In several Russian cities houses and infrastructures are subsiding due to thawing permafrost, in some cases the phenomenon is so severe that the residents have been forced to relocate. In the city of Yakutsk the roads look as if the ground beneath them is bubbling and some railways are impassable.
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