Close
Contact Us
Help
Login
Register
0
Selected
Invert selection
Deselect all
Deselect all
Click here to refresh results
Click here to refresh results
Go to Login page
Hide details
Add to lightbox
Add to cart
Get link
Keywords
Climate (campaign title)
Climate change
Day
KWCI (GPI)
Outdoors
Permafrost melt
Pipelines
Waste management infrastructure
Water supply structures
Permafrost Subsidence Damage in East Russia
Close up of water and sewage pipelines, raised above the ground because the permafrost is subsiding underneath. These pipes, underneath buildings' concrete foundations, are insulated as in winter the surface temperature can drop below -30 degrees. If the permafrost continues to thaw these pipes and other infrastructures will become unstable, risking to crack and collapse. The whole region is under heavy threat from global warming as temperatures increase and Russia’s ancient permafrost melts.
Unique identifier:
GP01VID
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
16/06/2009
Locations:
Eastern Europe
,
Russia
,
Yakutia
,
Yakutsk
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Will Rose
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
Shoot:
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.
Conceptually similar