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posted on 3:43 PM, August 17, 2019
Climate change is a global phenomenon, but the shifts are especially pronounced in Russia, where permafrost covers some two-thirds of the country at depths ranging up to almost a mile.
“People don’t comprehend the scale of this change, and our government is not even thinking about it,” says Alexander N Fedorov, deputy director of the Melnikov Permafrost Institute, a research body in Yakutsk, the regional capital.
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