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Permafrost is melting across the Northern Hemisphere, altering ecosystems and damaging roads and buildings across Russia. True Or False?

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This is true. It also causes a thing called "Drunken forests". Because the trees roots are shallow, when the permafrost melts, the trees start to tip over.


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The correct answer is - True.

With the ongoing climate changes on global scale, the most evident results of the global warming can be seen in the colder places on the planet. Russia is a country that almost entirely lies in the taiga and tundra, thus it has large areas with permafrost. Because the temperatures are rising as the years go by, the permafrost is melting more and more. That has resulted in lot of damage in the infrastructure, including roads, railroads, bridges, buildings, because of the movement of the soil by the gap left behind from the melted ice. Also, lately there has been an increase of blob like shapes appearing in the taiga and the tundra, which are actually reservoirs of methane that have been trapped bellow the ice. Eventually they blow up, the methane goes in the atmosphere and farther increases the Greenhouse effect, and there's a crater left behind on the place from where it came.

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