A drone picture shows private houses on a territory of former airfield, damaged by thermokarst processes in the village of Churapcha in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia September 5, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
CHURAPCHA, Russia (Reuters) - The old airport in the Siberian settlement of Churapcha has been unusable for years, its runway transformed into a swampy field of puffed-up mounds and reliefs.
Like cities and towns across northern and northeastern Russia, Churapcha is suffering the consequence of climate change thawing the permafrost https://graphics.reuters.com/CLIMATE-CHANGE/PERMAFROST/oakveelglvr/index.html on which everything is built.
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