Sentences with phrase «surrounded by permafrost»
Norway's government said the vault is in an «ideal location for long - term seed storage» since it is «well above» sea level and surrounded by permafrost, which provides natural cooling, according to the project's website.
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The project, led by UAF researcher Katey Walter Anthony, studied lakes in Alaska, Canada, Sweden and Siberia where permafrost thaw surrounding lakes led to lake shoreline expansion during the past 60 years.
(Heat, melt, repeat) Two or 3 feet by 2050 means considerable flooding of the fairly extensive permafrost zones surrounding the Arctic Ocean.
The MacKenzie River region, which supports one of the world's last major wild rivers, has warmed by 3.1 ° F (1.7 ° C) over the past century.2, 3 This warming has endangered the long - term stability of much of the permafrost — the frozen mix of rock, soil, and ice that underlies and surrounds the river basin3, 3 — raising the risk of erosion, flooding, landslides, and other significant changes to the landscape.2, 3,4,5,6