Director of the Melnikov Permafrost Institute (the Russian Academy of Sciences' Siberian Branch) Mikhail Zheleznyak told TASS. "In China, perennially frozen ground is in three regions - in the ...

In an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study, an international team examined the social risks for Arctic regions associated with thawing permafrost. They identified five key risks related ...

China has many years of experience in permafrost's scientific research ... Mongolian Center for the Study of Central Asia's cold regions started working at the Melnikov Institute.

The work, by four scientists in China and one at Purdue University in the US, is published in the journal Earth's Future. Permafrost forms ... data in remote regions, changes in vegetation ...