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 ...

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.

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 ...

"The less disturbance to the permafrost layer, the more beneficial it is for the stability of the highway's roadbed," he said. Follow China.org.cn on Twitter and Facebook to join the conversation.