Norilsk starts cooling the ground to preserve buildings on thawing permafrost
A 650-million-ruble program aims to stabilize the foundations fo some of the city's buildings.
October 25, 2021
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Rising Arctic temperatures are causing permafrost to thaw, putting the world’s largest city built on frozen ground in deep trouble. Norilsk, the industrial city with 170,000 inhabitants on Russia’s Taymyr Peninsula is partly built on rock and partly on permafrost soil.
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