Churapcha, Russia, April 30, 2025 (AFP) - Thawing permafrost dots Siberia with rash of mounds

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2025-04-30

In the vast white expanse around Churapcha in eastern Siberia, the ever more rapid thaw of the permafrost is changing the landscape, cracking up houses and releasing greenhouse gases. A growing number of little mounds are appearing across the region of Yakutia in the Russian Far East. Known as "bylars" in the Yakut language, the tiny hillocks are no more than a metre high and have an almost regular polygonal shape. "The peaks of these formations......

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