Each year Russia loses more than 450km2 of territory because of climate change

Russia's territory is annually narrowed to the size of Andorra, a small European country with an area of ​​468km ² due to melting ice and erosion of the northern coast.

Change in post-tensioning reduces the area of ​​Russia

This is an accelerated natural process due to climate change and cannot be prevented.

This information was released by the Director of the Ice Institute of the Earth Division of the Siberian Institute, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Dmitry Drozdov on November 9.

Illustration.(Source: pubs.usgs.gov).

Mr. Drozdov explained the melting process and this erosion took place when the waves hit the permafrost permanently melting heat and melting ice. In the south, the coast also erodes but there is sand blocking this erosion process, while in the north there is 80% ice so the thawing process takes place faster.

Freezing soil begins to dissolve when the heat builds up on the soil surface large enough. Climate change in recent decades has accelerated this process.

This melting process will take place along with the Earth's warming speed and lead to reallocation of territorial types of human activity.

For example, when the temperature rises by 1-2 degrees Celsius, warm fertile lands in Russia's Siberia such as Stavropol and Krasnoyarsk will become water scarcity, causing farming to shift to other territories.

Another consequence of thawing due to climate change is the contamination of groundwater, including the appearance of harmful bacteria that the eradication is quite complicated.

However, according to Dr. Dmitry Drozdov, the most severe consequences of global warming are that coastal erosion is becoming faster and more polluting the water and eventually degrading the ecosystem.