Risks are burial sites with infected animals and ancient bacteria in permafrost.
Global warming on Earth is a threat to mankind due to the thawing of permafrost. This process is dangerous not only from the point of view of possible destruction of buildings and structures, are constructed in such climatic conditions, but also from the point of view of sanitary-epidemiological security.
"the Problem of the risk of thawing of the burial grounds with anthrax was also to climate warming. Channel processes in the rivers sometimes opened these mounds. And with the warming of climate, this risk increases much more. Many bacteria are released with degradation of permafrost. Professor at Moscow University Anatoly Brushko many years, publishes in Russian and Yakut press about ancient bacteria from the Yakutian permafrost.
What problems there may be with the infrastructure, the well-studied American professors, our compatriots by Mykola Shiklomanov and Daniel Strilets, their results published in scientific journals. The loss of bearing capacity of piles in the Northern cities is the subject of their research. Although Russia is the most permafrost-affected country in the world and our problems with permafrost due to warming is obvious, our economists still did not believe in warming", — quotes RIA Novosti words of the Deputy Director for science of the permafrost Institute. P. I. Melnikov, SB RAS, leading researcher of the international scientific-educational center of biogeochemistry and climatology BEST Institute of natural Sciences NEFU Alexander Fedorov.
We will remind, in June in Verkhoyansk, which is known as one of the Poles of cold, the air warmed up to +38 degrees Celsius, which was abnormal heat and absolute temperature record for the entire history of meteorological observations in the Arctic.
