“The depth of thawing of permafrost will be uneven. It will actively melt around the edges. There is a permafrost distribution boundary: there is permafrost to the north of this border, and there is none to the south. Everywhere the depth of seasonal thawing will increase. Now, near the permafrost border - Vorkuta, Salekhard, Chita, Ulan-Ude, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, ”RIA Novosti quoted Yekaykin as saying.
The scientist also added that now in the permafrost zone there are Norilsk, Salekhard, Yakutsk, Oymyakon, Tiksi, and by the end of the current century Igarka, Yakutsk, Magadan will be there.
According to the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate, one of the authors of which is Yekaykin, thawing of permafrost by an average of 3-4 meters by the year 2100 is not ruled out.
It is noted that more than 50% of the territory of Russia is located in the cryosphere zone - permafrost, glaciers, snow cover and sea ice.
In July, a researcher at the Main Geophysical Observatory. Voeikova (GGO) Andrei Kiselev said that warming in Russia is 2.5 times faster than in the world. He noted that "the thawing of permafrost - and two-thirds of the territory of Russia stands on permafrost - will lead to soil changes and technological disasters."
In August, the head of the Far East Development Fund (FRDV) Alexei Chekunkov said that a greenhouse complex has been built in Yakutia that allows harvesting in permafrost and temperature extremes.