As the world warms, permafrost is thawing across two-thirds of Russia, threatening cities and towns built to house miners sent to tap into an underground trove of oil, gas, gold and diamonds.
The land is vomiting up the past and swallowing the present; it is creating a gaping maw even more startling than the vast open-pit mines already scarring the Siberian landscape.
Many of the consequences of climate change fall hardest on developing countries, which historically have contributed little to global emissions. But permafrost thaw is disfiguring the land in many of the countries most responsible for the crisis.
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