Yakutsk, Siberia (12-10-09) -
Climate change is slowly melting Siberia's permafrost.
Permafrost is the ice under Siberia's soil that is supposed to be permanent and never melt. Well, now because the temperature of the Earth is rising, the ice that is never, ever supposed to melt, is melting.
This is forcing local people like Avetik and Ludmila Nasarian to rebuild their houses to deal with the regular flooding. Every year, this couple has to raise the floor in their house so that they are not walking around in a bunch of water. Every year summer comes a little earlier and is a little hotter.
Questions:
1) Where did this story take place?
2) When did this story take place?
3) What is permafrost?
4) What are the couple named?
5) What does the couple have to do in order not to have to walk around in water?
Info from the Guardian
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