Russia may lose 30% of permafrost by 2050 - Yahoo!: "Russia's vast permafrost areas may shrink by a third by the middle of the century due to global warming, endangering infrastructure in the Arctic zone, an emergencies ministry official said Friday.
'In the next 25 to 30 years, the area of permafrost in Russia may shrink by 10-18 percent,' the head of the ministry's disaster monitoring department Andrei Bolov told the RIA Novosti news agency."
