“For the 5.4 million people who live in Russia’s permafrost zone, the new climate has disrupted their homes and their livelihoods. Rivers are rising and running faster and entire neighbourhoods are falling into them. Arable land for farming has plummeted by more than half, to just 120,000 acres in 2017.
In Yakutia, an area one-third the size of the US, cattle and reindeer herding has plunged 20 per cent, because the animal battle to survive the warming climate’s destruction of pasture land. Siberians who grew up learning to read nature’s subtlest signals are being driven to migrate by a climate they no longer understand.”