The frozen ground in the Arctic is melting, harming indigenous people’s hunting livings and destabilizing buildings and roads across the rapidly warming region. The temperatures in the ground are trending ever higher across the Arctic, according to the climate experts. As the planet warms up, permafrost, landscapes of frozen soil and rock begin to melt and when it does, microbes consume organic matter, releasing CO 2 and methane into the atmosphere, driving even more carbon emissions. Although much remains to be learned about the impacts of thawing permafrost in the region. However, one thing is becoming increasingly clear, in the coming decades, the arctic landscape will look much different than it does now.
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