but the landscape and livelihoods in siberia. something rather strange is happening in siberia. in the town of churapcha, these are the scars of climate change. rising temperatures mean that the frozen ground, the permafrost, is thawing, leaving a siberian teletubbyland of mounds and hollows, ponds and lakes. it means less pasture land. and more trouble getting around. climate change has been causing all kinds of problems here. where we are driving now was completely flat. 20 years ago, there was actually an airport here and this was the runway. but because the permafrost has been thawing, the ground has fallen away.
rising temperatures mean that the frozen ground, the permafrost, is thawing, leaving a siberian teletubbyland of mounds and hollows, ponds and lakes. it means less pasture land. and more trouble getting around. climate change has been causing all kinds of problems here. where we are driving now was completely flat. 20 years ago, there was actually an airport here and this was the runway. but because the permafrost has been thawing, the ground has fallen away. the result no more planes here now. siberia has a whole city built
in the second of his reports from the remote reports from the remote yakutia region, our correspondent, steve rosenberg, looks at how the thawing permafrost, is affecting not just the climate, but also the landscape and livelihoods, of those living there. something rather strange is happening in siberia. in the town of churapcha, these are the scars of climate change. rising temperatures mean that the frozen ground, the permafrost, is thawing, leaving a siberian teletubbyland of mounds and hollows, ponds and lakes. it means less pasture land. and more trouble getting around. climate change has been causing all kinds of problems here. where we re driving now was completely flat. 20 years ago, there was actually an airport here and this was the runway. but because the permafrost
in the remote yakutia region, our correspondent steve rosenberg looks at how the thawing permafrost is affecting notjust the climate, but also the landscape and livelihoods of those living there. something rather strange is happening in siberia. in the town of churapcha, these are the scars of climate change. rising temperatures mean that the frozen ground, the permafrost, is thawing, leaving a siberian teletubby land of mounds and hollows, ponds and lakes. it means less pastureland. and more trouble getting around. climate change has been causing all kinds of problems here. where we re driving now was completely flat 20 years ago. there was actually an airport here,
version of the housing project. it was designed as worker s lodging. a place to put black laborers comfortably removed from white society. a ghetto. by the 1950s, it had become the center of resistance to white rule, synonymous with the struggle against the whole rotten racist system. mdu: i remember when the situation was so bad in such a way that my mother had to put me inside a box where we put shoes and hide me there, under the bed. this is where i grew up most of the time. sometimes you would get bullied. there was this time two guys were following me. they lifted me up and i had probably some few coins in my pocket. and just turned me around. just to shake me. anthony: shake you upside down? mdu: shake me upside down. i will never forget that moment in my life. i felt stupid, you know?