| 1 | Not in the center. It is full of lakes, rivers and low vegetation resting on permafrost. | |
| 2 | The methane and carbon dioxide levels will increase as a result of permafrost degradation. | |
| 3 | On the surveyor's right hand stretched a dark frozen plain, endless and boundless. | |
| 4 | "The permafrost, the constantly frozen layer of earth that protected them up until now, is melting," he said. | |
| 5 | "There's quite a bit of truth in it, " Julian Murton, member of the International Permafrost Association, told Reuters. |