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Permafrost research in forefront at the IPY 2012
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Stuttgarter Zeitung - The Nenets, reindeer herders in Siberia, have to find new trails and pastures, as the ground thaws and wets and pipelines break, because they no longer stand on solid ground as the permafrost in the Arctic thaws releasing climate damaging greenhouse gases. "This development has significant implications in many areas," says Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten, the president of the International Permafrost Association and head of periglacial research at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Just a few years ago, the interest in the developments occurring in the permafrost regions was low. The International Polar Year 2007-2008, however, markerd a change as the permafrost research was one of the subject matters in focus. At the "International Polar Year 2012"conference, taking place in Montreal, the auditoriums hosting permafrost presentations were crowded. "We have succeeded in pointing out the importance the permafrost has," says Hubberten. "We had never been on an international conference with such a strong interest in permafrost," says his colleague AWI-Hugues Lantuit. "Spectacular changes"
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