As the 'greenhouse' gases get trapped in the atmosphere and the earth heats up, the tundra in the Arctic is starting to melt. Icy temperatures have created permafrost that has locked peat and other organic materials into a rigid state for centuries. Now with the heating up of the earth particularly accelerated at the poles, the environment is changing. Methane long contained in the organic material is now being released into the atmosphere at an accelerated pace. That particular gas is much more harmful to the atmosphere then CO2 and as a result is speeding up the process of heating the planet. The hard tundra on which native villages and small towns are built are becoming unstable often causing the structures to collapse. This piece is about the melting of the permafrost which is shown below a structure in a wobbly state. The yellow gels are the warm air descending into the earth to met up and eventually melt the frozen blue ice.
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