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a frozen library where 10,000 years of dead plants wait quietly to exhale carbon.
means A vast, treeless plain found in arctic and alpine regions, where the subsoil stays permanently frozen and only low-growing plants survive.
from From Russian тундра (tundra), which the Russians borrowed from the Sami languages of the far north — possibly Kildin Sami 'tūndâr,' meaning an uplands or treeless mountain tract. The word traveled south into Russian and then out into the wider world, carrying with it the chill of the lands it named.
- name origin
- From Russian, meaning treeless mountain tract.
- frozen vault
- Permafrost stores twice the carbon in our atmosphere.
- slow growth
- Arctic willows spread inches over entire decades.
- summer trick
- Sun never sets for weeks straight.
- undead bodies
- Permafrost has preserved mammoths for 40,000 years.
siberian arctic tundra — largest tundra region, covers ~65% of russia's territory north of the arctic circle
canadian arctic archipelago — tundra covering 1.3 million km² across northern canada with permafrost
yamal peninsula — specific tundra region in northwestern siberia, russia, inhabited by nenets herders