Because of the permafrost, Aikhal was built on steel poles for support.
Despite changes being wrought by global warming, experts believe the deep permafrost will be reliably cool for at least the next 100 years.
For example glaciers shrinking, permafrost thawing, earlier flowering of trees.
Global warming and the melting of vast areas of Siberian permafrost has been in the news recently.
In some areas, permafrost is now emitting carbon, which could potentially accelerate the greenhouse effect and global warming.
In the subarctic regions, changes are obvious as large areas of permafrost begin to melt and ice-free sea passages increase.
In the summer, the cold temperatures kept permanent layers of ice on the ground, permafrost, which turned to mud on warmer days.
Perhaps the most fascinating result of melting permafrost has been the appearance of ancient relics from Arctic peoples.
Permafrost occupies nearly a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere, but as global temperatures rise, it's melting.
Permafrost, which is solid, frozen soil, constitutes about 25 percent of the land area in the Northern Hemisphere.
So maybe warming thaws the permafrost, which in turn produces more greenhouse gases, and more warming.
Specific investigations of Scandinavian ice masses and Canadian permafrost and periglacial processes will be undertaken.
Sunspots and increased solar activity, permafrost, and a warming arctic tundra all play a role in raising the planet's average temperature.
The combination of ground temperatures only slightly below zero, high ice contents and steep slopes, makes mountain permafrost particularly vulnerable to changes.
This has enormous implications for the infrastructure in this area of continuous permafrost.
This latest embarrassing setback follows news last month that well testing at another Siberian field would be delayed due to melting permafrost.
Until recently, permafrost has locked carbon and methane beneath the surface of the planet.
When the jet engines were not enough, they blasted holes into the frozen ground with dynamite.Due to the presence of permafrost, Mirny Mine's processing plant was built 20 miles away from the mine.