And what happens is when you start flooding permafrost areas, permafrost starts to deteriorate.

“永久冻土区被淹没后会开始解冻。

So is there a way to save the permafrost?

那有办法拯救永久冻土吗？

The researchers also searched the permafrost for new clues to the age of the fossils.

研究人员还在永久冻土层中寻找化石年代的新线索。

In turn, the rising temperature causes more permafrost to thaw, releasing more methane.

反过来，气温上升导致更多的永久冻土融化，从而释放出更多的甲烷。

Methane gas somehow accumulates in the permafrost of Siberia.

甲烷气体以某种方式积聚在西伯利亚的永久冻土层中。

The researchers dug up permafrost and brought it back to Copenhagen to search for DNA.

研究人员挖出永久冻土，并将其带回哥本哈根寻找DNA。

That is because the mountain is covered with permafrost.

这是因为那座山被永久冻土所覆盖。

The layer of permafrost beneath prevents water draining away.

下面的永冻土层阻的流失。

The researchers ruled out the possibility that the DNA came from younger species that contaminated the older permafrost.

研究人员排除这些DNA来自较年轻的物种，而这些物种污染较古老的永久冻土的可能性。

Arctic residents and scientists have been observing permafrost thaw now for decades.

北极地区的居民和科学家们已经观测数十年的永久冻土融化。

We only found out about the permafrost When it was too late.

等我们发现永久冻土层时 却为时已晚。

Cases are now being reported of buildings collapsing as the permafrost melts.

有报道称，目前随着冻土的融化，已出现建筑物倒塌的情况。

Management of forests, transportation, the oceans, the melting of the permafrost.

与森林，交通，海洋，和永久冻土层的融化都有关系。

You see, the permafrost is one of the world's largest carbon reservoirs.

永久冻土是世界上最大的碳储存库之一。

Buried in Siberian permafrost, not growing or dividing, they're not in suspended animation.

埋在西伯利亚永久冻土中，不生长或分裂，它们不是假死。

Ten percent still is-and a further 14 percent is in a state of permafrost.

即便是现在，依然有10%的陆地覆盖着冰雪。更有14%的地区是永久冻土带。

And this leads to a preservation of around 80 percent of the original-today's permafrost area.

这可以保存目前80%的原始永久冻土区。

Now normally the permafrost would prevent the growth of plants because they cannot establish roots.

通常来说，冻土层会阻植物生长，因为它们无法生根。

Such anxiety looks premature: house-price rises represent a thawing in the property permafrost rather than a market on fire.

房价攀升仅表示冰冻的房地产市场正逐步回暖，而非过热。

A recent oil spill near the Arctic city of Norilsk was partly blamed on melting permafrost.

最近在北极城市诺里尔斯克附近发生的石油泄漏，部分原因是永冻土融化。