{"id":147642,"date":"2026-08-18T02:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/147642\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T02:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:45:11","slug":"why-siberias-warming-landscape-could-shatter-trumps-arctic-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/147642\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Siberia\u2019s warming landscape could shatter Trump\u2019s Arctic ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the United States, Russia and China race to turn a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/arctic?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">melting Arctic<\/a> into the world\u2019s next major economic gateway, their strategic ambitions face a hidden threat: thawing permafrost.Since returning to office last year, US President Donald Trump has pushed <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3319561\/trumps-arctic-strategy-stirs-debate-over-chinas-polar-shipping-ambitions?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">to expand America\u2019s Arctic footprint<\/a>. This includes investing in icebreakers to counter Russian and Chinese shipping ambitions, unlocking natural resources in Alaska and renewing efforts to buy or annex Greenland.Yet, as the three powers vie for <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3364278\/why-arctic-sea-route-has-become-so-important-china-and-russia?module=top_story&amp;pgtype=homepage?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">control of Arctic sea lanes<\/a> and minerals, rapidly thawing permafrost in Russia\u2019s Siberia could derail their plans. According to a new international study led by Chinese scientists, the massive cost of collapsing ground threatens to overshadow the region\u2019s economic potential.<\/p>\n<p>What are Trump\u2019s motivations for wanting the US to take over Greenland?<\/p>\n<p>Warming in the Arctic is occurring almost four times faster than the global average. This phenomenon, known as <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/article\/3336680\/arctic-has-hottest-year-ever-recorded-climate-impacts-cascade?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arctic amplification<\/a>, has triggered a rapid thaw of the permafrost that covers most of the region.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Permafrost refers to the ground in cold regions that has stayed at a temperature below 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit) for at least two consecutive years, and its melting could release a huge amount of greenhouse gas that pushes temperatures even higher.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Around 46 per cent of the northern hemisphere\u2019s permafrost is in Siberia.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">By 2050, higher methane emissions as a result of permafrost thaw and increasing wildfires in Siberia could offset 20 per cent of the global methane reduction required to meet our climate targets, according to the study led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and published in the peer-reviewed journal Science on August 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the United States, Russia and China race to turn a melting Arctic into the world\u2019s next major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[6041,649,173,174,184,57,4335,64172,36362,70183,238,70182,2010,241,652],"class_list":["post-147642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-alaska","tag-arctic","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-greenland","tag-moscow","tag-noaa","tag-permafrost","tag-polar-science","tag-russia","tag-siberia","tag-suez-canal","tag-ukraine","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117114223088590686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}