Riddles of the cryosphere of the Earth

Russia is a unique country, the life and activities of the part of the population of which passes in a natural cold and permafrost. The honor of living in the cryosphere of the Northern Hemisphere is shared with us by residents of Greenland, Denmark, Iceland, Canada, Norway, the USA, Finland and Sweden. In the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, a sixth part of GDP is created and about a quarter of Russia is provided. More than 80% of Russian gas is extracted here, the bulk of diamonds, nickel, cobalt and platinum, apatitis, antimony and rare metals, over half of the copper produced in the country. A third of the Russian fish and seafood is caught in the polar seas, a fifth of the canned fish is produced. At the same time, this territory rich in natural resources, the bowels of which are constrained by permafrost, always considered the territory of an extremely cold climate, today (due to warming) becomes a zone of manifestation of potential geocryological dangers and technological disasters. The book discusses the obvious and incredible features of a kind of cold products: snow and hail, continental cover and mountain glaciers, sea ice, many years of frozen breeds (eternal permafrost), deposits of underground ice and gas hydrates, hypothermarized underground waters (cryophagic) and sea icy "icicles "(Brianiklov) The book proposed to the attention of the reader is a collection of popular science essays about the riddles of the cryosphere of the Earth, the knowledge of which may be useful