Climate change will make the planet's coldest regions more arable and populated. Supported by @pulitzercenter, @NYTmag and @ProPublica investigated how Russia stands to gain the most from global warming. Read part three of our series on climate migration. nyti.ms/3p1bl2y
When Nadezhda Tchebakova, a leading Russian climate ecologist, moved to Siberia for research, instead of the hostile land where Gulag prisoners were once banished, she began to notice a rapidly warming countryside of forests and temperate hills. nyti.ms/2K8x7mg 
Tchebakova estimated that by 2080, more than half of the surface permafrost in Asian Russia would be gone. One of the coldest and most ecologically hostile places on the planet is fast becoming pleasantly livable, she discovered. nyti.ms/2K8x7mg
Across Eastern Russia, wild forests, swamps and grasslands are slowly being transformed into orderly fields of soybeans, corn and wheat. nyti.ms/2K8x7mg
Vladimir Putin declared in 2013 that the remaking of Russia’s East “is our national priority for the entire 21st century.” nyti.ms/2K8x7mg
In the decades to come, as Russia’s grain and soy production rise due to climate change, its own food security will give it another wedge to drive into geopolitics. nyti.ms/2K8x7mg
Read the @NYTMag cover story on how Russia could emerge as the winner of the global climate crisis.
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