Arctic
Peat and moss help preserve permafrost
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At the seminar Permafrost in a Changing Climate, held with the support of the Arctic Development Project Office (PORA) at Ukhta State University, permafrost specialist, Doctor of Geography Nelli Shpolyanskaya spoke about the relationship between frozen rocks and climate. Abstracts from the material are provided ...
Putorana plateau picture included in Russian Post postcards series
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Russian Post, together with the Federal Tourism Agency and the Russian Geographical Society, has released a limited series of postcards with the beauties of different regions of Russia. The Arctic territories also entered there. The postcards are printed with shots of landscape photography masters. The ...
Arctic climate sharp change cause may be planetary waves
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The reason for sharp fluctuations in temperature at high latitudes may be changes in the parameters of the Earth's atmosphere, lasting for more than two weeks. This conclusion was made by the researchers of St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU). Physicists, using a mathematical model, studied ...
Arctic permafrost thawing damage estimated at seven trillion rubles
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Permafrost degradation is now responsible for 29 percent of lost oil and gas production from Arctic fields. By 2050, the damage to the Russian economy from thawing permafrost could reach seven trillion rubles. This figure was voiced at parliamentary hearings on the permafrost issues legal ...
Woolly mammoths prepared to move to Arctic in advance
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA.THIS IS TAIMYR. The common ancestor of the southern, steppe, Colombian, woolly and dozens of other mammoths lived in Africa about six million years ago. Its descendants in the south evolved into modern African and Indian elephants, while others dispersed to more northern latitudes, along the way ...
160 million years old amber found in Taimyr
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The funds of the Taimyr Museum of Local Lore contain samples of amber from three regions of the peninsula that are very remote from each other - the Syndassko village vicinity, the Maimeche river mouth and the Chelyuskin peninsula. The most unique and ancient exhibit ...
Taimyr waits for ice drift
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. “This year we are a little behind in the ice drift edge advancing - by about 80 kilometers compared to last year. Based on the hydrological and meteorological situation, the beginning of the water rise in the Yenisey near Dudinka is expected on May ...
Arctic permafrost preservation should become federal task
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Yury Zaharinsky, a senior researcher at the Siberian Federal University (SFU), made a presentation at parliamentary hearings in the State Duma on improving the legal regulation of permafrost issues. In our region, more than 65 percent of the territory belongs to the permafrost zone. ...
Taimyr people catch Peter the Great’s favorite fish
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In April, the smelt run in the Yenisey begins. Every spring it rises up the river to spawn, and Taimyr fishermen open the season for catching “cucumber” fish, named so because of its characteristic fresh smell. They say that the Russian tsar Peter the Great ...