Arctic
International team made fastest round-the-world trip
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The fifth international scientific and educational expedition of Rosatom Icebreaker of Knowledge reached the North Pole on August 17 on the nuclear icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy. The participants of the expedition delivered their countries’ flags to the top of the planet. Immediately after landing on ...
Legendary icebreaker Lenin undergoes repairs
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The world’s first nuclear icebreaker Lenin with the museum of the same name on board was towed by tugboats from its mooring place near the marine station in Murmansk to the dock for scheduled repairs, Atomflot reports. The nuclear icebreaker Lenin is the founder of ...
Global warming to reduce world fish stocks
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Global warming associated with climate change will lead to a decrease in fish stocks and biomass in the world’s oceans by 10 to 40 percent by the end of the century, depending on the region and the upcoming temperature rise scenario. Such data is ...
Arctic ocean to absorb less CO2 by 2100
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A team of scientists led by David Nielsen from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany assessed how the destruction of Arctic coasts affects the carbon balance of the Arctic ocean in a study published in Nature Climate Change. The Arctic is the most ...
Northern Sea Route year-round navigation to begin this year
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This means that from November, ships carrying Arctic oil or liquefied natural gas (LNG) will not have to turn west and go around the entire continent to get to Asia. Until this year, navigation in the east direction was suspended from November to June, ...
Rosatom plans experimental voyage along Yenisey
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. As part of the Efficient Transport System national project development, the Great Northern Sea Route Development federal project is being prepared. In particular, it is planned to develop river transport corridors leading to the Arctic highway, Morskie Vesti Rossii reports. One of the tasks that ...
Scientists developed modular wind turbine for Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A modular wind turbine developed by scientists from the St. Petersburg polytechnic university is adapted to the harsh conditions of the Arctic and uses digital technologies. This increases the efficiency of energy supply to remote settlements and industrial facilities in the northern regions. “The problem ...
About 400 abandoned objects found in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The work of the expedition Clean Arctic - East-77 on compiling a map of the USSR economic heritage has been completed in the Arctic. After the events, it became known that almost 400 unused structures will have to be removed in seven regions, and ...
Russian weather monitoring complex successfully tested in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Roselectronics holding company has completed factory tests of a new weather and ice monitoring complex, which will provide detailed weather information for any requested area of the terrain, and will also provide data to sea vessels in the Arctic in the absence of communication ...