Arctic

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Our planet is in the middle of another interglacial period. The warm climate will continue for about ten thousand years. This was stated by the minister of natural resources and ecology of Russia Alexander Kozlov with reference to scientists from the Arctic and Antarctic ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A gala evening dedicated to the presentation of qualification marks to polar explorers took place in Moscow. Ten participants of high-latitude expeditions were awarded the polar explorer-instructor qualification. “The 2024–2025 expeditions will be led by trained professional polar explorers”, said Veronika Simonova, head of the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A youth group of oceanologists for the first time discovered abnormally high internal waves in the Russian sector of the Arctic. Scientists carried out measurements in the Kara Gate strait, connecting the Barents and Kara seas off the coast of Taimyr. It was found that ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the future, underwater tankers and dry cargo ships will be used to transport goods in the Arctic. Global climate change is making the Arctic increasingly attractive for shipping, which only contributes to the active introduction of new research technology and modes of transport in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The president of the Russian Federation, via teleconference, put into trial operation the new wintering complex of the Russian Vostok station in Central Antarctica. A unique complex with laboratories, a cinema hall, a gym, a medical unit and a powerful power plant will appear on ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Paulsen publishing house has published on its website an electronic version of the book Islands and Archipelagos of the Kara Sea, the Yamal and Taimyr Peninsulas by doctor of historical sciences and honorary polar explorer Pyotr Boyarsky. Anyone can read it for free. The ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Baltic Shipyard will lay down the next universal nuclear icebreaker of Project 22220 on the Leningrad Blockade Day, January 27. The new ship will be named in honor of the hero city, the Federation Council chairman Valentina Matvienko said in her Telegram channel. “You ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Antarctica is 98 percent covered with ice, and the Arctic is a glacier, while the Arctic zone includes the territories of eight countries: Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States. Today, about four million people live in the Arctic, of ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the Earth. The Sandia researchers believe that these processes are enhanced by a decrease in sunlight reflectivity, or albedo. Scientists conducted a study using GPS - they recorded sunlight reflected from the Arctic. ...