Arctic

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For the first time in the world, an unmanned aerial vehicle has been launched from the nuclear icebreaker Taimyr in the Arctic. Tests of the ice reconnaissance complex were carried out on the helipad of a drifting icebreaker in the waters of the Ob ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. An international team of scientists has uncovered the mechanism behind the atlanticization of the Arctic Ocean and explained why the disappearance of sea ice has slowed down since 2007. It turns out that an atmospheric feature known as the Arctic Dipole plays a key ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists have found that climate change towards warming contributes to a decrease in the size of the deep-sea inhabitants. However, researchers say, this applies in general to all wild animals and plants, although to a lesser extent. Scientists from the University of St. Andrews in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists from the SB RAS Oil and Gas Geology and Geophysics Institute named after A.A. Trofimuk (INGG) have developed a program for the development of the Samoilovsky Island research station in the Lena river delta as an international center for the Arctic comprehensive research ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Due to the active ice melting, the ice-resistant self-propelled platform (LSP) North Pole unmoored from the collapsing ice floe and relocated to another, more reliable and durable one. Scientists who have begun the final stage of the study are setting up a new camp ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the village of Zhdaniha - this settlement is located 27 kilometers from Hatanga - they harvested potatoes. Potatoes were planted in open ground in the spring as an experiment. The initiator was the territorial department head Vera Cherepanova. And on September 1, the village ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Russian Academy of Sciences Plant Physiology Institute’s specialists found an unknown species of diatoms in the place where the Ob flows into the Kara sea. They were named after Arctic explorer Pyotr Shirshov - Fragilaria shirshovii. During the expedition of the floating university, researchers ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. After 43 years of observing permafrost thaw in the Yamal tundra, scientists have concluded that vegetation, soil moisture and ice content compensate for the degradation of permafrost. The research was carried out by scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Branch’s Tyumen Scientific Center’s ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Specialists of the Russian Chemical Technology University named after Mendeleyev (RCTU) presented a domestic nutrient composition for hydroponic installations. The new development was implemented with the Education and Science Ministry’s Priority 2030 program support. The nutrient composition could be widely used in the Arctic, as ...