Arctic

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the Hatanga bay, researchers for the first time found a fossil of the steppe saiga antelope (saiga). The discovery was made by scientists from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) together with colleagues from the All-Russian Research Geological Institute. Saigas. Photo: AARI The remains ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The expedition Clean Arctic - Vostok-77 started on August 15 from the Murmansk seaport. During the year, scientists from 20 institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and several universities will have to travel more than 12 thousand kilometers through the little-explored northern regions ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. 12 lowland bisons from Denmark were brought to the north of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District to the Ingilorsky natural park - scientists hope that the animals will take on the role of mammoths that died out 11 thousand years ago and help restore the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Russian State Agrarian University - Timiryazev Moscow Agricultural Academy’s Agrotechnologies of the Future scientific center’s artificial climate laboratory is implementing the flagship project - New Agrotechnologies for the Arctic Zone. Smart city farms - vertical greenhouses with light, temperature and humidity sensors - have ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Biologists found in amber from Taimyr a nematophagus - a predatory fungus that eat soil nematode worms. The discovery is dated to the period when dinosaurs still lived on Earth. According to the scientific publication Naked Science, the carnivorous mushroom could catch and kill nematodes. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists at the Utrecht University in the Netherlands have found that 500 thousand tons of plastic waste enters the oceans every year and most of the garbage floats on the surface for decades. To calculate the types of plastic that enters the ocean and how ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Researchers from the Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Branch’s Central Siberian Botanical Garden together with scientists from China, France and the United States, are studying the evolution of flora in the Arctic. They believe that plants at high latitudes appeared earlier than previously thought. Scientists ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Due to climate change, the Atlantic Meridional Circulation (AMOC), which includes the Gulf Stream, may be disrupted between 2025 and 2095, with the most likely peak in 2050. This forecast was given by Sergey Muhametov, senior lecturer in the Moscow State University Geography ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In September, the Save the Forest campaign will be held in Russia - residents of the Arctic will also be able to join it. All locations, dates and times will soon appear on the green action interactive map at сохранимлес.рф site. Organizers will give inventory ...