Arctic
New observation point for permafrost opened in Yamal
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Center for Arctic Studies has drilled a new well in Yamal to monitor the permafrost state in Russia. It will be included in the state observation network created under the auspices of Roshydromet. The Scientific Center for the Study of the Arctic employees brought ...
Krasnoyarsk scientists propose to blow up plastic waste
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Experts from the Scientific and Educational Center (REC) Yenisey Siberia propose to recycle plastic using a detonation wave. This method maximally decomposes waste and is non-toxic. Now, after processing, part of the plastic waste remains in the form of particles with a diameter of ...
Scientists found ancient leech on Putorana plateau
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Researchers have found five new species and one new genus of leeches in Arctic waters - the work of scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences Ural Branch’s Federal Research Center for Comprehensive Study of the Arctic and St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU) took ...
Arctic floating university members saw white rainbow
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. According to the route, the scientists of the Arctic Floating University (AFU), after unloading on Dikson, had to go to cape Sterlegov in Taimyr, and then to the islands of Solitude and Izvestia CEC. In this part of the Kara sea, dense is ice, the ...
Arctic floating university explored Sopochnaya Karga сape in Taimyr
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Arctic Floating University (AFU) expedition members disembarked from the research expedition ship Mikhail Somov and for the first time conducted comprehensive research at cape Sopochnaya Karga of the Taimyr peninsula, where the polar station of the same name is located. Geologists, geomorphologists, microbiologists and ...
Scientists test film to protect glaciers from melting
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Chinese researchers led by Nanjing University Associate Professor Zhu Bing are testing a material that protects snow and ice from sunlight. The tests took place on the Dagu glacier at an altitude of 4.8 kilometers above sea level. Covering glaciers with rolls of reflective material ...
Abnormal heat predicted in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has predicted that 2023 could begin a five-year period that is up to 98 percent likely to be the warmest on record. Scientists at the Siberian Federal University (SibFU) also make disappointing predictions about changes in the behavior, habitat, timing ...
Algae in Arctic polluted with microplastics
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research found that the Arctic algae Melosira arctica contains ten times more microplastic particles than the surrounding water. This poses a threat to benthic animals and the plankton that feed on them. The results of ...
Scientists grow tomatoes in Arctic greenhouse
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists from the Siberian Federal University (SFU) propose using multi-level greenhouses with artificial light to grow vegetables in the Arctic. Ivan Timofeyenko, head of the city-farming laboratory at the SFU’s Gastronomy Institute, believes that such technologies are better than traditional translucent greenhouses in the ...