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Arctic

Rosneft tests microbes eating hydrocarbons in Arctic seas

Rosneft tests microbes eating hydrocarbons in Arctic seas

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At the Moscow State University’s White Sea Biological Station, experts from the Arctic Research Center of the Rosneft oil company and the Innopraktika non-state development institute have begun the final stage of testing a microbial preparation that can utilize hydrocarbons in the seas of ...

Internet to appear at North Pole in 2026

Internet to appear at North Pole in 2026

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Skif system satellites, which will be launched into low-Earth orbit, will provide Internet access in the Russian Arctic from 2026. Options to provide users in the Arctic with broadband, secure access to the World Wide Web without loss of quality will be discussed ...

Aerostat over Taimyr: Fedor Konyuhov gives details

Aerostat over Taimyr: Fedor Konyuhov gives details

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Some days ago, Taimyr Hatanga met a balloon with extreme aeronauts: Fedor Konyuhov and Ivan Menyailo set a world record for the distance of a balloon flight beyond the Arctic Circle. They spent two days in the sky. On the flight’s first day, they overcame ...

Scientists unravel Arctic disappearing reservoir mystery

Scientists unravel Arctic disappearing reservoir mystery

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) have found explanations for the water disappearing in lake Spartakovskoye on the Bolshevik island of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, which is located north of the Taimyr peninsula in the Krasnoyarsk region on the border ...

Mail drone tested in Arctic

Mail drone tested in Arctic

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Addressees living beyond the Arctic Circle received their parcels thanks to the BAS-200 apparatus of the Russian Helicopters holding. The unmanned aerial vehicle performed demonstration flights for the Russian Post in the Salehard area of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District at low temperatures. Flights of the ...

Northern Sea Route gets particular importance

Northern Sea Route gets particular importance

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Deputy prime minister Alexander Novak held a meeting on the development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) until 2035. Representatives of relevant departments, shippers, and Rosatom State Corporation discussed ensuring safe navigation during winter-spring navigation, cargo turnover indicators, the construction of icebreakers, the results of ...

Accelerated water cycle in Arctic can affect entire ecosystem

Accelerated water cycle in Arctic can affect entire ecosystem

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Climate change and the reduction in the area of Siberian forests have led to an acceleration of the water cycle in the zone of the Arctic shelf. And this, in turn, leads to a change in the shelf sea bottom, which has a negative ...

Smart housing for Arctic to be designed in Norilsk

Smart housing for Arctic to be designed in Norilsk

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilsk project was among the winners of the All-Russian inter-university program of student expeditions Rediscovering Russia. The developers will be engaged in energy-efficient housing in the Arctic using the example of our northern city. Applications for participation in the project were submitted by 113 ...

Nornickel presents monitoring buildings system at Skolkovo

Nornickel presents monitoring buildings system at Skolkovo

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. As part of the Pure Country exhibition at the Skolkovo Technopark, a discussion took place on approaches to monitoring and assessing changes in permafrost. The purpose of organizing the state background monitoring system is to collect, accumulate and analyze data on the state of permafrost ...