Arctic

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The stations of the Arhangelsk network are located on the archipelagos of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya. The northernmost seismic stations in Russia recorded the earthquake in Turkey, scientists will use this data to study the Arctic. “Stations of the Arkhangelsk network recorded this ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. British scientists were experimenting with the usual form of ice, which has a hexagonal crystal lattice, and accidentally discovered a new form, called MDA (medium-density amorphous). The discovery cast doubt on the theory that liquid water consists of two immiscible liquids that, when frozen, form ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) recorded the longest thunderstorm in the history of observations at the largest Russian hydrometeorological observatory, Cape Baranov Ice Base on Severnaya Zemlya. According to the press service of the university, the data was received in July ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Polar State University (PSU) and the Moscow State University’s Geology Faculty representatives participated in the field school at the Zvenigorod Biological Station named after S.N. Skadovsky - an educational and scientific center for interdisciplinary fundamental and applied research in the field of engineering ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. During his visit to Norilsk, the Arctic and the Far North Cities Union president, State Duma deputy Alexey Veller noted the successful implementation of the program to install warm bus stops. “In Norilsk, everyone has been talking about warm bus stops for many years, that ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The reason for the sharp warming of the climate in the Arctic in 1979–1980 could be not human activity, but powerful earthquakes. The widely held view that global warming is mainly due to the carbon footprint of industry has recently been challenged. The seismogenic-trigger hypothesis ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Researchers at the research and educational center Russian Arctic proposed to produce a sulfur composite material for construction from technical sulfur, which accumulates in large quantities in deposits in the Arctic regions of Russia. Due to remoteness, waste is stored and not taken out. Other ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Researchers from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, together with foreign colleagues, have been studying processes in the Arctic ocean for ten years. The findings suggest that shrinking multi-year ice in the Arctic could lead to growth of microalgae and greater uptake of atmospheric carbon. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. About 70 investors in the Far East and the Arctic benefited from special support measures in 2022. To provide investment projects with capital, the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East has implemented two preferential financing programs. According to the first, developed for ...