Arctic

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Entrepreneurs from the Krasnoyarsk region presented wild plants, agricultural products and cosmetics at the largest exhibition in the United Arab Emirates. The products were highly appreciated by the participants and visitors of the event. The Organic&Natural Products Expo has been running for 20 years. This ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A thermometer with a luminous Nornickel logo on the 200-meter chimney at the Kola MMC claims to be one of the largest in the country. According to the Kn51.ru online portal, a 77-meter light structure in the form of a thermometer is installed on the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Nornickel and scientists from the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS) summed up the preliminary results of the Big Scientific Expedition (BSE), a large-scale study of biodiversity in the territories of the company's operating enterprises in Transbaikalia and Taimyr.  “Research of ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Ural will go on its first working voyage on December 3, the Day of the Russian Nuclear Icebreaker Fleet. The crew will have to work in the Ob-Yenisey region of the Kara sea. Ural is the third ship of 22220 project, built at ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Single-celled algae, which convert sunlight into nutrients, are an important link in the food chain. Phytoplankton blooms in summer in the Arctic and Antarctica oceans waters are not uncommon. In winter, when the ice thickness increases, the algae die - as scientists used to ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Polar night does not necessarily mean complete darkness for 45 days - during this period, part of the day can pass at dusk. At different times of the polar night, experts distinguish civil polar night, navigational and astronomical ones. When dusk does not occur ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Researchers at Aix-Marseille University in France revived viruses from permafrost samples near the mouth of the Lena river in the Yakutsk region and Kamchatka back in 2014. Among others, the researchers resurrected three new viruses from frozen mammoth dung and a piece of permafrost ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Russian scientists from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, together with German scientists, found that the Kara and Barents seas absorb over 13.6 million tons of CO2 (carbon dioxide) every year. The “carbon conveyor” transports from the air to the depths of the ocean a ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Andrey Tenitsky, the Vaigach nuclear-powered icebreaker’s captain, filmed a curious polar bear’s visit. The meeting of polar explorers and the predator took place in the north of the region, near Sibiryakov island, which is located in the Kara sea, separated from Taimyr by the ...