Severny Gorod examined how China’s state media — from the Xinhua news agency to Global Times — tell their readers the story of developing the Arctic and the Northern Sea ...
Arctic
Polar bear made compliment to icebreaker’s chef
#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 ...
Region residents invited to Arctic expeditions of 1920s-30s (6+)
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This year, the 90th anniversary of the opening of regular shipping along the Northern Sea Route is celebrated. The Krasnoyarsk region history is inextricably linked with this grandiose project, fully implemented by our state. It was the Yenisey Siberia that became the most important stage ...
North Pole-41 expedition starts observations
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For a month, the polar explorers have been deploying scientific laboratories and test sites at a distance of 500 meters from the platform. The team has now begun the observation program. The constructed polygon includes geophysical, ice research, meteorological stations: laboratories, an oceanographic terminal, a ...
Arctic waters first major study results presented
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) presented the results of the world's first large-scale study of life in the waters of the Arctic ocean, taking into account changes in depth. The Russian scientists’ analysis for the first time covered the entire Arctic ocean, affecting the ...
Scientists measure sea ice melting rate in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Over the past 20 years, sea ice in the Arctic has been shrinking twice faster. This is stated in the study by climatologists from the Geography Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which was published in the Atmosphere magazine. Scientists compared the rate of ...
Nornickel to release climate change public report
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The increase in atmospheric air temperature in Norilsk amounted to 0.6 degrees per decade. This was shown by a study conducted by Nornickel together with scientists from the Atmospheric Physics Institute. “Together with the scientists, we have carried out one of the first comprehensive studies ...
Scientists develop unmanned ice navigation basis
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A team of scientists from the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after Alekseyev has developed an original control system for the ship's power plant in the Arctic. The system automates the navigators’ work, reduces the icebreakers’ operating costs, and in the future will ...
Roscosmos prepares nine satellites for Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Yury Trutnev, deputy prime minister of Russia, the Russian Federation president’s plenipotentiary representative in the Far Eastern Federal District, and Yury Borisov, general director of the Roscosmos State Corporation, held a meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome on the creation of an Arctic satellite constellation ...
Arctic faces radical climate change
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. While the Arctic is more known for snow blankets than rain clouds, a new study suggests that the number of rainy days in the region will roughly double by the end of this century. In this century, the Arctic will become wetter. A study published ...