Arctic
Arctic floating university to study atlantic walruses
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The XV expedition of the Arctic floating university, which started from Dikson, is taking place on board the research expedition ship Mikhail Somov. The 19 people are specialists from Rosneft, the Arctic Research and Design Center for Offshore Development, NArFU, Moscow State University), Karpinsky All-Russian ...
Nornickel helped scientists count Arctic Ocean inhabitants
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists from the Animal Systematics and Ecology Institute (ASEI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Branch during the Great Scientific Expedition on the dry-cargo ship Nornickel studied the birds biodiversity in the Arctic along the Dudinka-Murmansk route. Candidate of Biological Sciences Igor Chupin has ...
New Arctic seismic station to help Northern Sea Route navigation
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A stationary seismic station was installed for the first time on the territory of the Malye Karmakuly polar station, on Yuzhny island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. This is a very important event for the registration of earthquakes in the Arctic. As Galina Antonovskaya, the ...
Scientists study Arctic to find life on other planets
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A team of scientists from Scotland went on a month-long expedition to the Canadian Arctic to find out if there is water or life on Jupiter's moon Europa. This is reported by IA Regnum with reference to the British online magazine The Press and ...
Taimyr mammoth refuted western scientists’ data
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The sensational discovery of the mammoth (named Zhenya) remains on the Taimyr peninsula in 2012 is still being discussed by the scientific community. Presumably lived 30-35 thousand years ago, the well-preserved giant is now in the Taimyr Museum of Local Lore. And recently, information about ...
Why ice covered planet so fast 100 000 years ago
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It is possible that the new study by scientists from the University of Arizona solves two problems of paleoclimatology at once: where did the ice sheets that extended over vast expanses in the ice age 100 000 years ago come from, and how could ...
Russia creates glaciers studying new method
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A new method for studying the glaciers surface using drones was proposed by scientists from the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (MSUGC). According to the authors, the results of their work will provide new data on the nature of the movement (oscillations) ...
Where microplastic comes from in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists have found microplastics in the Arctic, before that it had already been found in Baikal lake, in food and even in human body. How plastic turns into microplastics, where it comes from in the Arctic Circle and what threats it poses, experts discussed ...
Talented young people visited North Pole
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The polar voyage for 70 gifted high school students from different parts of Russia, organized with the support of the state corporation Rosatom, has become a unique opportunity to touch the beauties of the Arctic and gain new knowledge. The Knowledge Icebreaker 2022 expedition is ...