Arctic

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Researchers from the UK and the US have discovered that glaciers in the vicinity of active volcanoes move about 46 percent faster than in neighboring regions of the planet, which can be used to predict new lava flows and emissions of volcanic gases and ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Clean Arctic environmental project’s volunteers have removed about 4.5 tons of barrels from cape Chelyuskin; it will take at least ten years to completely clean up the territory, the project’s press service reports. “For a month, volunteers conducted a detailed reconnaissance of the territory, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Russian president Vladimir Putin, during the launching ceremony of the universal icebreaker Chukotka, spoke about the increase in cargo traffic along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) by 2030. “The year before last, 34 million tons were transported along the Northern Sea Route, in 2023 – ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. As studies have shown, microalgae in the Arctic ocean, at a depth of up to 50 meters, are capable of photosynthesis in conditions of almost complete darkness, writes the GoArctic portal. Unlike most plants, which lose color and die in the dark, these tiny diatoms ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Mesyatsev island has disappeared on Franz Josef Land in the Arctic. This was determined from space images by schoolchildren and students from the RISKSAT interregional project group led by MAI associate professor and candidate of technical sciences Alexey Kucheyko. “An ice formation, previously called Mesyatsev ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The temperature increase in the Arctic by the end of the 21st century may be from six to ten degrees, while winter will become shorter, the Russian Academy of Sciences’s P. P. Shirshov Oceanology Institute’s press service reported, as quoted by TASS. “According to research ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A new research vessel, Ivan Frolov, has been laid down at the Admiralty Shipyards. It will become the flagship of Roshydromet and the base for a powerful research complex. In this position, it will replace the current flagship, Akademik Fedorov. The vessel’s hull will be ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. If funds are allocated, a unified permafrost monitoring center may begin operating in Russia as early as 2025. According to Mikhail Kuznetsov, the Vostokgosplan federal autonomous scientific institution’s director, the institution plans to create data collection protocols and conduct a number of other works ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Researchers at the Russian Technological University (RTU MIREA) have developed a method for selecting specialists for work in the Arctic zone using a neurocomputer interface, the university’s press service reports. “The introduction of a neurocomputer interface (NCI) in research on Arctic expeditions will allow for ...