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Scientists explain ozone hole over Arctic appearing

Scientists explain ozone hole over Arctic appearing

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists from the Beijing University explain the formation of a huge ozone hole over the Arctic last year with a temperature anomaly. This is reported by mir24.tv with reference to the publication Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. The researchers noticed that the waters of the North ...

Nornickel to increase support for Taimyr indigenous peoples

Nornickel to increase support for Taimyr indigenous peoples

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Nornickel and the Association of Indigenous Minorities of Taimyr have signed an additional agreement to the basic agreement. The document clarified the list of the most relevant events for the indigenous peoples that the company will support, and also increased the amount of their funding ...

Arctic unicorns may disappear due to man-made noise

Arctic unicorns may disappear due to man-made noise

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Over the past 50 years, the oceans have become much noisier due to ship engines, exploration and mining, military sonars, blasting in the construction of oil and wind farms. Moreover, the low-frequency noise has significantly increased - the range that many marine mammals use ...

Northern Fleet begins large-scale exercises on Taimyr

Northern Fleet begins large-scale exercises on Taimyr

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Russia's Northern Fleet is conducting major interspecific tactical exercises in the Arctic. They involve about 50 ships, 120 aircraft and helicopters and 8000 military personnel. Today naval sailors and marines have worked out the rescuing of the Dudinka seaport territory, conditionally captured by a sabotage ...

Missing polar explorers’ ship found near Novaya Zemlya

Missing polar explorers’ ship found near Novaya Zemlya

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Military researchers, together with the Russian Geographical Society (RGO), discovered a wooden underwater object at the bottom of the Yenisey gulf near Novaya Zemlya, which will help reveal the secrets of the Arctic exploration. The find is reported by the press office of the ...

Russian hydrometeorological complex started working in orbit

Russian hydrometeorological complex started working in orbit

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Flight tests of the first Russian satellite for monitoring the Arctic climate Arktika-M have been completed. The hydrometeorological complex started working in orbit. “The state commission reviewed the results of flight tests, it was decided to complete the tests, it was recommended to transfer the ...

55 scientists conducted large-scale studies in Arctic

55 scientists conducted large-scale studies in Arctic

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. 55 scientists - students, graduate students and teachers from Norilsk, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Arhangelsk, Saratov - conducted large-scale research in the Arctic at the Arctic Floating University this summer. For 21 days, the legendary icebreaker Mikhail Somov sailed along the route: Cape Desire on Novaya ...

Global warming activates viruses in Arctic

Global warming activates viruses in Arctic

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Climate change could encourage viruses in the Arctic to become more active and learn to infect new hosts. This is the conclusion made by Canadian scientists after researching the largest Arctic lake Hazen. The researchers collected soil and sediment from the lake. In the RNA ...

Experts tell how to catch northern lights

Experts tell how to catch northern lights

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The polar day in Norilsk came to an end in July. Until September 15, the city has twilight nights, which means that you can already witness an unusual atmospheric phenomenon - the aurora borealis. As photographer Mikhail Podolyak told us, the sky should be cloudless ...