Arctic

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At the North Pole-42 drifting station, scientists adapted for the first time a gravimeter designed to measure absolute gravity on land objects in the high latitudes of the Arctic Ocean, the press service of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute reported. The institute noted that ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The expedition group at cape Chelyuskin will restore obelisks to the deceased polar explorers, the Clean Arctic project’s press service reports. “The area where the cemetery is located is on the coast - between the polar station and the border outpost. And cape Chelyuskin has ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Nauka publishing house has recorded an increase in the number of publications by Taimyr researchers in scientific journals. According to Mikhail Fomin, deputy director of the Nauka publishing house, an analysis of all scientific publications in the published journals showed a rapid coverage ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Northern hemisphere residents will have a rare opportunity to see an astronomical phenomenon - the flight of comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), which was discovered at the end of September. You can admire it for several hours on October 28 (in the evening). The ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. By 2030, 17 new icebreakers will appear in the eastern part of the Northern Sea Route. They will be provided by the state corporation Rosatom, the NSR directorate’s project head Sergey Chemko told, as reported on the website vesti-yamal.ru. They will include four non-nuclear vessels ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. An international team of scientists has discovered unusual ice formations in the Canadian Arctic Beaufort sea. The discovery indicates that permafrost formation processes previously unknown to science are taking place underwater. As TASS reports with reference to the Geophysical Research: Earth Surface journal, during expeditions ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Clean Arctic volunteers have arrived on the research vessel Mikhail Somov at the northernmost point of Eurasia – cape Chelyuskin. It took them a whole month to get to their destination, the Clean Arctic website reports. The volunteers have already conducted a preliminary survey of ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At the first all-Russian forum Pole, a project by Russian researchers Anastasia Shesterkina and Azalia Valiullina was presented, who proposed using hydrogen as a fuel in hard-to-reach Arctic territories. The authors emphasized that hydrogen is an environmentally friendly alternative to existing energy resources, but its ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Association of Geocryologists has officially appeared in Russia. This was announced at the final plenary session of the Northern forum in Yakutsk by Mikhail Zheleznyak, director of the Permafrost Institute of the of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Siberian Branch and the association ...