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 ...
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Walrus Day celebrated in Russia
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Today the Arctic regions of Russia are celebrating Walrus Day. This ecological holiday was initiated by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Council for Marine Mammals in 2008. It aims to draw attention to the problems of conservation of ...
Severe snowstorm covered Norilsk at weekend
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On Saturday, November 21, bad weather happened in Norilsk: blizzard was raging, the thermometers showed an abnormal temperature for November in the Arctic - plus 1. Wind gusts exceeded 20 m/s. 13 car accidents were registered in two days. Flights to ...
New terminal opens in Arctic Dikson
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A new block-modular terminal has opened at Dikson airport. The project cost was 60 million rubles. Last year, the Krasnoyarye Airports company, which manages the airport on Dikson island, ordered a rapidly erected prefabricated structure for the Arctic air hub. In ...
Plastic can biodegrade in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Bioplastic can be used in sub-arctic latitudes without harm to the environment, as it is capable of degradation thanks to soil bacteria. The ability of bioplastics to degrade in fragile ecosystems such as the Arctic will reduce environmental damage. This was ...
Scientists predict abnormally cold winters in Siberia
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Reduction in the area of Arctic sea ice in October will lead to cooling and abnormally cold winters in Siberia and European Russia in December and January. Russian scientists found that observing ice in the Arctic can predict the onset of ...
Arctic to be monitored from Russian satellite
The launch of the first Arktika-M spacecraft for environmental monitoring in the Arctic is scheduled for February 2021. “The launch of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Fregat upper stage and the first Arktika-M satellite from the Baikonur cosmodrome is scheduled for February 28”, a source ...
World’s only ice dam being built in Khatanga seaport
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. #THIS IS TAIMYR. The Khatanga sea trade port, where the necessary equipment is unloaded and loaded during the northern delivery to the villages of Taimyr, is located on the right bank of the Khatanga river. When the river breaks open in the spring ...
Russian engineers created giant batteries for northern villages
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Experts of the Computer Modeling and Engineering in the Field of Energy and Power Engineering engineering center (Kazan) have developed an energy storage unit with a capacity of up to 300 kilowatts. The unit is designed for operation in the ...
Polar night coming to Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Feeling sleepy, fatigue is growing, nerves fail. The polar night is coming to the Arctic. It lasts from November to January, when the sun begins to rise slightly over the horizon. November is the period of entering the polar night ...