Arctic

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Researchers from the Siberian Physics and Technology Institute (SPTI) at Tomsk State University (TSU) have developed a new alloy that has the ability to remember its shape and recover from deformation in the temperature range from minus 70 to plus 100 degrees, the university’s ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The rate of global ocean warming has almost doubled since 2005. “Warming has been steadily increasing since the 1960s. And since about 2005, the rate of increase in ocean temperature has doubled”, oceanographer Karina von Schuckmann said at a video conference, presenting the organization’s report. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Microscopic invertebrates called tardigrades were discovered for the first time on Franz Josef Land (FJL), said Alexander Kirilov, director of the Russian Arctic national park. Tardigrades were seen in a soil sample from Alexandra Land island. “This year, during a comprehensive expedition to the archipelago, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The public environmental project Clean Arctic will develop a standard for waste collection and removal in the Far North. At the same time, it is proposed to finance the cleanups from regional budgets using environmental payments for fines, the project’s press service reports. A unified ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The authors of the service for measuring the carbon footprint for the Northern Sea Route waters are specialists from the marine research center of the Lomonosov Moscow state university and the Morintech company, which are part of the competence center consortium of the Technologies ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. As a result of the sixth research expedition Arctic-2022, samples of bitter and dark porous chocolate were extracted from the Taimyr soil. The samples were placed in the Arctic soil in 2004 and lay there in extreme climatic conditions for 20 years. According to scientists, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have presented a hypothesis that polar bears adapted to harsh Arctic conditions about 70 thousand years ago, the BMC Genomics portal reports, writes Lenta.ru. It is specified that during the scientific analysis, the genetic material of 119 modern polar ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists from the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry have discovered that climate change is stimulating the growth of harmful vegetation in Arctic lakes. According to the researchers, the increase in phytoplankton is caused by an increase in the phosphorus, nitrogen, and organic ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. By the end of 2024, the country plans to begin operating 58 permafrost monitoring points, the head of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) Igor Shumakov reported. He recalled that Roshydromet monitors the state of permafrost and is creating a state system ...