Arctic
500 thousand rubles for a tourist project
56 million rubles were allocated to support small and medium-sized tourist businesses in the Krasnoyarsk region. The industry has been hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The competition for the development of domestic and inbound tourism grants starts today, July 29. 36 million rubles will be allocated ...
White nights came to Norilsk
The polar day in Norilsk has lasted for 68 days - from May 19 to July 25. This is the time when the sun makes a circle across the sky without going over the horizon. Today the period of white nights has begun. At the 69th ...
Big Norilsk Expedition started
The first complex academic expedition in the Arctic within last 20 years started on July 27. The field stage began in Taimyr and the Norilsk industrial area with the participation of the scientists from Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Barnaul and Yakutsk. The expedition is headed by ...
Polar bears to be counted
On August 1, Rosprirodnadzor launches the project Master of the Arctic. Together with scientists, experts want to study the population of polar bears - to determine their habitats and interaction both with each other and with other species. The head of Rosprirodnadzor, Svetlana Radionova, noted that ...
Data for future generations
The largest web service for hosting and collaborative development of IT projects GitHub recorded 21TB of data with code on 186 film rolls. The archive with the records was placed in the Arctic Code Vault, located in an abandoned coal mine in the mountains of ...
Polar bears can disappear soon
Global warming threatens the majority of polar bear populations in the Arctic, as the rapid ice melting makes predators unable to live as usual. This reduces their chances of survival. RIA Novosti, citing the results of the study published in the Nature Climate Change magazine, writes ...
Scientists to study Arctic geology
The preparation of a long-term program for geological exploration of the Arctic region was announced by deputy minister for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, Alexander Krutikov, at an online seminar at the Valdai International Discussion Club. According to the deputy minister, now ...
UNESCO to protect indigenous languages
The Arctic Development Project Office (PORA) has also joined the work of the UNESCO special group. By October, the group should prepare a draft Global Workplan for the Decade of Languages and endorse it at the UNESCO and UN levels. As the General Director of the ...
Evolution questions to be answered
Ichthyologists will use recorders to search for fish in the ancient lakes of Chukotka. The attention focus of scientists of the Kronotsky Reserve is several lakes of Kamchatka, in each of which, during last year's expeditions, they discovered previously not described and not studied complexes ...