Nature

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This year there were a lot of interesting and unusual things in the area of the Pura biological hospital. As Larisa Stryuchkova, leading public relations specialist at the federal state budgetary institution Taimyr Nature Reserves, said, zoological observations and monitoring of soil conditions were ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The northern lights season continues in Norilsk. Local residents share pictures of the ‘solar wind’ on social networks and say that auroras are observed very often in Taimyr this fall. Famous Norilsk photographer Mikhail Podolyak also shared photographs of a successful hunt. The master says ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The only thing that doesn’t grow here is the king of mushrooms – the porcini mushroom. It is believed that there are no poisonous mushrooms in Taimyr. This is explained by the fact that there are no toxins in permafrost soil that poisonous mushrooms absorb. However, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Taimyr Reserves in 2024 will begin to clear the Putorana plateau from man-made debris left at the times when the territory was not yet specially protected. Waste remained, for example, on the lake Ayan shores after the Soviet geologists, geodesists, polar explorers’s expeditions and fishers. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. To replenish the Yenisey biological resources, the Siberian Production and Geological Association (PGA) of the Rosgeologiya holding released about ten thousand sterlet fry into the river. This year, the Siberian PGO is conducting prospecting and appraisal work for solid minerals in the Yenisey basin and ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In early September, a scientific expedition will set off from St. Petersburg to the Bear Islands archipelago, which will study the population of polar bears using drones, satellites and a neural network. Russian scientists are the first in the world to explore the Arctic ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Global measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will not keep the Earth's temperature rise below two degrees Celsius by 2050, more efforts are needed to do this, oil company Exxon Mobil says in an annual forecast. According to the forecast, to achieve the goals set ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Norilsk photographer and tundra connoisseur Olga Alexandrova, in one of her short trips around the city, caught an unexpected and successful shot - an owlet in cloudberries. The chick sat in a secluded place among the Taimyr berries. Now in Taimyr, it is just the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Harvesting valuable northern wild plants is a special time for the Norilsk people. The tundra blooms with bright colors in autumn - you can see red splashes of currants and lingonberries, gold cloudberries, blue-black crowberry (shiksha) with leaves that look like needles. The well-known Norilsk ...