Nature

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists of the Siberian Federal University (SFU) Polytechnic Institute’s Heat Engineering and Fluid Gas Dynamics department, in cooperation with specialists from the Tomsk Polytechnic University, conducted joint studies of the combustion processes of brown coal and biomass. The development will help to solve two ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. You can now get acquainted with the Deer Land scientific project activities at oleniykray.ru. The project was formed at the intersection of two separate studies - Characterization of the Domestic Reindeer Nenets Breed’s Taimyr Population Genetic Diversity Based on Microsatellite Analysis and The Norilsk Industrial ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. 12 lowland bisons from Denmark were brought to the north of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District to the Ingilorsky natural park - scientists hope that the animals will take on the role of mammoths that died out 11 thousand years ago and help restore the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Researchers from the Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Branch’s Central Siberian Botanical Garden together with scientists from China, France and the United States, are studying the evolution of flora in the Arctic. They believe that plants at high latitudes appeared earlier than previously thought. Scientists ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Norilsk photographer Mikhail Podolyak conveyed the magnificence of the summer tundra in his photographs. He told the This Is Taimyr where he managed to capture the colorful landscapes. One of the picturesque places at an accessible distance from Norilsk is located 70 km from the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Based on satellite images, Canadian scientists have concluded that oases with thicker and higher vegetation appear around the burrows of Arctic foxes rather than in the rest of the tundra. Animals fertilize and loosen the soil. Researchers noticed such areas for a long time ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Summer continues to delight the northerners with the weather and its gifts. In the August calendar of nature, berry pickers put cloudberries at the forefront. Connoisseurs are sure: everything else can wait, but it can't. Household Norilsk residents have already stocked up on rhubarb, dried ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Researchers have found five new species and one new genus of leeches in Arctic waters - the work of scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences Ural Branch’s Federal Research Center for Comprehensive Study of the Arctic and St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU) took ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Specialists from the Pasvik National Park have filed a claim for compensation of 47 million Norwegian krones - the amount, according to experts, the “illegal” reindeer from Norway ate reindeer moss in the Murmansk region. Forty individuals made their way to the Russian part of ...