Nature
Norilsk resident showed Taimyr meadows in social networks
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Fascinated by the photography art, Mikhail Podolyak from time to time gives his subscribers and friends simple and amazing evidence that Taimyr is one of the most beautiful places on the planet. From his landscape photographs, it is often difficult to imagine that the area ...
July 2023 was hottest in 120 000 years
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Experts from the Copernicus climate change service believe that July 2023 was the hottest in the last 120 000 years. The data are obtained from tree cuts ring studies, coral reefs, and deep sea sediment samples. Dr. Carsten Hausstein, a climatologist from the University of ...
Duck family brings City lake to life
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. City lake, which has recently become popular with large landscaping projects, has come to life and acquired its own inhabitants. A whole brood of ducklings with a duck mother appeared here. When and where they came from, no one can say for sure. However, it ...
Taimyr reindeer change migration routes
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists from the Siberian Federal University, together with the Ministry of Ecology and Rational Nature Management of the Krasnoyarsk region, are monitoring the migration of wild reindeer in Taimyr in places where animals traditionally gather in summer. “We conduct all observations online. For these purposes, ...
Rare aboriginal reindeer spotted in Russian Arctic national park
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For the first time this year, a group of a unique Novaya Zemlya subspecies of wild reindeer, which is listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation, was photographed in the Russian Arctic national park. Previously, scientists believed for a long time that the ...
Norilsk schoolchildren won trip to Bear Islands reserve
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Brother and sister Nikolaev from Norilsk, eighth-grader Vera, and ninth-grade student Grigory, became winners of the Amazing and Unexplored Arctic All-Russian competition. The main prize in the scientific contest is a trip to the Bear Islands nature reserve. There, schoolchildren will take part in aerial ...
Norilo-Pyasinsky water system large-scale studies start
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company (NTEC) and the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) have launched a fisheries research program in the Norilo-Pyasinsky water system. This is the first stage of large-scale long-term work, including the aquatic biological resources and their habitat state ...
Permafrost studied in Taimyr tundra
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A field summer research school for the permafrost study started in Norilsk on July 1. The project includes trips. First, Polar State University (PSU) students visited the Zvenigorod Biological Station of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov (MSU), and this summer Muscovites came to ...
Putoransky Reserve considered most inaccessible place in Russia
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Roslesinforg (all-Russian organization specializing in the integrated solution of forest accounting problems) compiled a list of the most inaccessible and mysterious places in Russia, where only taxators managed to get, in order to count the trees, assess their health, age, suitability for use, and ...