Nature

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Norilsk photographer and tundra connoisseur Olga Alexandrova travels a lot. In her photo portfolio - plants, animals, birds: all the most important things that make up the essence of the local flora and fauna. Now in the tundra is the season of Siberian globeflower, or ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This week, a helicopter with a valuable cargo of nelma fry flew to lake Melkoe twice. The Norilsk fish hatchery has raised and released into the natural habitat about ten thousand fish of the salmon family. Nelma juveniles were reared at the fish hatchery ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Communities of bacteria, mosses and lichens in Arctic and Antarctic soils typically absorb methane released from permafrost by climate change. However, as the humidity in Antarctica rises, these communities stop processing the greenhouse gas and start releasing it. The study was carried out by ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Varlam island hosted an off-site meeting of representatives of Pasvik nature reserve, the Ministry of Natural Resources, Ecology and Fisheries of the Murmansk region, the Kola Mining and Metallurgical combine (KMMC) and the Pechenga district administration. The topic of discussion was the project to ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Another batch of fry was released into the Yenisey by Norilsk fish farmers with the participation of JSC Norilsktransgaz and other city enterprises. Gas workers annually carry out measures to preserve and replenish the stocks of aquatic biological resources to minimize the negative ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In Taimyr, 14 wild reindeer were tagged with satellite collars, another 11 will get beacons until the end of June. To carry out this work, the Krasnoyarsk region ecology ministry and the Siberian Federal University signed a contract, the Krasnoyarsk region government’s official portal ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Russian Geographical Society plans to create a new movement The Arctic Volunteer in 2023. It will bring together experts and volunteers involved in the Arctic’s eco-cleaning. The movement meaning is to create a community of interested and competent people. According to Sergey Korlyhanov, the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Siberian Federal University scientists as part of an international scientific group studied how the variation of stable isotopes of oxygen, carbon and hydrogen in the coniferous trees’ annual rings in the subarctic regions changed over time. The information will allow to model climate forecasts ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This year, one can observe a beautiful and rare phenomenon in Taimyr - the flowering of the permafrost long-liver - Dahurian larch. These trees have adapted to the Arctic and, thanks to a powerful root system, can live up to 300-400 years. They bloom only ...