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Arctic birds can help fertilize Taimyr lakes
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In Taimyr, the first stage of an expedition to collect data to study the possibility of restoring water quality and increasing the Arctic lakes productivity by guanotrophication has been completed. Recall that in November 2021, RAS corresponding member, the RAS SB Biophysical Physics Institute’s Experimental ...
First snow covered Norilsk mountains
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It is snowing in Norilsk today - the first time after a short northern summer. Due to the plus air temperature, large flakes of snow do not settle to the ground. But the Norilsk people are watching the mountains’ snow caps. Nobody knows whether the ...
Dikson bear got multiple gunshot wounds
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The bear rescued from Dikson island turned out to be not a female, as they thought at first, but a male. Doctors assess his condition as serious but stable. This was announced by the Moscow Zoo general director Svetlana Akulova. “Our victim turned out to ...
Wounded polar bear being saved in Taimyr
ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The circumstances under which the animal got wounded are being investigated by law enforcement and supervisory authorities. According to preliminary data, the bear showed up in the village of Dikson on the Taimyr peninsula two weeks ago. The owners of the Arctic are not ...
King crab habitat increases due to warming in Arctic
ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Climate change in the Arctic, observed in recent decades, will affect the red king crab population. This was stated by scientists from the Murmansk Marine Biological Institute (MMBI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences following a study published in the international publication Water. According to ...
Black storks photographed in Krasnoyarsk national park
ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Shushensky Bor national park employees for the first time has taken photographs of the Red Book black stork. At first they saw one bird, and a few days later they captured a group of 15 storks. For the territory of Shushensky pine forest, this ...
Polar lights season starts in Norilsk
ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Norilsk photographer Sergey Dokukin captured the summer northern lights. Green rays painted the still bright sky of our city - the period of twilight nights continues in the Arctic. “The aurora season opened tonight. The sky is still bright, but something is already visible. I ...
Arctic foxes in Finnish Lapland give birth first time in 26 years
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In northern Finland, in the Lapland province, scientists have recorded the birth of fox puppies for the first time since 1996. Three cubs were born on the hill of Enontekiyo. The last time scientists saw fox puppies was 26 years ago in Utsyoki. The country’s ...
Scientists collected material for film about Taimyr
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Taimyr Reserves directorate’s scientists have completed the field season of the complex Pyasinsky expedition in ornithology and hydrobiology. According to Stanislav Stryuchkov, the Taimyr Reserves directorate PR-manager, ornithologists have recently returned to Norilsk. Research was carried out in various scientific disciplines. “21 water samples were ...