Nature

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Norilsk community members went to extinguish vegetation in tundra in the Red Stones’ area​​ in Talnah. The peat bog caught fire a few days ago there, and rescuers could not drive through the complex natural landscape to the fire site. The Green Patrol organization’s head’s ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The third Great Norilsk expedition has started. Two years ago, large-scale scientific research on the territory was started by scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences at the Nornickel’s initiative after an accidental fuel spill. 35 people from 14 scientific organizations from different cities (Novosibirsk, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Vegetation in the tundra is on fire in Talnah, not far from Red Stones. Eyewitnesses say that smoldering had been happening since Sunday. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Krasnoyarsk Territory said that firefighters had gone to a ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company’s (NTEK) specialists and the Nornickel Polar Division’s Territory improvement company continue round-the-clock work on land reclamation at the Ambarnaya river’s mouth after a fuel spill in May 2020. 45 people work at the site, 20 pieces of equipment are involved: three ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The settlement agreement between the Yenisei Territorial Administration of the Federal Agency for Fishery (Rosrybolovstvo) and the Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company (NTEK) was approved by the Arbitration Court of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. NTEK supported the Rosrybolovstvo’s head Ilya Shestakov’s initiative in September 2021, who proposed the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A polar bear in whose mouth a can of condensed milk was stuck came to the Dixon village inhabitants for help. The village head, Nikolay Burak, said that the locals tried to get the jar, but failed. The Rosprirodnadzor (the Russian federal nature preserving service) ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Treating wheat seeds with a permafrost bacteria suspension can increase winter yields by 30 percent. In addition, the fungal infection level in the first-generation wheat’s grain is significantly reduced. Such conclusions were made by scientists of the Tyumen State University (TSU). “There are phytopathogens that ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It seems that the North and South Poles are very similar to each other: the sun is always low above the horizon, it does not rise for months during winter, and the ice reflects most of its light. However, there are significant differences in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. People sleep an average of 44 hours less per year due to global temperatures’ changes. This is reported by the New Atlas publication with reference to the largest foreign scientists’ research. Scientists researched seven million sleep records from special bracelets of 47,000 adults from 68 ...