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#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Stanislav Seleznev, vice president for environment and industrial policy at Nornickel, spoke about the status of the company's environmental projects and the reduction of sulfur dioxide emissions in 2021. In total, the company has planned more than a hundred environmental strategy activities related to ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. More than 20 days have passed since the moment when the polar bear cubs from Yamal were taken away from the shift workers’ base for the second time by helicopter. During the time, the ‘homeless children’ traveled 350 kilometers. This was told by the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Every year on February 17, Russia celebrates the Wild Reindeer Day. The date of the ecological holiday is not accidental: on this day in 2015, wild reindeer were included in the Red Book of the Arhangelsk region, and in 2020 they were included in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A few years ago, the Siberia inhabitants defied the cold and launched the Dubak (severe frost) Challenge on the Instagram social network. Its essence is to throw a container of hot water over your head. As a result, a bewitching pattern is formed in ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Pasvik visitor center was opened five years ago, on January 17, 2017, in the Ecology Year in Russia. During this time, more than ten thousand people visited it, more than a thousand events took place there, about 400 of which were with the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The autonomous non-commercial organization Territoriya Putorana was among the winners of the World of New Opportunities the Nornickel company’s social project competition. It received a grant of more than 1.7 million rubles to implement its ideas. As a reminder, Nornickel has announced the winners of ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the Taimyr Museum of Local Lore for preschoolers and elementary school students, the Meeting the Sun Festival is held. Museum scientists tell young northerners about the holiday and the traditions of meeting the sun after a long polar night. Children participate in games where ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Russian Academy of Sciences’ Siberian Branch’s (SB RAS) Institute of Biophysics scientists have proposed a way to restore the ecosystems of Arctic lakes, which have been subjected to industrial pollution for decades, using guanotrophication. This method of applying natural fertilizer obtained from birds was ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. It is not known for sure whether there was a worldwide flood described in the Bible and the Mesopotamia myths. However, modern scientists are increasingly concerned about the possibility of the natural disaster coming back if the climate in the Arctic changes. Rambler tells that ...