Nature

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Zoologists from the Laverov Federal Research Center for Comprehensive Study of the Arctic have found a population of relict Arctic leeches in the lakes of Altai for the first time. At the same time, Hyperboreomyzon Polaris became the first leech species with an arctic-alpine ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Krasnoyarsk region’s minister of ecology Vladimir Chasovitin delivered a report on the environmental situation in the region to the Krasnoyarsk region’s Legislative Assembly deputies. In his speech, the chief regional ecologist paid special attention to the environmental situation in Norilsk. Thanks to Nornickel’s ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Great cormorants are developing more and more territories of Krasnoyarsk region, the birds populate the hydroelectric power stations reservoirs’ banks along the Yenisey and Angara and move further north. The expansion of the range and the growth of the number of these birds threaten ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Global warming has caused the Earth’s hydrological cycle to accelerate and make it irregular and unpredictable. This was stated by Andreia Celeste Saulo, secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The WMO’s annual State of Global Water Resources report states that 2023 turned out to ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The number of bison living on Earth can be greatly increased by 2080 if new populations are created in the North, where climatic conditions will be favorable for the settlement of these animals, scientists from St. Petersburg state university and the Vologda scientific center ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Having studied mosquitoes living in the Novosibirsk region, specialists from the Vector virology center discovered about 30 new viruses. The center’s deputy director Valery Loktev reported about this. “Yes, indeed, our mosquitoes carry a whole package of new viruses”, TASS quotes him as saying. The center’s ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At the end of August 2022, a polar bear with serious injuries came to the village of Dikson. For treatment, he was first taken to Norilsk, and then transported to the Moscow zoo. Doctors found entry holes of different diameters on the animal’s body. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists from the Siberian Federal University (SFU) and the Taimyr Nature Reserves have discovered that the population of one of the most ancient animal species of the Russian North, the musk ox, is being revived in the western part of the peninsula. The press service ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A scientific and educational laboratory for climate monitoring, the carbon testing ground, has opened in a birch grove near the campus of the Siberian Federal University. It will be one of the first one in Russia to study the flow of greenhouse gases in ...