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Russian scientists germinate ice-age seed

Print Tuesday, 21 February 2012 10:14 Written by CBC News


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The flower the scientists grew from the ancient seed is similar to the chickweed flower, or Silene stenophylla. However, there are some differences in petal shape and size. (The Institute of Cell Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Chickweed plant seeds found in ancient frozen squirrel nest

Scientists in Russia have made a major breakthrough in permafrost research.

The team, whose work is based in Siberia, successfully germinated a flower from an ice-age seed which is about 32,000 years old.

The scientists found an ancient frozen nest of Arctic ground squirrels 30 metres underground. They took some of the seeds they found in that nest and brought them back to a lab.

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Russian rivers freshening the water of Alaska's Beaufort Sea

Print Wednesday, 18 January 2012 11:12 Written by Doug O'Harra, Alaska Dispatch


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Increasing freshwater on the U.S. and Canadian side of the Arctic is balanced by decreasing freshwater on the Russian side. Blue represents maximum freshwater increases and yellows and oranges represent maximum freshwater decreases. Graphic courtesy: University of Washington. Alaska Dispatch.
Fresh water sloshing into the polar sea from the great rivers of Russia has been collecting on the Alaskan and Canadian side of the Arctic, adding the equivalent of 10 feet of freshwater to the central Beaufort Sea between 2003 and 2008, according to a new study published this month in Nature.

The ocean northeast of Alaska is now the freshest it's been in 50 years, the scientists said, but only a tiny proportion of that can be blamed on ice melt. Most of it can be traced to Eurasian river runoff, following a previously undetected pathway from one side of the world to the other.

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Some Russian environmental 'hot spots' removed from blacklist

Print Monday, 16 January 2012 11:11 Written by Eva Elke, Sámiradio, Sweden


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Factories in Monchegorsk, Russia. Photo: Eva Elke, Radio Sweden.
For the first time, three so-called "hot spots" (extremely polluted areas) have been removed from a list of 42 hot spots in northwest Russia.

This conclusion was reached in November, when Sweden handed over the chairmanship of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council to Finland. However, 39 extremely polluted areas remain on the list of hot spots, all in the Russian Barents region. Sameradion visited two of them in the Kola Peninsula: Monchegorsk and Murmansk.

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Record warm temperatures affecting indigenous reindeer herders in Arctic

Print Monday, 05 December 2011 11:18 Written by Sameradion, Sweden


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Reindeer in Lovozero, Russia. Warm winters in recent years have forced herders here in the far northern Kola Peninsula to delay for months the rounding up of their reindeer from the vast tundra -- at great economic cost. Photo: Alissa de Carbonnel, AFP.
Mild weather continued throughout the fall in the traditional Sami territories in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and northwestern Russia. This has been the warmest fall since the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) began recording temperatures. SMHI meteorologist Sverker Hällström reports that this fall has had primarily southerly and westerly winds.

Sameradion (Radio Sami) compared the temperatures of several locations in northern Sweden and Norway. In all locations, this fall's average temperature has been from three to eight degrees warmer than the normal average temperature.

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Russian Arctic Explorers Descend on Ice Floe

Print Friday, 15 October 2010 08:58 Written by Lada Korotun, Voice of Russia


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The Russian polar expedition has recently found a suitable floe for the SP-38 drifting station and has landed on it. The station is to begin its work on October 15.

The Rosssiya nuclear ice-breaker has brought hundreds of tons of supplies and equipment, which are now being unloaded on the 1,5 thousand square metres occupied by the station. Researchers will study the processes and factors affecting the climate change currently taking place in the central Arctic, and estimate their effect on the natural environment and ecosystems of the region, says the head of the Arctic expedition Nikolay Adamovich.

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