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Sep202020 by adminNo Comments

Siberia landscape scarred by climate change

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Scientists are warning that, across Siberia, vast swathes of ground - normally frozen all year round - are thawing - with potentially devastating consequences for the climate. As it thaws, the earth is believed to be releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gases, accentuating the problem of global warming. BBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has been to the remote Yakutia region to look at how thawing permafrost is affecting not just the climate, but the landscape and livelihoods in Siberia..css-po6dm6-ItalicText{font-style:italic;}Producer: Will VernonCamera/edit: Matthew GoddardLet's block ads! (Why?) BBC News - Science & Environment

Jun52020 by adminNo Comments

Russia declares state of emergency in Siberia after power plant spills 20,000 tons of oil

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June 4 (UPI) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a state of emergency for a region in northern Siberia after oil spilled from a power plant into a river. A fuel tank at the plant in Norilsk ruptured on Friday, leaking 20,000 tons of diesel fuel into the nearby Ambarnaya River, contaminating portions of the waterway as far as 7 miles away from the site. Advertisement The plant's parent company, Norilsk Nickel, said it believes thawing permafrost caused one of the tank's pillars to collapse. Permafrost thawing is linked to climate change and has caused issues including damage to roads and homes as well as disruptions to herding and agriculture throughout Siberia. Greenpeace Russia issued a statement describing the incident as the largest oil spill in the history of the Russian Arct...

Jun52019 by adminNo Comments

Milk teeth reveal previously uknown Ice Age people from Siberia

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June 5 (UPI) -- Siberia has been inhabited by humans for some 40,000 years, and new genomic analysis made possible by the recovery of ancient baby teeth is shedding light on the ancient humans who lived there. For the new study, published this week in the journal Nature Communications, researchers analyzed DNA samples from 34 individuals recovered from Russia's Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site, an archaeological site in northeastern Siberia. The oldest human remains, two children's baby teeth, were dated to 31,000 years ago up. Scientists also analyzed DNA from the 10,000-year-old remains of a young man. The analysis suggests the ancient people of northern Siberia endured extreme cold and survived by hunting woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses and bison. "These people were a significant part o...

Nov272018 by adminNo Comments

DNA analysis suggests people migrated from Siberia to Finland 3,500 years ago

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Nov. 27 (UPI) -- For the first time, scientists have used genetic analysis to confirm the link between Finland and Siberia. The research showed Siberian ancestry migrated from Russia's Kola Peninsula to Finland several thousand years ago. Scientists confirmed the link by comparing DNA from 3,500-year-old bones and teeth recovered from Bolshoy Oleny Island, located along the Kola Peninsula, to DNA from remains excavated from a 1,500-year-old water burial in Finland. The findings -- published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications -- offered new insights into the genetic origins of early Finnish settlers. "Our analyses show that Siberian ancestry entered the Bolshoy population around 4,000 years ago," Thiseas Christos Lamnidis, researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Science o...