News tagged with siberia
Russia may lose 30% of permafrost by 2050
Russia's vast permafrost areas may shrink by a third by the middle of the century due to global warming, endangering infrastructure in the Arctic zone, an emergencies ministry official said Friday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 29, 2011 |
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Northern Eurasian snowpack could be a predictor of winter weather in US
Every winter, weather forecasters talk about the snow cover in the northern U.S. and into Canada as a factor in how deep the deep-freeze will be in the states. A new study by researchers at the University of Georgia indicates ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 24, 2011 |
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Russia battles fires in Siberia, Far East
Russia is battling wildfires spreading across Siberia and the Far East, with officials scrambling to prevent a disastrous repeat of last year's deadly blazes, the emergencies ministry said on Monday.
May 23, 2011 |
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Fossil finger bone yields genome of a previously unknown human relative (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A 30,000-year-old finger bone found in a cave in southern Siberia came from a young girl who was neither an early modern human nor a Neanderthal, but belonged to a previously unknown group ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 22, 2010 |
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One scientist's hobby: recreating the ice age
(AP) -- Wild horses have returned to northern Siberia. So have musk oxen, hairy beasts that once shared this icy land with woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Moose and reindeer are here, and may one ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2010 |
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Man-made global warming started with ancient hunters: study
Even before the dawn of agriculture, people may have caused the planet to warm up, a new study suggests.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 30, 2010 |
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Near miss, but no threat: Asteroid in close pass was smaller than thought, astronomer shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- On March 2, an asteroid whizzed past the Earth at a distance of just 41,000 miles -- a near miss by cosmic standards (most communications satellites orbit at a distance of about 22,300 miles from Earth). ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Space rock gives Earth a close shave
An asteroid of a similar size to a rock that exploded above Siberia in 1908 with the force of a thousand atomic bombs whizzed close past Earth on Monday, astronomers said on Tuesday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 03, 2009 |
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