News tagged with siberia
Japan, Russia see chance to clone mammoth
Scientists from Japan and Russia believe it may be possible to clone a mammoth after finding well-preserved bone marrow in a thigh bone recovered from permafrost soil in Siberia, a report said Saturday.
Dec 04, 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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Research team claims to have found evidence Lake Cheko is impact crater for Tunguska Event
(Phys.org) -- Early on the morning of June 30th, 1908, a huge explosion occurred in a remote part of Siberia near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River. So great was the blast that trees were knocked down in neat ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 21, 2012 |
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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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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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Thawing tundra a new climate threat
(PhysOrg.com) -- A significant source of greenhouse gases has started leaking into the Earth's atmosphere from an unlikely place. Above the Arctic Circle, land frozen for tens of thousands of years has begun ...
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Arctic ice cap near 2007 record minimum: Russia
The polar ice cap in the Arctic has melted to near its 2007 record minimum level and in some areas is 50 percent smaller than average, Russia's environmental monitoring agency said Thursday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 04, 2011 |
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Was that Santa up there? No, Soyuz rocket debris
A ball of light streaking across the night sky in northern Europe on Saturday at a time when many imagined that Father Christmas was doing his rounds was nothing more than Soyuz rocket debris, Belgian experts ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 25, 2011 |
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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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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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Well preserved mammoth from Siberia shows signs of early man stealing from lions
(PhysOrg.com) -- An exceedingly well preserved juvenile mammoth carcass has been found in Siberia near the Arctic Ocean and it shows signs of having been attacked by a cave lion and then partially butchered ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 05, 2012 |
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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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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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Russian spaceship crashes back to Earth (Update 3)
An unmanned Russian spaceship with tonnes of cargo for the International Space Station crashed into Siberia shortly after blast-off Wednesday in the latest blow to the country's embattled space programme.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 24, 2011 |
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Russia blames 'chance' defect for space crash
Russia on Friday blamed a one-off production fault in a rocket engine for the crash of an unmanned spaceship last month but nevertheless ordered checks of all similar rocket motors.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 09, 2011 |
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