climate change

Normalno in Debdirge

June 6, 2013

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Rain continued for two more days. More water has arrived. And even more was on its way. Is this a normal spring melt? Not so much. Underground fires that broke out two years ago and burnt vasts of taiga stripped the soil that was protecting the permafrost. Late autumn rains fell on the snow, and then early spring rains followed up. And now melting snow has filled the ground fissures and contributed to melting of the subterranean ancient ice. This is one of the reasons why we see today in Taatta exactly what we see. The big picture is: Yakutian permafrost is thawing. In the morning we could...

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Polar Explorer Day

April 6, 2013

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Yesterday we celebrated the first ever Polar Explorer Day - a new professional holiday in Russia. Whose day is that? Arthur Chilingarov explains: “Many think that the world’s community of polar explorers is a cozy club. A tiny one, with fancy membership cards. That’s not true. Firstly and most significantly, it is a community of Arctic people permanently living and working in the Far North. They are Arctic’s first and most important explorers – from Greenland to Siberia”. Two great explorers - one from Greenland and another one from Russia - said that they will unite  Arctic peoples. On...

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