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Tag: siberia
Siberia will lose all its tundra by the year 2500 unless emissions are curtailed fast
Once this unique ecosystem is gone, we won't be able to bring it back.
Heatwaves in Siberia are now releasing methane trapped in the rocks
Potent greenhouse gas is leaking from rock formations
Perfectly preserved Ice Age ‘cave bear’ remains found in New Siberian Islands
A warmer world could lead to more discoveries in the near future
Siberian heatwave would have been almost impossible without climate change
Higher than usual temperatures have triggered forest fires and accelerated the melting of the permafrost
For Russia, it’s not all about coronavirus, as large parts of Siberia are on fire
High temperatures have combined with unauthorized agricultural fires to spawn massive blazes.
Perfectly preserved 40,000-year-old foal belonging to now-extinct horse found in Siberian Permafrost
The baby horse still has its fur coat and hoofs.
Two-thousand-year-old ‘Great Wall of Siberia’ discovered by archaeologists
The wall measured eight meters tall and ten meters wide.
Thousands of methane-filled bubbles are waiting to explode in Siberia
Some of the craters are 50 meters deep.
Unicorns might have been real, but they look nothing like in fairy tales
Russian paleontologists dated the fossil remains of a Elasmotherium sibiricum, a giant beast the size of a mammoth with a ...
Ancient giant virus will be revived by scientists
French scientists announced the discovery of Mollivirus sibericum in the US National Academy of Sciences journal this week. The "Siberian ...
Mysterious Siberian craters attributed to methane. Permafrost methane release might have begun
The "mysterious" craters in Siberia have actually been caused by methane seeping from the melting permafrost. No rockets, no meteorites, ...
A 30,000 year-old virus is active again after it thawed from Siberian permafrost
It sounds like the synopsis for an apocalyptic movie: scientists uncover a dormant 30,000 years old virus trapped frozen deep ...