Meteorologist Uses Siberia’s Snow Cover to Forecast Severity of U.S. Winters With 75% Accuracy As winter sets in in the northern hemisphere, meteorologists are looking to the vast, snow-covered expanses of Siberia to forecast the upcoming winter in the United States. Judah Cohen, a meteorologist with Atmospheric and Environmental Research, has been pioneering a method that correlates October’s snow cover in Siberia with the severity of winter weather in the central and eastern U.S., […] Weather WeatherBrains | November 4, 2023 0 Comments
Scientists Revive and Breed a 46,000 Year Old Worm Frozen in the Siberian Permafrost Scientists have successfully revived a 46,000-year-old nematode found in the Siberian permafrost, breaking the previous record of a few decades for a similar event. The female microscopic roundworm, a new species named Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, began reproducing after reanimation. This case highlights the phenomenon of cryptobiosis, like hitting the pause button on life (think Han Solo in the original Star Wars […] Brains SnowBrains | July 31, 2023 0 Comments
NASA: Wildfire Smoke Over Siberia During the first week of July, NASA satellites began detecting signs that several wildland fires were burning in Russia’s far east. Two weeks later, several fires had grown much larger and more intense, creating rivers of smoke that flowed over parts of Khabarovsk and the neighboring Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite […] Fire Firebrains | July 19, 2022 0 Comments
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2 Well-Preserved Cave Lion Cubs From Ice Age Discovered in Russia According to CBS News, two cave lion cubs from the last ice age were recently discovered in Russia. These cubs were so well preserved that they still had their fur, whiskers, and teeth intact. These lion cubs were frozen in the Siberian permafrost, which allowed them to remain in exceptional condition. Related: Microplastics Found in Snow in Siberia, Russia Swedish […] Brains Breya Bergom | August 11, 2021 0 Comments
Microplastics Found in Snow in Siberia, Russia Researchers recently found microplastic pollution in Siberia, one of the world’s most remote areas. These recent findings are another example of human pollution permeating the environment. Related: USGS Report: “It’s Raining Plastic”: Microplastics in the Mountains? At Tomsk State University, researchers found airborne plastic fibers in snow samples taken from twenty different Siberian regions. Snow sampled from the Altai Mountains, […] Brains Alex Mangels | March 25, 2021 0 Comments
Thawing Permafrost Could Trigger New Pandemic In the middle of a global pandemic, what else could possibly go wrong? Well, another pandemic. Except this new one could be triggered by bacteria revived from thawing permafrost in the Arctic. Wait back up, is this for real? Sadly yes. During a major skillshare meeting last November in Hannover, Germany, scientists discussed the threat of microbes revived by the […] Industry News Gabrielle Gasser | July 9, 2020 0 Comments
Scientists Researching How Arctic Plant Was Brought Back To Life After 32,000 Years [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHYGchvcytc&feature=emb_title"] Sebastian Opazo | July 3, 2020 Likes Tweets 1 Comment