The Quest to Resurrect a Lost Ecosystem in Siberia
The Quest to Resurrect a Lost Ecosystem in Siberia. A father-and-son team of scientists are trying to revive ancient grasslands by reintroducing large grazers.
View Article"Snow is like the cosmos itself."
Siberia-based photgrapher Roma Gostev captures the snow-coated serenity of his city Nizhnevartovsk More contemporary photography from Siberia: Meet the photographic talent that call Siberia home | Part...
View ArticleHow I Grew Up in the Coldest Town on Earth
I grew up in Yakutia, Siberia, where the temperature goes down to -71C/-96F [slYT]
View Article"We are all Martians"
Natalija Majsova (06/09/2020, Strelka Mag; also in a video lecture for the Canadian Centre for Architecture), "Soviet Sci-Fi Film and Different Modalities of Future Ecosystems": "Irina Povolotskaia's...
View Article"There was another reason to be so anxious."
Miyamoto Yuriko, "The Breast" (1935): "The streetcar struggle had begun in September, and this day care participated in support activities, so ever since the veteran Sawazaki Kin was hauled off,...
View Articlemight have been a very late ice-age wolf
Doggone it! How an 18,000-year-old puppy could change everything we know about dogs [The Guardian] Name: Dogor. Appearance: Sharp teeth, soft nose, fluffy all over, cute as hell. Age: 18,000 years and...
View ArticleMammoth tusk gold rush
The climate crisis has sparked a Siberian mammoth tusk gold rush."The Arctic permafrost is thawing, revealing millions of buried mammoth skeletons. But the rush for mammoth ivory could put elephants in...
View ArticleSmall, fluffy and very discreet
One day Vadim Kirilyuk, director of the Daursky Biosphere Reserve in Russia, found a manul kitten in a rusty train carriage. The kitten had been abandoned by its mother, so he did the only right thing...
View Article"A horse is a horse, of course, of course,"
The foal that came in from the cold after 40,000 years [The Siberian Times]"This is the firstpictureof anancient foal dug out of the permafrost in the Batagai depression - also known as the 'Mouth of...
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Sounds of Siberia - "How Novosibirsk's Shalash record label created a beautiful audio world"Seven Sleepers by you c and ForesteppekifaruSun Suites For a Rising MoonPt. 1Small Hours by Kirill Mazhai,...
View ArticleSiberia Siberian Cats
A farm for Siberian cats, with them floofed out against the snow. Photographs by the farm owner. Magnificent beasties.
View ArticleRefugees Are Welcome Here
The Story of Seven-Hundred Polish Children(1966) (18'05, Black & White)This 1966 documentary tells the story of 733 Polish children who were adopted by New Zealand in 1944 as WWII refugees. Moving...
View ArticleA Mongol without a horse is like a bird without the wings
Horse culture in Mongolia is extensive, but much of its history is not well known. Take, for example, the intricately carved deer stone pillars that are often accompanied by horse skulls and few other...
View Articlediamonds are forever?
The Nearly Mile-Wide Diamond Mine That Helped Build the Soviet Union. The Mirny Mine [previously] is so large it creates its own microclimate, and Mirny is/was pretty much a company town. Pictures of...
View ArticleLetter from Siberia
Through sands and mountains in search of a gulag ghost town: "We all know what Siberia means. It means Lake Baikal and the Altai Mountains. It means bears, long winters and vast expanses of taiga. All...
View ArticleAt times they sounded like villains from a Michael Crichton novel.
Two Russian scientists are fighting to save the earth from climate change by restoring the Pleistocene grasslands in the Siberian Arctic. This includes re-establishing herds of bison, musk oxen, wild...
View ArticleIn the autumn they issued a sack of potatoes per person
Frozen Dreams: Russia's Arctic obsession (16 min.) is a Financial Times video feature about Russian Federation preparations to take advantage of the Northern Sea Route opening up along its Arctic...
View ArticleThe Mammoth Pirates
In Russia's Arctic north, a new kind of gold rush is under way: With the sale of elephant tusks under close scrutiny, "ethical ivory" from the extinct woolly mammoth is now feeding an insatiable market...
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