MBL researcher and science teacher visit Siberia to study climate, excite children about science
WOODS HOLE, MA--Thanks to MBL Ecosystems Center scientist Max Holmes and Vermont schoolteacher Amy Clapp, a whole new crop of scientists is budding in Salisbury, Vermont. Holmes and Clapp are leaving for Siberia on May 21 on a double-edged mission: to conduct two weeks of important MBL climate-related research on the Lena River and to share their scientific adventures with Clapp's fourth, fifth,...UF study: Barren Siberia, of all places, may be original home to animal life
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Trilobites, the primitive shelled creatures considered by many to be among the first animals to appear in the fossil record, may have originated in a place known today largely for its barren lifelessness: Siberia. ... The finding is one of the conclusions of a two year study by geologists at the University of Florida and University of Kansas that is scheduled to appear next...Siberian tiger rescued from poacher's snare
(MARCH 9, 2004) Scientists from the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society and other groups working in the Russian Far East released a Siberian tiger last week, after rescuing it from a snare set out by poachers. ...The eight-to-10-year-old male tiger, estimated to weigh almost 400 pounds, was discovered by two Russian students hiking in the woods after they heard it roaring in distress....First-ever photo of wild Siberian tiger taken in China
... ... ......NEW YORK (Feb. 6) -- A remote camera clicked the first known photograph of a wild Siberian or Amur tiger in northern China last week, providing strong evidence that tigers are crossing from the Russian Far East to repopulate previous tiger strongholds, the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today. ...The tiger was photographed in Jilin Province's Hunchun...China to declare new reserve for Siberian tigers
......NEW YORK With assistance from the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the Chinese government will create a new protected area along its border with Russia in order to safeguard the nations remaining population of endangered Siberian (Amur) tigers and Far Eastern leopards. ... The agreement by Chinas Jilin Forestry Department to establish the Jilin Hunchun nature reserve i...Could Minnesota forestry save the Siberian tiger?
.St. Paul, Minn. Siberian foresters think so. Four foresters from the Russian Far East will visit Minnesota April 30 May 4 to find out if forestry practices in Minnesota provide a key to the tigers survival. On a field tour sponsored by the US Agency for International Development and assisted by the USDA Forest Service, foresters will observe the successful regeneration of eastern white pine....Sleeping on the permafrost and drilling for ice doesn't sound like the ideal way.to spend your summer.. .It's remote, it's cold, and the very name carries unpleasant memories of prison.camps. But it's also an ideal place to look for life-forms that have learned.survival tricks that might be in use on the permafrost and polar caps of Mars,.Europa, Callisto and other icy moons of the solar system....RICHLAND, Wash. -- Though the Cold War has ended, its legacy lives on in.Russia's West Siberian Basin as radioactive waste from nuclear weapons material production travels in.the groundwater and may be threatening the health of humans and the ecosystem there. . Fifty.years ago, Russian scientists began discharging this liquid radioactive waste into nearby rivers and.open reservoirs. About a d...