Stunning reconstruction reveals warrior and his weapons from 4,000-year-old burial in #Siberia https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/stunning-reconstruction-reveals-warrior-and-his-weapons-from-4-000-year-old-burial-in-siberia
New preprint out! 
Using combined paleo-ecological and modeling methods, we uncover regional Holocene #wildfire dynamics in eastern #Siberia. Notably, our findings suggest potential human impacts as early as 5000 years ago - contrasting a common view of historically unmanaged forests 
So far, any historical human impacts on fire regimes or traditional land use practices with relevance for wildfire were poorly acknowledged in international literature for eastern Siberia - despite clear indications from Indigenous communities, and former visitors leaving us with clear hints: For example, Georg W. Steller describes in the early 1700s his observation of common burning in forests near the Lena River. And in 1913, Fridtjof Nansen writes in his expedition notes about a long-standing habit of the Natives to burn old grasses near the Amur River. There is more to this 
According to our study, fuel availability seems to be a key factor here. We discuss by example of the #Sakha how people may have reduced wildfire severity around their settlements since c. 800 years ago.
Find the preprint here:
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.14.643308
Photo taken in #Yakutia, August 2021.
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
"This Russian Family Lived Alone in the Siberian Wilderness for 40 Years, Unaware of World War II or the Moon Landing
In 1978, Soviet geologists stumbled upon a family of five in the taiga. They had been cut off from almost all human contact since fleeing religious persecution in 1936"
In 1977, the Siberian permafrost gave up one of its most astonishing secrets—a perfectly preserved baby #mammoth frozen in time.
Unearthed by a miner's bulldozer and named "Dima" after a nearby stream, this tiny giant lived and died 40,000 years ago during the Ice Age. At just 6–8 months old, Dima’s remains were so intact that even traces of his mother’s milk were found in his stomach—a haunting echo of a vanished world. #Siberia
Fire Weather
The California wildfires replicate the fire storms in the boreal forest in Canada & Siberia.
Climate scientists repeatedly warned that they would inevitably move southwards as rising global temperatures created hotter, more fire-prone landscapes. Now they have.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/fire-weather
#CalifornianWildfires #ClimateCatastrophe #USPol #US #Canada #Siberia .
Happy to see this great new study on future #boreal tree cover changes!
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2404391121
#Paleoecology offers a complementary perspective: We previously found that open woodlands in E-Siberia during the Early Holocene coincided with higher #wildfire activity, proposing a potential future "open woodland-fire feedback"
Reconstructing past wildfires and vegetation coverage furthermore led us to hypothesize that present-day, dense larch forests may still mediate the full extent of climate-driven fire regime intensification in this region. You can find our #paleofire study from #Siberia here:
https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.962906
@paleofire @wildfirescience @ecology #charcoal #pollen #FireEcology
Fire Weather
The California wildfires replicate the fire storms in the boreal forest in Canada & Siberia.
Climate scientists repeatedly warned that they would inevitably move southwards as rising global temperatures created hotter, more fire-prone landscapes. Now they have.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/fire-weather
#CalifornianWildfires #ClimateCatastrophe #USPol #US #Canada #Siberia .
Fire Weather
The California wildfires replicate the fire storms in the boreal forest in Canada & Siberia.
Climate scientists repeatedly warned that they would inevitably move southwards as rising global temperatures created hotter, more fire-prone landscapes. Now they have.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/fire-weather
#CalifornianWildfires #ClimateCatastrophe #USPol #US #Canada #Siberia .
#NewSpecies!
New sea snail from #siberia just crawled in:
Aporrhais siberica
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/39138C61-48DE-5D0F-BCD8-65EF49BACAEF
Publication: http://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.98.129065
#zitteliana #AporrhaisSiberica
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #malacology #snails #seasnails
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #173: Yakutsk, Siberia.
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#brr #yakutsk #siberia #russia #arctic #places #geography #science #cold #didyouknow #funfacts #wtf #strangebuttrue #trivia #comics #comic #webcomics #webcomic #humanityfuckyeah #hfy #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Vado a riprendermi la Siberiaaaaaa
oggi sono Diaframma nostalgico 
Diaframma - Siberia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKEUnjgoGK0
Buongiorno ragaaaaazze
The discovery of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth in Siberia is a big boon to researchers.
From NBC News: "The remains were found with no damage to the head, trunk, ears and mouth, according to" researchers.
Arctic Siberia’s Climate Insights from the Last Interglacial
A recent study published in the journal Climate of the Past reveals that Arctic Siberia experienced summer temperatures up to 10 degrees Celsius warmer than today’s averages during the Last Interglacial period, approximately 115,000 to 130,000 years ago
https://observervoice.com/arctic-siberias-climate-insights-from-the-last-interglacial-83401/
#Arctic #Siberia #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #environment #climate
The Famous Bering Land Bridge Was More Like a Swamp https://gizmodo.com/the-famous-bering-land-bridge-was-more-like-a-swamp-geologists-say-2000539043
"#Geologists suggest that between 36,000 and 11,000 years ago, the #BeringLandBridge between modern-day #Siberia and #Alaska may have been less an arid steppe #grassland and more a boggy #ecosystem crisscrossed by rivers. This complicates #scientists’ understanding of the landmass and how its #landscape would have facilitated or impeded the spread of different species"
