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☆ Discovery of 50,000-year-old baby mammoth a big boon to researchers
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-24 | by ( Hannah Peart | Hannah Peart Is An Intern In The Nbc News London Bureau. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

A baby mammoth that lay almost perfectly preserved for 50,000 years in the now-melting permafrost of eastern Siberia has been unveiled by a team of scientists. The carcass of the baby mammoth, dubbed “Yana” after the Yana River basin where it was found in eastern Siberia, Russia, was unveiled by researchers on Monday. It was only the seventh baby mammoth carcass discovered globally — six in Russia and one in Canada. The mammoth is 4 feet tall, weighs about 400 pounds and is less than 6.6 feet long, according to the press release. Researchers Gavril Novgorodov and Erel Struchkov pose next to the remains of a baby mammoth discovered in June.

Persons: “, ”, Anatoly Nikolaev, “ Yana, Yana ”, Maxim Cheprasov, Yana, Cheprasov, Gavril Novgorodov, Erel Organizations: Lazarev Mammoth Museum, Eastern Federal University, Lazarev Mammoth Museum Laboratory, Russian Federation Locations: Siberia, Yakutsk, Russia, Canada, Bataga, Batagaika, Russian

☆ Baby mammoth found in Russian crater is the world’s ‘best’ preserved, says scientist
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-23 | by ( Adam Pourahmadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Russian scientists presented the carcass of a baby mammoth, whose incredibly well-preserved remains were found in the Siberian region of Yakutia in June after more than 50,000 years. The carcass of the female juvenile mammoth, nicknamed Yana, was discovered by local residents after a permafrost crater expanded, according to Russian state media outlet TASS. According to Cheprasov, the baby mammoth was about one-year-old when it died and weighed around 397 pounds [180 kilograms]. Researchers Gavril Novgorodov and Erel Struchkov pose for a picture next to the carcass of a baby mammoth, which is estimated to be over 50,000 years old. Gavril Novgorodov/ReutersBefore this baby mammoth was discovered, a total of six complete mammoth skeletons have been found in the world, five in Russia and one in Canada, according to Cheprasov.

Persons: Yana, ” Maksim Cheprasov, Cheprasov, “, ” Cheprasov, Gavril Novgorodov, Erel, ”, Anatoly Nikolaev, CNN’s Svitlana Vlasova Organizations: CNN, Mammoth Museum, Eastern Federal University, TASS, Reuters Locations: Siberian, Yakutia, Yakutsk, Russia, Canada

☆ The Arctic tundra is changing so fast that it is speeding up the climate crisis, top scientists say
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-14 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Arctic is rapidly changing from the climate crisis, with no "new normal," scientists warn. Wildfires and permafrost thaw are making the tundra emit more carbon than it absorbs. From Alaska to Siberia, the Arctic is changing so rapidly that there is no "normal" there now, scientists warn. AdvertisementThe Arctic tundra now releases more carbon than it naturally draws down from the sky, as wildfires burn down its trees and permafrost thaw releases potent gases from its soil. The increase in average temperatures is changing weather and landscapes in the Arctic, speeding up the climate crisis worldwide.

Persons: Jesse Allen, Mark Ralston, Brendan Rogers, Richard Spinrad Organizations: Data, NASA, Geological Survey, Getty, Oceanic, Administration, American Geophysical Union, Climate Research, Environmental Protection Agency, NOAA, Trump Locations: Alaska, Siberia, Quinhagak, AFP, Boston, San Diego

☆ Opinion | A Giant Crater in Siberia Is Belching Up Russia’s Past
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Sophie Pinkham | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Even the roads are buckling, cracking and collapsing, as if in a slow-motion earthquake. And outside a small town called Batagay, deep in the Siberian hinterland, a crater is rapidly opening up — known to locals as the gateway to the underworld. Already more than half a mile deep and about 3,000 feet wide, the Batagaika crater is growing as the ground beneath it melts. The land is belching up the past and swallowing the present — creating a yawning hole even more dizzying than the huge open-pit mines that already scar the Siberian landscape. In Alaska houses in rural villages are sinking into the ground as the shoreline falls into the sea.

Locations: Russia, Batagay, Canada, China, Tibetan, Alaska

☆ World's biggest permafrost crater in Russia’s Far East thaws as planet warms
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BATAGAI, Russia, July 21 (Reuters) - Stunning drone footage has revealed details of the Batagaika crater, a one kilometre long gash in Russia's Far East that forms the world's biggest permafrost crater. "We locals call it 'the cave-in,'" local resident and crater explorer Erel Struchkov told Reuters as he stood on the crater's rim. The "gateway to the underworld," as some locals in Russia's Sakha Republic also call it, has a scientific name: a mega-slump. "In future, with increasing temperatures and with higher anthropogenic pressure, we will see more and more of those mega-slumps forming, until all the permafrost is gone," Tananayev told Reuters. "With an increasing air temperature we can expect (the crater) will be expanding at a higher rate," he said.

Persons: Erel Struchkov, Nikita Tananayev, Tananayev, Struchkov, aren't, Lucy Papachristou, Andrew Osborn, David Holmes Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: BATAGAI, Russia, Russia's Sakha Republic, Yakutsk, Sakha

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