Using GIS, modelling and other tech to track reindeer patterns

Abstract: At the start of the twenty-first century, the historically rooted sector of pastoral reindeer husbandry in European Russia entered a period of rapid transformation driven by both environmental and social dynamics. Environmental shifts associated with the climatic reconfiguration of Arctic ecosystems, evaluations of the likely consequences of the explosive acceleration of regional industrial development,…

Human fatprints in the Arctic snow

Anthropogenic pollution of the Arctic atmosphere is of great interest due to the vulnerability of the Arctic ecosystems, as well as the processes of global transport and industries under cold climate conditions. Researchers from Lomonosov State University (Moscow) and Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University brought the first results on snow pollution in the least explored…