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NEWS ABOUT: Siberia

Siberia stories: 16 news summaries

 The World's 7 Most 
 Remote Destinations 

Now abandoned, these places were once home to humans

Sep 6, 09 12:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Forget the Seven Wonders of the World. WebUrbanist takes a look at seven places that make you wonder why people ever settled there:
  • St. Kilda, Scotland: Although this archipelago is known for 16-foot waves and wind speeds up to 130mph, humans called it home for 2,000 years—
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California • Scotland • Siberia • seven wonders • Soviet gulag • abandonment

 Putin Trip Is 
 Tough-Guy 
 Photo Op 

Official pics show Russian PM swimming, riding bareback in Siberia

Aug 4, 09 4:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Vladimir Putin spent his vacation in southern Siberia swimming, climbing trees, and riding a horse bareback—all while shirtless. Though state news agencies portrayed the Russian prime minister’s trip as a vacation, the series of tough-guy photographs that emerged make it hard not to think he had a motive... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • Siberia • Kremlin • vacation • prime minister



 UFO Saved Earth 
 in Suicide Mission: 
 Russian Scientist 

He points to mysterious crystals as proof

May 27, 09 2:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Alien spacecraft crashed into a giant meteor 100 years ago to stop it from hitting Earth, according to a Russian scientist. Most scientists say an exploding meteorite caused 1908’s Tunguska event, which flattened 80 million trees across 100 miles. But researcher Yuri Labvin says crystals found in sparsely populated... More »

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Russia • Siberia • space • UFO • aliens • meteor • Yuri Labvin



 5-Year-Old 
 Russian Girl 
 Raised by 
 Cats, Dogs 

Russian, 5, was locked in unheated flat with animals

May 27, 09 2:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Russian police have removed a feral girl from the home where she was raised by cats and dogs, the Times of London reports. Natasha, 5, who mimics the animals rather than speaking, has never been outside her family's unheated apartment. Her grandparents and father also lived there, but she had... More »

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Russia • crime • Siberia • child abuse • dog • child • cats • Mowgli Syndrome • feral child

(Newser) - A nearly perfectly preserved 37,000-year-old baby mammoth is giving up tantalizing secrets about her species, scientists report. The creature, dubbed Lyuba by researchers, still sports clumps of hair and eyelashes, according to the Telegraph. Scientists have been able to examine stomach contents and the mineral makeup of the bones... More »

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Siberia • extinction • species • extinct • woolly mammoth • prehistoric • prehistoric mammals • Mammoth • ice age

GLOSSIES

 Jagr Happy, Rich in Siberia 

Former NHL star finds 'real freedom' playing (for big money) in outpost of Omsk

Dec 7, 08 6:38 PM CST
(Newser) - Jaromir Jagr is far from New York, playing hockey in Siberia, yet he tells the Atlantic he’s happy in the outpost of Omsk. Indeed, his $11 million salary helps cushion the blow of not being re-signed by the Rangers. And "in Russia, you have the real freedom, which... More »

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Russia • NHL • Pittsburgh Penguins • Siberia • New York Rangers • hockey • Washington Capitals • Jaromir Jagr

Kremlin Foe Denied Bid
for Parole

Oil tycoon, Putin opponent remains in Siberian prison

Aug 22, 08 10:40 AM CDT
(AP) - A Russian court has rejected Mikhail Khodorkovsky's request for parole on Friday, ordering the jailed oil tycoon to serve out the remainder of his sentence in a ruling his lawyer called politically motivated. Khodorkovsky, the former head of Yukos oil company and once Russia's richest man, was sentenced to 8... More »

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Russia • prison • Siberia • parole • political prisoner • Yukos • Mikhail Khodorkovsky

 Eclipse Draws 15K to Siberia 

Thousands flock to Russia for rare solar spectacle despite threat of rain

Jul 31, 08 11:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Prospects of rare total solar eclipse have drawn thousands of sky-watchers to the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, where the moon’s passage between the earth and sun will create 140 seconds of darkness at 5:45 pm local time today. Hotels in the city—Russia’s third-largest—are fully booked,... More »

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China • Russia • astronomy • Canada • Siberia • Mongolia • solar eclipse • Novosibirsk

Thawing Arctic Could Set Off Methane Climate Bomb

Billions of tons of strong greenhouse gas lie on ocean floor

Apr 17, 08 4:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Climate scientists meeting this week in Vienna are contemplating a terrible prospect—the release of billions of tons of methane gas from the Arctic Ocean, Der Spiegel reports. Methane, 20 times more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, lies frozen in gas hydrates on the ocean floor, but rising... More »

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climate change • greenhouse gases • global warming • Siberia • atmosphere • methane • Arctic Sea • carbon emissions

Scientists ID Catastrophic Climate Change 'Tipping Zones'

9 danger signs that disaster is inevitable

Feb 5, 08 4:34 AM CST
(Newser) - Scientists have identified nine danger zones where global warming could be pushed past the point of no return within years, the Independent reports. The scenarios include the melting of ice in the Arctic and Antarctic, the collapse of the Indian and West African monsoons, and the death of forests in... More »

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climate change • greenhouse gases • global warming • Canada • Siberia • Arctic • Antarctica • monsoon • global weather • forests • Amazon.com

Asteroid On Path to Smash Mars

Big rock has a good chance of striking on Jan. 30

Dec 20, 07 8:17 PM CST
(Newser) - A big asteroid has a decent chance of blasting into Mars next month with potentially devastating consequences for the Red Planet, the LA Times reports. Back on earth, meanwhile, astronomers say that being able to watch an asteroid impact for the first time would be a "scientific bonanza."... More »

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Mars • Siberia • asteroid

Putin's Russian Undressing

On Siberian fishing trip, Prez celebrates Olympic bid by showing off Grecian pecs

Aug 14, 07 11:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vladimir Putin purged his shirt yesterday during a fishing jaunt in southern Siberia. The Russian president was celebrating the International Olympic Committee's election of Sochi, a Black Sea resort, to host the 2014 Winter Games. With him was Monaco's Prince Albert II—coincidentally enough a member of the International Olympic... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • Siberia • Sochi • Black Sea • fishing • Prince Albert II • Monaco • 2014 Olympics • Yenisey River • International Olympic Committee

Russians Flock to New Religions

Followers of the 'new' Jesus head to Siberia to build a town

Jul 17, 07 3:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Is a former traffic cop named Sergei Tropov really the reincarnation of Jesus? Five thousand devoted followers of the Church of the Last Testament believe so, and they've relocated to a remote corner of the Siberian wilderness, where they are constructing a new town founded on the 18-year-old religion. The... More »

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Russia • Soviet Union • Siberia • religion • church • faith • Sergei Tropov • Church of the Last Testament • worshippers

At Least 36 Killed in Siberian Coal Mine Blast

Mine is just 25 miles from scene of March explosion that killed 110

May 24, 07 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - A methane explosion in a Siberian coal mine killed at least 36 people today,  just 25 miles from the mine—operated by the same company—where 110 people died from a blast in March. Inspectors had attempted twice to shut down the mine for safety violations, but were rebuffed... More »

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Russia • Siberia • safety • coal mining • explosion • mine

Russia Will Hunt Polar
Bears to Save Them

Siberian officials hope legalizing
hunting will end poaching

Apr 16, 07 8:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia is lifting a fifty-year old ban on hunting polar bears, expressly to save the endangered species from extinction. Poaching has been endemic in Siberia since the injunction, but it's increased since shrinking sea ice has forced bears to search for food on shore, making them easier to kill. More »

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climate change • Russia • endangered species • global warming • Siberia • poaching • polar bear • species • animal

Global Warming:
Who Wins?

Mar 21, 07 10:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Global warming is a looming planetary disaster, but there will be winners along with the losers, writes Brookings Institute Fellow Gregg Easterbrook. While arable regions turn into arid wasteland and coastal communities sink beneath rising oceans, climate change could trigger a real estate and mineral resources boom in balmier Alaska,... More »

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climate change • energy • environment • drought • global warming • Siberia • Greenland • sea level • green energy

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