Narrative Matters: Fighting not drowning – facing a harsh climate future with wisdom, hope and courage

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wiseman
Keyword(s):  
Harsh Climate

Lichens of the Oasis Molodyozhnyi and adjacent areas (Enderby Land, Antarctic)

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 167-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. P. Andreev
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Water ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Water Ice ◽  
Buellia Frigida ◽  
Antarctic Continent ◽  
Harsh Climate ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
First Time ◽  
Lichen Flora

Lichen flora and vegetation in the vicinity of the Russian base «Molodyozhnaya» (Enderby Land, Antarctica) were investigated in 2010–2011 in details for the first time. About 500 specimens were collected in 100 localities in all available ecotopes. The lichen flora is the richest in the region and numbers 39 species (21 genera, 11 families). The studied vegetation is very poor and sparse, but typical for coastal oases of the Antarctic continent. The poorness is caused by the extremely harsh climate conditions, insufficient availability of liquid water, ice-free land, and high insolation levels. The dominant and most common lichens are Rinodina olivaceobrunnea, Amandinea punctata, Candelariella flava, Physcia caesia, Caloplaca tominii, Lecanora expectans, Caloplaca ammiospila, Lecidea cancriformis, Pseudephebe minuscula, Lecidella siplei, Umbilicaria decussata, Buellia frigida, Lecanora fuscobrunnea, Usnea sphacelata, Lepraria and Buellia spp.

Planning for Reuse. Developing a Strategy for the Northern Territory, Australia

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 31-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Burgess
Keyword(s):  
Potable Water ◽  
Cost Management ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Sewage Effluent ◽  
Cost Benefits ◽  
Management Procedures ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Harsh Climate ◽  
The Cost

A harsh climate, extended dry periods and relatively expensive water resources underly the potential for effluent reuse in the Northern Territory, Australia. The cost of supplying potable water and the potential offsetting effects of utilising sewage effluent are reviewed. The need to firmly establish the true cost to the community of different supply options is identified. Major cost benefits accrue where reuse will enable deferment of either significant potable source augmentation or sewage treatment works upgrading and where horticultural prospects are good at a reuse site close to the treatment works. An overall strategy plan for increasing the potential of reuse is described. This plan includes firm cost management procedures, marketing activities, appropriate land planning measures and a commitment to research and development.

Food supplementation and predation risk in harsh climate: interactive effects on abundance and body condition of tit species

Oikos ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 126 (6) ◽  
pp. 863-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Morosinotto ◽  
Alexandre Villers ◽  
Rauno Varjonen ◽  
Erkki Korpimäki
Keyword(s):  
Predation Risk ◽  
Body Condition ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Food Supplementation ◽  
Harsh Climate

scholarly journals Problems of Russian heat supply and ways of their solution

2020 ◽  
Vol 219 ◽  
pp. 02003
Author(s):  
Valery Stennikov ◽  
Andrey Penkovskii
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Heat Supply ◽  
Social Sector ◽  
Target Model ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Harsh Climate

Heat supply in Russia, most of which is located in a territory with a harsh climate, is the most important social sector of the economy, largely determining the country’s energy security. Over the past period of reforming in the heat supply many problems have accumulated. This is due, first of all, to the lack of effective mechanisms for managing their functioning and development. At the same time, there is every reason to believe that the target model of the heat market adopted by the Government of the Russian Federation not only does not eliminate these problems, but further aggravates the situation

scholarly journals Specifics of COVID-19 in Siberia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-41
Author(s):  
Dmitrii Tikhonov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
Development Patterns ◽  
Harsh Climate

The geographical area of Siberia is about 13,100,000 sq. km, which is more than the territories of the United States, China, Canada, Brazil, Australia, and India, but its total population as of January 1, 2021 is only 31,140,697 people [1]. Due to its harsh climate, many diseases, including infectious ones, have their own specific development patterns in this territory.

L’Antartide è veramente un "awful place"? I caratteri ambientali del continente più freddo della Terra

2012 ◽  
pp. 29-46
Author(s):  
Claudio Smiraglia
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystems ◽  
South Pole ◽  
The Past ◽  
Unique Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Antarctic Continent ◽  
Harsh Climate ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Antarctic

The Antarctic continent is certainly made an "awful" place by its harsh climate: in the past, explorers and researchers endured terrible hardships and the climate remains a challenge today, in spite of the many improvements in knowledge and technology. The Antarctic may be termed "the continent of the extremes", as it occupies an area unlike any other on earth. It is the farthest and most inaccessible and isolated continent; the most regular because of its rounded shape, with the South Pole at the centre; the coldest continent, with temperatures falling to -90°C; the driest (with an average of 130 mm of precipitation); the windiest, the highest, the most glacialized (it contains 91% of the volume of the earth’s ice). It also displays the most monotonous landscapes and presents the greatest contrast between marine and terrestrial ecosystems. But the Antarctic is also "extreme" because it is the least populated continent, with no indigenous population at all, while its few settlements (consisting in scientific bases) are concentrated on the coast; it is the only place that does not belong to one nation, but to all the world; it is the place where unique information on the past, present and future of humankind is revealed.

Specific features of fat-soluble vitamins in the indigenous and administrative population of the Far North

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-16
Author(s):  
V. I. Korchin ◽  
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L. N. Bikbulatova ◽  
T. Ya. Korchina ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Vitamin A ◽  
The Body ◽  
Antioxidant Vitamins ◽  
Technogenic Pollution ◽  
Far North ◽  
Northern Territories ◽  
Harsh Climate ◽  
Fat Soluble Vitamins ◽  
Nenets Autonomous

In recent decades, interest in the study of the content of fat-soluble antioxidant vitamins among residents of the northern territories of Russia has not weakened, which is associated with the transformation of the diet in a harsh climate, a negative ecological situation resulting from the technogenic pollution of the biosphere with various toxicants, and urbanization of the environment. In recent decades, interest in the study of fat-soluble antioxidant vitamins among residents of the northern territories of Russia has not weakened, which is due to the transformation of the diet in a harsh climate, a negative environmental situation that arose as a result of technogenic pollution of the biosphere with various toxicants. Аim. Conduct a comparative analysis of the content vitamins A, D, E in indigenous and alien populations, living on the territory of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Material and methods. The study involved 185 males of working age (31.3 ± 12.2 years), permanently residing in the territory of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The study participants were divided into 2 groups: the control group (97 representatives of the newcomer population) and the main group (88 people from the ethnic population: Nenets, Khanty). In all examined individuals, vitamins A and E were determined in the blood by the fluorometric method, and the concentration of hydroxyvitamin D – 25 (OH) D3 was determined using the chemiluminescent method. Results. In the course of a comparative analysis of the content of the studied vitamins in the blood, it was found that the average values of vitamin A in the newcomer population were in the range of optimal values, while the provision with vitamins D and E was 1.4 and 1.1 times lower than the minimum. permissible physiological values, respectively. The opposite picture was observed in the aboriginal population, who had a pronounced deficiency of only vitamin A. Conclusion. The results obtained indicate the presence of intergroup features in the content of fat-soluble vitamins in the body of the population of the Far North, which requires a corresponding correction of the diet and the development of a set of preventive measures aimed at improving the ecology of the environment.

The Cost of Civil War

1652 ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 171-214
Author(s):  
David Parrott
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
French Population ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
French Foreign Policy ◽  
Harsh Climate ◽  
Military Activity ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact

This chapter takes an analytical approach to the question of first how civil war undermined the earlier achievements of French foreign policy, and then how armies and their destructiveness greatly worsened the impact of the harsh climate conditions of the years since 1648. It examines in particular the impact that a winter campaign fought across France had on the established means by which troops and their commanders replenished their resources during the winter quartering of troops in the provinces. The falls of Dunkirk, Casale-Monferrato, and Barcelona are each examined in terms of growing resource scarcity, demoralization, and the inability to organize adequate relief for the besieged garrisons. The impact of successive harsh winters and wet, poor summers is then considered, showing how even without civil war the French population would have suffered intensely under the impact of three successive poor harvests. However, the destructiveness of the troops, both to secure their own survival and as a deliberate military policy to deprive enemy forces of support, hugely worsened the situation. The chapter proposes that at least 25 per cent of the population died in the areas of intense or regular military activity, and that the impact of the destruction persisted well into the subsequent decade.

scholarly journals IGCP 272 - Late Palaeozoic and Early Mesozoic circum-Pacific events and their global correlation

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 85-85
Author(s):  
J. M. Dickins
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Upper Permian ◽  
Triassic Boundary ◽  
Early Mesozoic ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Late Palaeozoic ◽  
Global Correlation ◽  
Harsh Climate

IGCP 203 - Permo-Triassic events of eastern Tethys and their intercontinental correlation - focussed on the Permian-Triassic boundary sequences and in particular there was a consensus that the distinctive biological changes were associated with strong sea-level and tectonic change, strong volcanic activity and a harsh climate. These factors were connected with an important change in the environment and with the exception perhaps of the climate, reflected deep-seated changes within the earth. The project also resulted in improving the physical understanding of the sequences and their biostratigraphy and correlation.IGCP 272 was developed, and was approved in 1988, to apply these results to understanding the Late Palaeozoic and Early Mesozoic and was focussed on the Pacific as integration around this region seemed to offer especially fruitful possibilities.Working group meetings up to the end of 1991 have been held in Australia (Newcastle and Hobart), New Zealand (Dunedin), South America (Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires) and North America (Washington). Meetings are planned in North America, Japan, Eastern Siberia or Thailand and western Europe (France-Spain-Austria).Special cooperation has developed with the Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic Subcommissions of IUGS and with IGCP 214 - Global Bio-events. Using the more exact time correlations developed it has now been possible to show that major geological and biological events (of different levels of significance) are associated with major boundaries already recognized in the World Standard Stratigraphical Time Scale. These comprise the Carboniferous-Permian, the mid-Permian (twofold subdivision, the Permian-Triassic (already recognized in earlier work), the Lower-Middle and Middle-Upper Triassic and the Triassic-Jurassic boundaries.A special achievement of the project has been to show the similar significance of the Midian-Dzhulfian boundary within the Upper Permian but corresponding closely to the traditional Lower-Upper Permian of China and the Middle-Upper Permian of Japan.Although there are also other events at levels which have not been investigated by the project, those outlined all seem to reflect important changes within the earth.

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