Collections of Hygrocybe subsect. Squamulosae from N. Finland, N. Norway, Arctic Canada and Arctic Russia (Polar Urals)

Methanogenic archaea in Arctic soils from Spitsbergen, Norway (78°N)

Arctic Health in Russia

I t is often pointed out that the Russian Federation accounts for almost half of the circumpolar world. Yet information on health issues in Arctic Russia is not widely available in the English language. The International Journal of Circumpolar Health considers its special responsibility to publish articles about Russia and written by our colleagues in Russia. In 2012, of 83 published articles (...

Quaternary.correlations in Arctic Canada

In the Hudson Bay/James Bay Lowlands, along the coasts of Banks Island, and along the eastern coast of Baffin Island are continuous and extensive sections in Quaternary sediments. These sections are rich in marine fossils, buried peats, and soils and contain a wide variety of glaciagenic sediments together with glacial marine units and littoral deposits. Lake muds are also fairly common. All th...

15 Polar regions ( Arctic and Antarctic )

Pliocene warmth, polar amplification, and stepped Pleistocene cooling recorded in NE Arctic Russia.

Understanding the evolution of Arctic polar climate from the protracted warmth of the middle Pliocene into the earliest glacial cycles in the Northern Hemisphere has been hindered by the lack of continuous, highly resolved Arctic time series. Evidence from Lake El'gygytgyn, in northeast (NE) Arctic Russia, shows that 3.6 to 3.4 million years ago, summer temperatures were ~8°C warmer than today,...