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Climate change continues to disrupt the Arctic, driving a cascade of impacts, including the loss of snow and extraordinary wildfires in northern Russia in 2020.
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Research briefs
MIPT researchers have created a model of landslide-induced tsunamis that accounts for the initial location of the landslide body.
PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd
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Scientists can now better understand and predict the most extreme space weather events that directly affect the operation of engineering systems in space and on Earth.
EurekAlert
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The recent prolonged Siberia heat from January to June 2020 would have been almost impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change.
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Documents and publications

The present report investigates the role of human-induced climate change in the likelihood and intensity of both of these events: a) the persistent warm anomalies across the Siberian region (60–75ºN, 60–180ºE) from January to June 2020, and b) the

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Russia's sprawling Siberia region is being transformed by climate change that has brought with it warmer temperatures, forest fires and moths.
France 24
Documents and publications

The problem of increasing the efficiency of the hydrometeorological provision of the population and industrial enterprises is directly related to the digital transformation of support facilities and the National Hydrometeorological Services themselves. It

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With weather-related disasters costing Russia between U.S. $1-2 billion annually, the World Bank's RosHydromet-2 project aims to strengthen the infrastructure and systems delivering weather, climate and hydrological data. The project also seeks to modernize observation networks, and strengthen institutions and regulations.
World Bank, the

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