Concepts and practices traveled across the empire, from the Caucasus to Alaska. Iasak referred to the special regime of taxation, a tribute in fur. First recorded in the late 16th century in the Southern steppes, “taking amanats” was practiced by all sides during the long Caucasian wars ...
The reason that the massive oil fields in Alaska are not expoited or even admitted to the public is because energy is the new currency and its in the World Revolutionary Movements interests to keep America weak. As the International Bankers destroy the American economy a new currency will be...
We encourage studies focusing on the transformation of local herbal practices in relation to various ethnic and geographic contexts to document current practices and to estimate the persistence of traditional uses and their transformation over time in the context of differing habitats. We also encourage...
Selecting the right location for a den during the breeding season is a type of habitat selection in the Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) that is likely to affec
A good indicator of the impact of mining on the Indigirka River basin is the relation between the mean annual discharge and sediment concentration and its change over several decades. For example, for most stations in this region, ten-year relationships show a gradual decline in the diagram (...
in relation to the rest of the Northern Hemisphere. South America is likely to escape the full brunt of the coming crisis, though Venezuela is already deluged in its own crisis. Much of this I rehearsed in that 2010 blog post. I see no reason to retreat from this falling domino scenario...
aA polar bear swims underwater in the St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in Quebec on Oct. 31. According to Environment Canada, Canada is home to around 15,000 of the estimated 20,000 polar bears in the world. The United States (Alaska), Russia, Greenland and Norway are the other four countries...
ALASKAAlong the east Atlantic migratory flyway, goose and swan species rely on the availability of suitable coastal habitats as staging sites during migration and for breeding. Especially for the Russian part of the flyway, detailed descriptions of these habitats in relation to use by herbivores are...
Akinin, V.V., Layer, P., Benowitz, J., and Ntaflos, Th., Age and composition of final stage of volcanism in Okhotsk-Chukotka volcanic belt: An example from the Ola Plateau (Okhotsk segment), inProceedings of the International Conference on Arctic Margins VI, pp. Fairbanks, Alaska,2011,...
A couple of days ago I wrote aboutAlaska Airlines’ new flight from Anchorage to Adak via Cold Bay, and that had me thinking about Russia. That also made me realize that I’ve never dedicated a post to what I consider to be the world’s most interesting transpacific flight (though I ...