Russia has not been informed of any emergency situation in regard to the nuclear particles detected over the Baltic Sea, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, Reuters reports.
“We have an absolutely advanced radiation levels safety monitoring system and there are no emergency alarms,” Peskov told reporters. “We...
Russia is concerned over Iran's decision to start enriching uranium at its Natanz plant with new advanced IR-4 centrifuges, and it calls both on Tehran and on Washington to exercise restraint, deputy foreign minister Sergey Ryabkov.
"We take it seriously, we are concerned. We have been calling and we keep...
Russia has managed to contain a massive diesel spill into a river in the Arctic, a spokeswoman for the emergencies ministry told AFP on Friday, The Moscow Times reported.
"We have stopped the spread of the petroleum products," the spokeswoman for the task force in charge of the accident clean-up...
Thousands of protestors have rallied in Russia's the northwestern Komi Republic against the construction of a new landfill in the neighboring Arkhangelsk region, local news agency Komi Inform reported.
The demonstrators gathered in Michurin Park in the Komi capital, Syktyvkar, on Sunday, protesting what they called Moscow’s "colonial politics" and...
Environmental global problems should not limit the economies of individual countries, and therefore, the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) can create their own bank of climate data and digital initiatives, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting of the leaders of the organization.
“Therefore, we propose...
A crew of 17 from a Murmansk-based fishing trawler are feared dead after their vessel sank in the Barents Sea near Novaya Zemlya, an isolated archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, RT reported.
Another ship managed to rescue two of the 19 on board. A distress call from the trawler Onega...
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s request to fully prohibit the export of round timber starting in 2022 has split the timber industry into two camps, TASS reported citing Kommersant. If major corporations, which often face the lack of raw materials, consider the measure useful, those companies that don’t have processing...
In an emotional plea to Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, residents of a highly polluted mining city in central Russia are begging to be admitted to the country as environmental refugees, Radio Liberty reported.
Coal dust from nearby mines and factories has blanketed their homes and made their lives...
Russian eco-activists will end more than two years of protests against a controversial garbage dump that would have seen tons of waste shipped from Moscow to northern Russia after its construction was halted, The Moscow Times reports.
Russians nationwide have protested against plans to ship Moscow’s trash to remote regions...
The Norilsk Nickel Company (Nornickel) over five years will allocate 2 billion rubles ($25 million) for support of the North’s low-numbered indigenous peoples on the Taimyr Peninsula, the company’s Vice President Andrei Grachev told TASS.
"We plan about 2 billion rubles for support of the North’s low-numbered indigenous peoples over...
