The number of coronavirus cases throughout Russia has increased from 50 to 63 in the past day. All the four new patients have visited coronavirus-affected countries in the recent two weeks, the coronavirus response headquarters said on Sunday, TASS reported.
"Four new coronavirus cases have been registered in Russia over...
Alexander Kozlov, Minister of Natural Resources, cited statistics from Rosgidromet Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring as evidence that Russian processes in global warming are 2.8 times quicker than those elsewhere.
Temperature increases in Russia are 2.5 times quicker than the world average, according to federal service experts, TASS reports.
In...
Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources estimated the damage to the environment caused by the fuel oil spill near the city of Vladimir in November last year at 32.5 mln rubles ($429,707), the agency said in a statement on its website on Monday.
According to the statement, the...
Officials in Russia are planning to rezone the country’s largest national park and one of the largest natural reserves in Europe to allow gold mining, in a move activists say could put all nature reserves here under threat.
The Yugyd Va national park in the Komi Republic in northwestern Russia,...
Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources said in a report last month that the country faces drought, mass flooding, hunger, and epidemics if climate change continues with its current pace, Bellona reports.
Swathes of the populace will be exposed to disease through contaminated drinking water as rising temperatures will contribute to pollution,...
Indian companies IREL (Erstwhile Indian Rare Earths Ltd) and KABIL (Khanij Bidesh India Ltd) are looking into rare-earth elements projects in Russia, the country’s Far East Investment and Export Agency has said, according to Interfax.
A Russian delegation presented perspective projects that could be implemented in the remote Far Eastern region and...
Russian investigators have begun a probe into potential seawater pollution in Kamchatka after reports that a large number of sea animals washed up dead on the shore, the regional branch of the Investigative Committee said on Saturday, Sputnik News reported.
"The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian...
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a decree approving rules of oil and petroleum products spill prevention and response. The document was posted on the official web portal of legal information on Saturday, TASS reported.
"Enclosed rules of organizing activities to prevent and respond to oil and petroleum products...
Russian mining companies are doing a better job at reporting their efforts to mitigate environmental impacts and protect their natural surroundings, says the 2019 Environmental Transparency Rating of Mining and Metals Companies Operating in Russia, published by the local chapter of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
According to WWF, this...
A Russian court has suspended the construction of a drinking water bottling plant at Lake Baikal in the Irkutsk Region until violations revealed during checks are remedied, Sibnet.ru reports.
The court has therefore granted a lawsuit filed by the West Baikal trans-regional environmental prosecutor's office against Akvasib, the company investing...
