As air pollution issues have long become an everyday struggle, officials in Kazakhstan are partnering with a Chinese manufacturer of commercial vehicles, Yutong, to get rid of traditional diesel buses in Kazakhstan’s streets, Caspian News reports.
Two cities in Central Asia’s largest country, Shymkent and Atyrau, will put into operation...
Toxic fuel from a massive leak in Siberia may have already reached the Arctic Ocean despite officials' claims of successful cleanup efforts, a Russian environmental activist said as he called on the international community to declare the accident a global disaster, The Moscow Times reported.
More than 21,000 metric tons of diesel...
Three people were killed after an avalanche struck a ski resort near the Arctic city of Norilsk late on Friday, the local branch of Russia’s emergency services ministry said, Reuters reports.
The bodies of two adults and a young child were found as part of a search and rescue mission...
A 5.0-magnitude earthquake has been recorded by seismologists in the Pacific Ocean off the southeastern coast of Kamchatka, the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences said, as reported by Sputnik.
"A seismic event with a magnitude of 5.0 occurred on Monday evening local...
Russia could temporarily restrict lumber exports to China due to the issues of forest reproduction and destruction, the country’s Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dmitry Kobylkin said during the ‘government hour’ at the Federation Council (upper house of parliament) on Wednesday, according to Realnoe Vremya.
"China is the main...
The presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, held a telephone conversation, during which the latter offered help in fighting forest fires in Siberia, the Kremlin said in a press release, CNBC reported.
Putin sincerely thanked Trump for "such attentive attitude and offer of help...
Two people injured in the fire at a private hospice in Krasnogorsk (Moscow Region) have died in hospital, according to TASS. The death toll from the fire has risen to 11.
"Tonight, the death toll from the tragedy that took place and a private living facility on Tenistaya Street in...
A Russian mining giant behind an enormous Arctic fuel spill last month said Sunday it had suspended workers at a metals plant who were responsible for pumping wastewater into nearby tundra, The Moscow Times reported.
Norilsk Nickel cited a "flagrant violation of operating rules" in a statement announcing it had...
According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, direct damage from the flames ravaging Yakutia already totals over 1 billion rubles ($13.5 million). There have been a total of 1,227 wildfires in the province since the start of the fire season, compared to 1,503 at the same time in 2020, TASS...
Russia has claimed new slices of the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean in two fresh submissions to the United Nations, The Moscow Times reports.
According to its March 31 submissions, Russia is seeking to define the outer limits of its continental shelf to include the Gakkel Ridge, the Lomonosov...
