President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ordering the Russian government to work towards meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement to fight climate change, but disappointed activists by setting a goal they said would allow emissions to rise, Reuters reported.
Russia, the world’s fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has previously signalled...
Russia's Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Friday reported eruptive activities of the Karymsky volcano located in the country's Kamchatka Territory, including a 3.7-mile ash column, Sputnik reported.
"A moderate eruptive activity of the volcano continues. According to satellite data by KVERT, explosions sent ash up to 6 km ...
The Norilsk Nickel Company (Nornickel) will allocate 830 million rubles ($11 million) within 2021 to support southbound relocation of residents from Norilsk and Dudinka. The current program’s term expires in 2020, but Nornickel will continue the work, the company’s Vice President Andrei Grachev told TASS.
In 2011, Russia’s Ministry for...
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...
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will assist the inquiry into the massive pollution of the Pacific Ocean off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, the regional government said in a statement on its website on Friday, TASS reported.
"We agreed that WWF will join the scientific team studying the environmental incident...
Russia on Wednesday opened a criminal investigation to establish the cause of unexplained toxic pollution off its far eastern coast that has killed sea creatures and led to their carcasses being washed ashore, Reuters reported.
Greenpeace warned last week of an ecological disaster in waters off the Kamchatka region, a...
Conservation group WWF said on Monday that unexplained toxic pollution off Russia’s far eastern coast was likely caused by a highly soluble substance as officials played down the scale of the problem and suggested it was not man-made, Reuters reported.
Greenpeace raised the alarm last week over what it said...
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’s Norilsk Nickel estimates the environmental cost of a huge fuel spill in the Arctic in May is 21.4 billion rubles ($273 million), far less than an assessment by the country’s environment watchdog, which has begun court action, Reuters reported.
The spill released 21,000 tonnes of diesel into rivers 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...
