Russia's forest service said there were nearly 300 wildfires blazing across the vast country's northern wilderness on Saturday, as it attempted to contain them with methods including explosives and cloud seeding, The Moscow Times reported.
Freakishly warm weather across large swathes of Siberia since January, combined with low soil moisture,...
In a first for the Russian Navy, an all-female navy crew carried out patrols on the Black Sea on Friday in preparation for Russia’s Navy Day celebrations later this month, Reuters reported.
The crew, on board a patrol boat, fulfilled a broad array of drills on their maiden voyage, simulating...
Russian firefighters have been seeding clouds to bring down rain over wildfires raging in Siberia, the authorities said on Friday, Reuters reported.
The Russian forestry agency said active work was underway to battle 158 forest fires covering 46,261 hectares as of Friday. Just a few days ago, that area was...
Pressure is mounting on Russian mining company Norilsk Nickel over an Arctic oil spill that has wiped about 17% off its share price, left it with a hefty compensation bill and exposed it to accusations of covering up the full extent of the damage, Reuters reported.
Nornickel, as it is...
Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) is disputing more than $2 billion in damages after a fuel spill which Russia’s environmental watchdog has said threatens unprecedented damage to the Arctic, Reuters reports.
Watchdog Rosprirodnadzor sent a request for “voluntary compensation” of almost 148 billion roubles ($2.1 billion) to Nornickel power...
Wild boars have been spotted in some Moscow parks, the official website of the capital’s mayor reported Sunday, as cited by The Moscow Times.
While the advisory note said the beasts would not attack a person for no reason they warned that the animals are dangerous and capable of causing...
Residents of the Moscow Region July 7–8 expect a thunderstorm, rain with hail and wind with gusts of up to 22 meters per second, according to the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia for the Moscow Region.
Rescuers advise to refrain from traveling and,...
An oil spill north of Moscow has caused a 1,000-fold increase in pollution levels at a reservoir that supplies water to Russia’s capital, the Federal Water Resources Agency said Monday.
The agency, Rosvodoresursy, said it first discovered petroleum products on June 25 in a river that flows into the Khimki...
A fire broke out in the Internatsionalny mine (owned by ALROSA) in the Mirny district, the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations informed. According to the report, the fire was caused by the loading and unloading machine. There are 98 people in the mine, they are being evacuated....
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...
