According to a collaborative research by two European climate think tanks, the world's first carbon border tax planned by the European Union is expected to impact Russia the most while leaving Chinese commerce relatively unaffected, Reuters reports.
In July, the EU proposed a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), or CO2...
Interfax reported Tuesday that Russian officials have declared an interregional state of emergency as difficult-to-control forest fires threaten the country's top-secret nuclear weapons development site.
Since early August, wildfires have burned in Nizhny Novgorod and the adjacent republic of Mordovia, both around 500 kilometers east of Moscow, The Moscow Times...
Large reserves of fresh water have been found under the bottom of the Sea of Azov, Russian media report.
Experts now determine the quality of this water, the presence of solid particles in it, and "chemistry in general," said the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, in an interview with the...
Moscow has improved its position in the fDi Intelligence analytics company's international Tech Cities of the future, updating its position on four lines and ranking 14th among 76 European cities, according to the information available on Tuesday on the mayor's and municipal administrations official website, TASS reports.
The ranking assesses...
According to satellite data, smoke from wildfires burning across Russia's biggest and coldest area reached the North Pole for the first time in recorded history last week, Moscow Times writes.
According to the European Union's Copernicus satellite monitoring program, forest fires in the Siberian republic of Sakha (Yakutia), driven by...
In a post on its Telegram channel, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI, St. Petersburg) announced that the Arctic-2021 global expedition had left Murmansk aboard its Akademik Tryoshnikov diesel-electric research vessel. The expedition will carry out complex studies of Arctic nature in a changing climate, TASS reports.
Aboard the Akademik...
According to a source, the European Commission (EC) has technically prolonged antidumping penalties against Russian and Chinese steel that were set to expire on August 5, according to TASS on Wednesday.
"Antidumping duties on Russia and China will stay in force until the review procedure for these measures is finished....
The President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, according to Turkey's Communications Directorate, Daily Sabah reported.
Per a statement, Erdogan praised Putin for allocating five firefighting planes and three additional helicopters to help Turkey battle wildfires throughout the nation.
According to the...
Russia's national fishing department announced on Thursday that it has filed a claim against Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest nickel and palladium supplier, for $801 million in damages related to an Arctic fuel leakage last year.
After 20,000 tons of petrochemicals that leaked out of a power plant in the industrial...
According to the RBC news website, the European Union's planned carbon border tax may cost Russian exporters with a significant carbon footprint at least 1.1 billion euros per year, the largest penalty of any country.
The border fee, suggested as part of the EU's grand goals to combat climate change...
