Hundreds of wildfires are torching huge swaths of Siberia after an unusually hot and dry summer left forests primed to burn, Vox reported.
The blazes, likely ignited by lightning and strengthened by strong winds, have already burned more than 15,000 square miles, an area larger than the state of Maryland....
Fossil fuel-rich Russia may not be known as a leader on climate action - but in the country’s remote far east, authorities have launched an unexpected experiment: an effort to try out carbon trading and reach net-zero planet-heating emissions by 2025.
The government of the Russian island region of Sakhalin,...
A fire that broke out on Thursday at a weapons testing range in northern Russia killed two people, briefly raised radiation levels and prompted the authorities to prohibit shipping and sailing in parts of the White Sea for a month, according to officials and news media reports, The New...
Russian President Vladimir Putin reminded US climate envoy John Kerry on Wednesday that Moscow and Washington had a similar interest in combating climate change, the Kremlin claimed, in a rare area of agreement between the foes.
"The climate crisis is one of the areas where Russia and the US have...
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 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...
The Project 21180M latest icebreaker Yevpaty Kolovrat will enter service with the Russian Navy in 2022, the Navy Main Command’s press office announced on Friday, TASS reported.
"The Project 21180M icebreaker Yevpaty Kolovrat under construction at the Almaz Shipyard in St. Petersburg is planned to enter service with the Navy...
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...
Waste management is one of the growing environmental problems of Russia’s Moscow Region, as local authorities look to lessons from the European Union’s expertise in an effort to eliminate huge waste dumps inherited from the Soviet era, New Europe reports.
“In Russia, nobody paid serious attention to waste management...
The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources has produced a draft bill titled "On Amendments to the Administrative Code," which proposes introducing responsibility for failure to comply with required standards for quoting polluting emissions.
According to the paper, people who refuse to submit information for completing summary air pollution estimates may...
